Milei has been on a mission to ‘Make Argentina Great Again’
  • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    Quite long and interesting piece, unsurprisingly he comes off as an unhinged asshole.

    To meet with Milei, you have to go through the person he calls El Jefe, the boss: his sister. On the day of our interview, Karina Milei, sporting silver sequined flip-flops, guarded the door to the President’s office before allowing me in. Karina, 52, is a former tarot reader who until a few years ago was selling cakes on Instagram.

    One of Milei’s first acts as President was to change a decree barring relatives from Cabinet positions in order to appoint her General Secretary of the Presidency.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      What is wrong with selling cakes on Instagram? Her success leading the campaign that made her brother the current president in Argentina is more important imo

      Also this:

      One of Milei’s first acts as President was to change a decree barring relatives from Cabinet positions in order to appoint her General Secretary of the Presidency.

      Completely within legal means. A decree is not a law. It’s within presidential executive mandate to do or undo.

        • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          33·
          6 months ago

          And? Barring any opinion on it, it’s not illegal, and people have the rights to exercise their beliefs in ways that don’t impact third parties negatively, as weird at it might sound.

          Focusing on that again, instead of the achievement of pulling a win with almost no resources against a fully, decades deeply state entrenched political party through a, by any normal politics, very unpopular message of reigning spend, while being lambasted in the dirtiest campaign ever seen in Argentina, is miopic and a bit misogynistic too imo, given that she is being minimized from the beginning just by her occupation as if she cannot provide value?