US EditionMilei Reportedly ‘Not Interested’ in Meeting Mercosur Peers
ARGENTINA, JUL 3 – Javier Milei warned Argentina might exit Mercosur to pursue freer trade policies, citing current restrictions as harmful to economic growth in South America.
- Argentine President Javier Milei urged Mercosur partners to pursue greater trade openness at a summit in Buenos Aires in 2025.
- Milei aims to advance his plans for fundamental change in Argentina despite opposition from Mercosur allies and holding a narrow margin in Congress.
- He warned he would push for a more flexible partnership or act unilaterally if the bloc resists, framing Mercosur as caught in "destructive inertia."
- Milei claimed his economic reforms ended chronic deficits and cut inflation, while critics lamented high prices for staples like empanadas; he dismissed critics as "econo-loudmouths."
- Milei’s approach implies potential shifts in Mercosur’s future and Argentine policy, but internal opposition and questions about his authoritarian tendencies persist.
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The head of state asked to leave behind “the iron curtain” and “destructive inertia.” If that did not happen, he said Argentina would ask to relax the conditions of unity. He also claimed for the gendarme kidnapped in Venezuela and thanked the support for Malvinas.
It was ten minutes to 10, when the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, stepped up the stairs of the Chancellery with an agile step, although he stopped at a few steps. Contrary, and together with his chancellor Mauro Vieira, waited a couple of minutes, until an inconvenience with the accreditation of his photographer was solved. Chancellor Gerardo Werthein went to look for the anteala, while the official transmission signal was inter…
The President called for the flexibility of the regional bloc and called for "reforms for commercial freedom." He left the threat that Argentina would abandon Mercosur's rules in the air.
President Javier Milei held today a series of meetings with leaders of the region and Central America, at the end of the Mercosur Summit that he led this morning and in which he called for greater flexibility of the bloc and warned that, if the group does not advance in that line, Argentina will do it "alone." One of the meetings was the Uruguayan president, Yamandú Orsi, heir of the Broad Front of the neighboring country. Before, Milei met with…
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