© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Argentina’s presidential candidate Javier Milei addresses supporters as he reacts to the outcomes of the presidential election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 22, 2023. REUTERS/Matias Baglietto/File Photo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s leftist chief on Friday beneficial that Argentines peacefully protest the brand new authorities of radical libertarian President Javier Milei, who took workplace final week promising deep finances cuts in a bid to tame triple-digit inflation.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has usually criticized international calls to motion in opposition to his personal authorities’s insurance policies, advised a press convention that Argentine residents ought to embrace “peaceful civic resistance” and keep away from any temptation to oppose Milei’s insurance policies with violence.
“What I will say to the Argentine people … is don’t be provoked, that non-violence is politically effective,” mentioned Lopez Obrador, who himself has pursued wide-ranging cuts to authorities spending that doesn’t align along with his priorities.
Milei’s press workplace didn’t instantly repsond to a request for remark.
After Milei’s triumph in a run-off election final month, Lopez Obrador dismissed the win as an “own goal”, saying he was not in favor of “racist, classist governments.”
His international ministry did, nevertheless, congratulate Milei, saying Mexico would search constructive relations.
This week, Milei’s financial chief rolled out an preliminary set of insurance policies, together with a pointy devaluation of the native peso forex plus main spending cuts, geared toward staving off hyperinflation and fixing his nation’s worst disaster in a long time.
Milei’s predecessor, center-left President Alberto Fernandez, had a lot hotter relations with Lopez Obrador.
