Buenos Aires. Just days before boarding a private flight to Mexico, Argentine President Javier Milei cancelled what was to be his 14th international tour, following the publication of an opinion poll by Zuban Córdoba that revealed the anger caused in the population by his continuous trips paid for with taxpayers’ money. Milei had planned to attend the conference of the Conservative Political Action Party, organized by Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui.
With each trip Milei makes, the Casa Rosada’s communications emphasize that Argentina becomes “a beacon in the world,” but on the street the only thing that shines is anger, underlined the newspaper Página/12.
This was illustrated by the study by Zuban Córdoba, which asked Argentines to “measure” the seriousness of a list of current issues. The first “most serious” case was the increase in poverty. Next came the increase in unemployment, the arrest of a deputy accused of being part of a pedophile network and the economic crisis. Then came the president’s trips paid for by public funds.
According to public information requested by Página/12, three of the most expensive tours were those that the libertarian undertook with a personal or strictly partisan political objective. In just three of the 13 trips he made, Milei spent more than half a million dollars: the first of the visits to Madrid, from May 16 to 20, the fourth trip to the United States, based in Los Angeles, California, and one of his trips to Miami from April 12 to 16.
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– 2024-08-24 08:33:16
