President Javier Milei has praised his United States counterpart Donald Trump for the dramatic capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, reaffirming his alignment with Washington.
In comments made during an interview with a streaming channel Tuesday, Milei considered that Trump is “redesigning the world order” and advancing against what he described as “murderous socialism.”
However, the libertarian leader clarified that, despite Argentina’s geopolitical alignment with the United States, his government will not break its trade ties with China.
“Trump is redesigning the world order, no longer thinking in terms of globalisation to pass onto geopolitical terms and part of that discussion is to end murderous socialism, whether it calls itself Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua,” said Milei in an interview with streaming channel Neura.
Argentina’s President highlighted the strength of the bilateral relationship between Buenos Aires and Washington and said that his government’s stance had been defined before he took office.
“There is a reordering and it is clear that some players are better positioned than others. We adopted a clear stance before being elected; our geopolitical alliance was part of our electoral platform,” he affirmed.
He has“always” spoken of a “geopolitical alliance because commercial questions run parallel,” argued Milei.
But the La Libertad Avanza leader said it would be a great folly to break ties with Beijing, despite Washington's desire to limit Chinese influence in the Americas.
“I’m not going to break the trade links with China. In fact, the United States has trade links with China,” insisted Milei.
Offering his take on the operation in Caracas that led to the detention of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cicilia Flores, Milei expressed his full-throated support for the operation carried out by the United States.
Acknowledging that 40 people had died in the operation, Milei described the US capture mission as a “surgical” act of “admirable precision.”
Of those 40 dead, he indicated, 32 were Cuban, said Milei, clarifying that they were military agents. “We’re talking about a dictatorship, a terrorist narco-state,” he said in reference to Maduro’s Venezuela.
Quizzed about the US-Venezuela agreement with interim leader Delcy Rodríguez’s government that will see Caracas deliver 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, Milei rejected critiques pointing out that Washington only sought to appropriate that resource.
“It’s stupid to say that they want to appropriate the oil,” he maintained, arguing that the generation of wealth depends on respect for private property, the institutions and life.
– TIMES/NA
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