Javier Milei, unironically played up to his rock-star president image, draped in double leather in front of a crowd of 15,000 supporters. But as he ran through a set-list of 80’s anti-establishment anthems, Argentina’s economic and political crisis is steadily being turned up to 11.
Outside the event, which was officially to launch the president’s latest book, this divisive figure’s supporters and opponents were facing off. Many want a ‘respectable country, free of corruption’ – but can Milei restore the status quo amid so much turmoil?
