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Tiago Rogero, and Facundo Iglesia in Buenos Aires

Javier Milei announces Argentina to leave World Health Organization

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Javier Milei speaks in Kloten, Switzerland, on 24 January 2025. Photograph: Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP

Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has followed Donald Trump’s example and announced that Argentina will also leave the World Health Organization (WHO).

Milei attributed his decision to the WHO’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic, which he described as a “caveman quarantine that involved … one of the most outlandish crimes against humanity in history”.

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