Who is Javier Milei?
He’s the self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” and former TV pundit who will be sworn in as the president of Argentina on 10 December, having won the November election. Milei, a trained economist who names his dogs after famous free-market thinkers, is a radical libertarian who campaigned on a platform of sweeping economic “shock therapy” and privatisation, pledging to take a “chainsaw” to government spending to tackle Argentina’s triple-digit inflation and growing poverty. Milei’s most radical ideas and controversial proposals are to shut the central bank and “dollarise” the Argentinian economy – abolishing the national currency,
