Clinton’s quiet meeting raises questions

Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei had a quiet lunch with Bill Clinton on Monday, prompting some to question why the libertarian leader would sit down with the former president who does not hold a position of power.

“The meal with the former US leader, a Democrat largely on the opposite side of Milei’s ideological fence, marked a particularly striking part of the new Argentine president’s first foreign trip after winning a second term back earlier this month,” Reuters reported. .

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Former Senator Chris Dodd, Biden’s Latin American adviser, was also present at the meeting.

A meeting with President Joe Biden is not scheduled.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday: “We’ll have to see how this all plays out. Unfortunately, the president won’t be able to see him because he’ll be traveling domestically. But obviously we want to continue to look for ways to cooperate with Argentina”.

“Argentina is a vibrant partner in this continent on many issues,” he added. “We look forward to hearing the president-elect’s ideas and seeing where he wants to go on economic policy issues, making sure we have the opportunity to keep that line of communication open.”

Milei is scheduled to meet with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday in Washington, while his economic advisers are meeting with top U.S. financial officials to discuss the president-elect’s economic priorities, according to the agency. news – the White House confirmed the planned meeting with the president. Biden’s top security aide.

More from Reuters:

Early Monday, anarcho-capitalist Milei arrived in New Jersey with a small group of advisers, including former central banker Luis Caputo, the favorite to be his economy minister, and his campaign manager sister Karina Milei, said her office in a statement.

Upon arriving in the United States, Milei first visited the grave of a well-known Orthodox Jewish rabbi before lunching with Clinton, according to a statement from the president-elect’s office.

Other meetings planned include a meeting with International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials, according to Milei’s office: Argentina is the IMF’s largest debtor nation.

The president-elect promised on the campaign trail to dollarize Argentina—replace the Argentine peso with the U.S. dollar—and close its central bank as the nation faces a possible recession and inflation approaching 150%, while more than two-fifths of the Argentine population is in poverty

Milei will officially take office on December 10.

Reuters also cited a source close to Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as reporting that “a previously announced visit to Buenos Aires by former US President Donald Trump, seen by many as ideologically closer to Miley”.

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