Javier Milei (File image/RHC)

By: Roberto Morejón

Argentina's ultra-right president, Javier Milei, has transformed the country's international relations with the world, based on giving priority to countries that defend private property.

The leader of the La Libertad Avanza movement defends such perverse concepts as that the West is in danger because those who are supposed to defend its values have a vision of the world that is prone to socialism.

The ultra-rightist first president is taking the links with the outside world to the proximity of Washington, in an operation as marked as the one signed by the former president Carlos Menem.

The abandonment or reduction of relations with China or Brazil, two of the main partners of Buenos Aires, and with the global South, focused on the West and aligned with the United States, constitute the cornerstone of international relations.

The ruler visited the northern power several times, while refusing to attend important meetings of great economic interest for Argentina.

But the statesman, criticized for his extravagance, prefers to approach exponents of unbridled capitalism, such as Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and admirer of Donald Trump.

One of his first trips abroad was to attend an ultra-conservative summit of the American far right.

It was not by chance that he withdrew from the BRICS, negotiated under the government of Alberto Fernández and which would come into force at the beginning of this year.

In April 2024, the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, expressed his country's intention to join NATO as a partner.

All these steps are jealously supervised by the ruler, so much so that the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerardo Werthein, who said that there is only one foreign policy in Argentina, the one defined by the president.

The new minister, close to the Milei brothers, replaces Diana Mondino, who voted in favor of Cuba against the US blockade at the UN General Assembly.

Another of Milei's political references is the genocidal state of Israel, whose economic power is based on its military influence, imposed by brutal repression in the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights and attacks on Lebanon.

The Argentine government remains unmoved by the extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza and subscribes to Tel Aviv's thesis that in order to eradicate the Hamas and Hezbollah movements, civilians will be liquidated if necessary.

With several clashes with Latin American governments, Milei is alone in his program to break Argentina's traditional foreign relations with countries of the South and non-aligned countries