Leader of the libertarian Liberty Advances party Javier Miley has won the second round of Argentina’s presidential elections with 55.7 percent of the vote. His rival Sergio Massa of the ruling Union for the Homeland socialist coalition, has scored 44.3 percent.
Election results have become a triumph of American electoral technologies behind Miley's victory. He is a creature of the United States — invented, "nurtured" and promoted exclusively to prevent a second presidential term of the socialists, who built Argentina into Latin America’s so-called "leftist pivot" under President Alberto Fernandez.
The last country in this anti-American process is Brazil, whose new president Lula da Silva literally shocked the world with his statement about the need to abandon the dollar in international trade. Being a BRICS member, Lula’s Brazil has become a driver to expand and improve the bloc’s efficiency based on the thesis about equal trade and relations between countries of the world as a snub to US financial and military hegemony. Latin America’s leftist pivot and Brazil’s international anti-American effort resulted in making Argentina part of BRICS.
Its membership, along with Brazil, turns South America into an opposition outpost against US dominance in the Western Hemisphere. These are the continent’s largest nations, geographically and economically. Hence the initial clarity of US objectives during the current election campaign in Argentina — to overthrow the socialist government by all the means available, averting their candidate’s second presidential term.
In Argentina, the United States did not venture to bet on the socialists’ traditional right-wing rivals. The latter tore their reputation to shreds under ex-President Mauricio Macri, so promoting a right candidate against the socialists would not have been strategically wise as a sure dead-end road.
Therefore, the United States came up with a shrewd trick engaging Javier Miley, the one to antithesize himself to "the entire political class of Argentina, threadbare and rotten." Miley dubbed it a "caste" loathing to let anyone less approach the political Olympus, referring to both the right and the left. This seemed logical to many ordinary Argentines, who became disillusioned with the previous rightists’ pledges of a better life. By and large, a needy Argentinian does not really care that the country was already in the doldrums when the socialists inherited it from President Macri, and they have been seeking to close off the national budget loopholes the whole time.
In fact, Miley lined up protest votes while focusing, or rather having been focused, on young people as the most numerous, vulnerable and suffering part of nation, given their age, youthful exuberance, and failure to do their own thing amid an everlasting economic crisis. And Miley concentrated the bulk of his propaganda exactly where young people "cut loose" — on social media platforms.
What can one expect of Miley? He has been arguing for complete privatization of economy, including education, healthcare, and the social services, that is for creating a society of "chemically pure capitalism", which has prevailed in Chile since Pinochet’s dictatorship. And the Argentines seem not quite aware of what they have voted for. Neighboring Chile’s totally liberalized economy, as enshrined in the constitution, has caused a social split in two absolutely non-overlapping strata that have been reproducing themselves for five decades. A group of wealthy Chileans has remained rich and with access to power, but nothing has changed for the vast majority of the poor, who struggle breaking out of the vicious circle and make it into the Team Rich. If Argentina follows the way, social revolt will only be a matter of time.
Miley has already taken a stand for waiving cooperation with China, Brazil, and Russia in favor of the United States and Israel. He has a dim view of BRICS membership, seeking no business with "communists or socialists," as he put it. Miley may not just sabotage Argentina's accession, but try to discredit the bloc and make it collapse. As for stone-walling China, this has long been a US imperative in Latin America. If we discard all the double talk and Miley’s eccentric antics, the bottom line of his campaign centers around theses the White House has been building its Latin America policy on.
Local media write as follows: "The painful majority who voted for Miley and made him president did not have a clue of what they just voted for… It makes our blood creep veins that the country is going to become a fascist laboratory to glorify cruelty and stupidity, while persecuting those who really speak up for the people." "Unfortunately, Argentina has made a mistake today," sums up a commentator under the piece. Argentines, especially young people, have been lulled into complacency and fail to see that Miley's populist and often extravagant rhetoric is a mere cover for the United States’ back-door action as it toys with Miley like a puppet — and it will never stop to.
