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Facundo Iglesia in Buenos Aires and Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

a man sings on stage with fire visible
Javier Milei sings while presenting his new book, the Construction of the Miracle in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Monday. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

Argentina’s “rock star president” Javier Milei has been struggling to get much satisfaction of late, as his pledge to lead the country into a new era of prosperity foundered amid a wave of economic strife, scandal and public discontent.

But on Monday night the scruffy-haired South American populist – the former frontman in a Rolling Stones tribute band – took to the stage in Buenos Aires hoping to sing his way out of the funk.

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