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The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips and Facundo Iglesia in Buenos Aires

Maga on the River Plate as global populist right descends on Argentina

a woman in an orange dress speaks at a podium with a backdrop saying CPAC Argentina
Lara Trump, the vice-president of the Republican National Committee, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Argentina 2024 in Buenos Aires last week. Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

At the entrance to the office of Argentina’s minister of deregulation a biography of “the world’s most fascinating and controversial innovator” sits on a side table, promising an astonishingly intimate portrait of a “rule-breaking visionary”.

The book’s subject is not the minister’s boss, the wild-haired, wild-thinking president, Javier Milei. It is the Donald Trump-supporting tech billionaire Elon Musk.

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