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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent

Trump’s bailout threat may have been key to Milei’s electoral triumph in Argentina

Milei holds a hand up to acknowledge supporters
Javier Milei greets supporters after the mid-term elections Photograph: Tomás Cuesta/Getty Images

“The dollar always talks in the end,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.

Javier Milei’s surprise triumph in Argentina’s midterm elections – after Trump bailed him out with 40bn of them – suggests there may be some truth to that assertion.

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