International media outlets The Economist, Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal are now praising Javier Milei’s economic plan with the same conviction with which they criticised it the week before the elections. The first is a cooperative of British journalists, the second was purchased by Tokyo’s main business daily Nikkei and the third is Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, demonstrating the eclecticism and instability which also affects the best international business journalism, revealing that the need to empathise with what they suppose is the mood of their audiences – identification with success in this case – is not just a recently exacerbated characteristic of our country’s media. While in the week before the elections they were analysing the possibility of an early end for the Milei government, they are now taking his re-election for granted.

If in 1983 the engineer and economist Marcelo Diamand wrote the book El péndulo argentino: ¿Hasta cuándo? (repeatedly quoted for being eternally topical), in 2025 we might say that what has changed is the speed for that pendulum, from years to months and now days. The acceleration of something is not a symptom of change but quite the contrary. Perhaps, hopefully, the threshold of true change – which would be, as former Perfil editor Walter Curia wrote in a column: ’El verdadero cambio sería si Milei hablara con Kicillof’ (“The true change would be if Milei spoke to Kicillof”), if, independently of those