DEFEAT: Javier Milei
ARGENTINA’S senate dealt a blow to far-right President Javier Milei yesterday after it rejected the two Supreme Court candidates he nominated by decree earlier this year.
The congressional defeat could complicate the implementation of President Milei’s assault on the state as analysts say the president had hoped to fill the Supreme Court vacancies with appointees who would rule favourably on challenges to his economic reforms.
President Milei bypassed Congress in February to appoint two controversial Supreme Court candidates.
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
