Source: AFP
Argentine President Javier Millay is heading to the United States on Monday for the fourth time since taking office in December, meeting tech giants as he seeks to “reposition” his economically troubled country, the government said.
Accompanied by his economy minister, Milei is set to meet representatives of OpenAI, Apple and Google this week, as well as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, presidency spokesman Manuel Adorni told reporters.
The ultra-liberal president will meet “the owners of four of the top 10 companies by market capitalization in the world in this effort to reposition Argentina globally,” Adorni told reporters.
It’s Miley’s seventh trip overall since December and comes a week before the Senate debates the budget-cutting and economic-reform liberalization package.
Millay’s last visit abroad, to Spain, sparked a major diplomatic row last week after he called the prime minister’s wife “corrupt” at a gathering of far-right leaders in Madrid.
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On his way home from his trip to Silicon Valley and Stanford University, the self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” president will attend the inauguration of El Salvador’s leader Najib Buquele, who was re-elected by a landslide in February, on Friday.
Miley will travel again next month to Madrid to receive an award from a liberal think tank, before attending a G7 meeting in Italy and a peace summit convened by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Switzerland.
In his last three visits to the United States, Milei twice met with tycoon Elon Musk, received a medal from a Jewish Orthodox community and sat down with former President Donald Trump.
Miley has slashed public spending, halved his cabinet, cut tens of thousands of jobs, suspended new public works contracts and removed fuel and transport subsidies since taking office.
While inflation is slowing, it is still nearly 290 percent year-on-year, while manufacturing output has plummeted.
Source: AFP