Argentina’s President Javier Milei will attend the inauguration of Bolivia’s new leader Rodrigo Paz on Saturday, extending this week’s trip to the United States.
Milei, 55, will fly to the US on Wednesday to take part in an event in Miami also featuring US President Donald Trump, Argentina’s Presidency confirmed.
Paz, a 58-year-old centre-right economist, ended almost two decades of socialist rule in Bolivia by securing 54.96 percent of the vote in a run-off election held last month, on October 19.
At the time, Milei celebrated the news, stating that “Bolivia will once again join the free world.”
Bolivia shifted left in the mid-2000s under then-president Evo Morales (2006–2019),
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