ALPINE MILEI
President Javier Milei’s third address to the World Economic Forum in Davos was also his most moderate, toning down his previous anti-woke harangues to defend the values of Western capitalism and deplore state intervention by saying: “Regulation kills growth.” Prior to his Wednesday speech he met some of the world’s top CEOs and international bankers, who praised his free market policies. On Thursday, he attended the ceremony to formalise the Board of Peace, created and headed by US President Donald Trump (widely seen as an incipient bid to replace the United Nations), signing up before heading home that evening. Apart from his sister, Presidential Chief-of-Staff Karina Milei, Milei was accompanied by ministers Luis Caputo (Economy), Federico Sturzenegger (Deregulation & State Transformation) and Pablo Quirno (Foreign Affairs) – Caputo met up with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, who praised Argentina’s “strong economic performance” and especially “progress in accumulating reserves.” Last weekend Milei signed Mercosur’s historic free-trade agreement with the European Union in the Paraguayan c
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