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Milei Joins the Madrid Forum in Santiago and Meets Kast

Milei urged the South American right to organize and seek a liberty alliance after a forum that drew over 40 speakers from 25 countries.

  • On Thursday, September 3, 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei traveled to Santiago, Chile, to address the Madrid Forum and meet Chilean counterpart José Antonio Kast at the Palacio de la Moneda.
  • Gathering over 40 speakers from 25 countries, the Madrid Forum's fifth regional meeting convened at the Centro de Eventos San Carlos de Apoquindo, organized by Fundación Disenso, a think tank linked to Spain's Vox party.
  • Defending his economic program, Milei vindicated the 1973 overthrow of former President Salvador Allende, asserting that the subsequent period of stability and growth was the "envy of the entire region."
  • Despite diplomatic friction regarding the Strait of Magellan, Milei and Kast discussed regional cooperation, with Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Pérez Mackenna asserting the strait is "indisputably Chilean."
  • Reflecting a concerted effort to coordinate conservative leadership across Latin America, this marked the fourth face-to-face encounter between the leaders in under a year.
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Santiago. The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate the messianic and predatory style that he likes to practice, when, when inaugurating yesterday the ultra-rightist summit of the Madrid Forum, he labeled progressism as “much left-handed deniers of reality” and called the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, “more dirty than a pope,” who “was offended when I told him and all the people a…

·Mexico
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The Argentine president, Javier Milei, called this Thursday to coordinate the Latin American right against the left, which he accused of "colonizing" institutions, universities and media, during an ultra-right meeting held in Santiago.

·Warsaw, Poland
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Milei had declared hours earlier, at the opening of the Madrid Forum in Santiago, Chile, that "after the overthrow of Communist Allende, Chile entered a period of stability and growth that lasted for more than 40 years."

·Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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On Thursday, September 3, Chile hosted the Madrid Forum, an event that brings together parties and organizations from the far right of Europe and America each year. For this 5th edition, the meeting took place in Santiago, with Chilean President José Antonio Kast, a founding member, as host. The participants celebrated "a new era" for the continent, after the electoral victories in recent months of right-wing and far-right leaders in Colombia, P…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Javier Milley called on Latin America’s right to “organize” against the left during his visit to Chile. Argentine President Javier Milley on Thursday urged right-wing forces in Latin America to “organize” to confront the left, which he accused of “colonizing” state institutions, universities and the media, during a far-right rally in Chile. “The left has been organizing at the regional level for decades” “The left has been organizing at the regi…

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The far-right Milley calls for organization to confront the left, as it has "colonized" state institutions, universities and media. The post Chile: The far-right president of Argentina calls for "organization" to confront the left appeared first on in.gr.

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CNN Chile broke the news on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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