Snubbed by Biden, Argentina’s Javier Milei Grabs Lunch with Bill Clinton
Argentine President-elect Javier Milei held a surprise lunch meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Monday during his brief visit to New York.
During the meeting, Milei and his team
presented their government program to Clinton and former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), who currently serves as Special Presidential Advisor for the Americas.
President Joe Biden will not meet with Milei during the Argentine president-elect’s visit to the White House, expected Tuesday afternoon.
Gerardo Werthein, the likely next Argentine Ambassador to Washington and part of the group dining with Milei and Clinton,
explained to the Argentine newspaper
La Nación that both the former U.S. president and former Sen. Dodd “asked him a lot of questions,” remarking that the Argentine president-elect “responded to all of them very clearly.”
“He [Milei] explained what his plan was and how he was going to do it and as a corollary of this meeting, which we can say was very good, he deserves to carry out a project for the benefit of all Argentines, but above all, those who have the least,” Werthein said.
According to Werthein, Milei sought to make clear in the meeting that his plan aims to guide Argentina out of its current economic crisis with definitive solutions. Argentina is currently facing an inflation rate of more than 140 percent, a poverty rate of 40 percent, a crumbling national currency, and a debt of more than $40 billion to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Argentine President-elect Javier Milei held a surprise lunch meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Monday.
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