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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Sam Jones in Madrid

Spain permanently recalls ambassador from Argentina amid feud with Milei

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Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, left, denounced remarks by Javier Milei, right, as a ‘frontal attack’ on its democracy. Photograph: Pau Barrenatomas Cuesta/AFP/Getty Images

Spain has said it is permanently withdrawing its ambassador from Argentina as a result of a growing diplomatic feud with the South American country’s radical rightwing president, Javier Milei.

Milei – a notoriously pugnacious ally of the fellow populists Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro – sparked the row last weekend by insinuating that Begoña Gómez, the wife of Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, was “corrupt”.

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