After the assembly, when requested what he considered Mr. Milei’s journey plans, Mr. Blinken stated, “That’s completely as much as him.” He added that he “couldn’t be extra happy, on behalf of President Biden, with the assembly we simply had.”
The US has lots to realize in Argentina, specifically the nation’s huge reserves of strategic minerals, together with lithium, which is a serious part in batteries for electrical vehicles. It was a subject of the talks between Mr. Milei and Mr. Blinken on Friday.
However the friendship Mr. Milei is aiming to forge with Mr. Biden is considerably difficult by his separate bid to spice up his international picture as a warrior in opposition to the trendy left, which he says is poisoning the West with socialism and social justice activism.
His speech slamming socialism and feminism this yr on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, went viral after the billionaire Elon Musk shared it with thousands and thousands of followers.
Mr. Milei opposes “social justice” as a result of it goals “to assist somebody by taking away from another person,” Diana Mondino, Argentina’s international minister, stated at a information convention with Mr. Blinken on Friday. She stated that even when Mr. Milei and Mr. Biden don’t agree on the whole lot, they will nonetheless get alongside. “We dwell in a really difficult world,” she stated.