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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Nick Robins-Early

Argentinian president to meet Silicon Valley CEOs in bid to court tech titans

A man wearing a blue suit and a sash with Argentina's flag smiles
Javier Milei takes the stage during the commemoration of the 214th anniversary of the May Revolution, in Córdoba, Argentina, on 25 May. Photograph: Leandro Bustamante Gomez/Reuters

Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, is set to meet with the leaders of some of the world’s largest tech companies in Silicon Valley this week. The far-right libertarian leader will hold private talks with Sundar Pichai of Google, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Tim Cook of Apple.

Milei also met last month with Elon Musk, who has become one of the South American president’s most prominent cheerleaders and repeatedly shared his pro-deregulation, anti-social justice message on X (formerly Twitter). Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire, has also twice visited Milei, flying to Buenos Aires to speak with him in February and May of this year.

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