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PBS Can’t Stop Trashing Argentina’s Successful Capitalist President, ‘Far-Right’ Javier Milei
One more reason to defund PBS: Their reporters and researchers have no respect or understanding of libertarianism or libertarian voices (except on issues when libertarian ideology happens to match their own).
Just see how PBS has covered Argentina’s president Javier Milei, whose free-market reforms since taking office in December 2023 have already borne fruit, as the country's notorious inflation, running rampant when Milei won office, has cooled drastically, while the unemployment rate remains steady and things in general have stabilized.
Yet PBS ignores his undeniable success in favor of bashing him with any tool at hand, no matter how old. Most recently, PBS News Weekend on Saturday devoted a segment to “The Disappeared,” the political prisoners murdered by the military juntas in charge of Argentina from 1976-1983, during the country’s “Dirty War.”
ANCHOR JOHN YANG: This week, a human rights group in Argentina said it had identified a man who had been taken from his mother at a secret detention site more than 40 years ago during the country`s so called dirty war under the rule of a military dictatorship. He was reunited with his sister who had searched for him for years. But there are concerns that the government of Argentine President Javier Milei is reversing longstanding policy to continue the search for the tens of thousands of citizens who were abducted, never to be seen again, ‘The Disappeared.’ Special correspondent Kira Kay reports from Buenos Aires.
Kay had nothing to say about Milei having actually successfully conquered the "economic chaos" she referenced.
KIRA KAY: But activists say all this progress is now at risk through actions by Argentina`s new government. In November 2023, Argentina elected President Javier Milei, a libertarian economist who promised to address the country`s economic chaos. Facundo Robles managed the Wilson Center`s Latin America program.
FACUNDO ROBLES, Former Latin American Program Coordinator, Wilson Center: In the period that goes from February 2017 to February 2025, inflation was 7800 percent. Milei, he`s drastically decreasing the size of the state. He fired 40,000 people out of the public sector.
At PBS, firing government workers is a very bad thing. Stopping runaway inflation, not so much.
After Kay reported Milei has “questioned the number of 30,000 junta victims” she returned to Robles, who made a petulant point that “as long as Milei controls inflation, people will be like, say whatever you want.”
That was one of the few scattered clues from PBS that yes, Argentina’s notorious runaway inflation is being controlled under Milei.
On April 17, economics reporter Paul Solman got on Milei’s case regarding the $Libra meme coin, which “shot up from pennies to dollars when endorsed by Argentina`s President Javier Milei, then crashed back down to pennies within hours. Milei is now under investigation because investors suspect a rug pull.”
On November 20, 2023, Nawaz described Milei’s recent election victory as “thanks to an exhausted and angry electorate.” Inevitably, she compared him to Trump (being anything like Trump is bad at PBS) and noted he was a “self-described anarcho-capitalist” who had “pledged to shut down Argentina`s Central Bank, adopt the U.S. dollar as national currency, and make deep economic cuts….”
She gave out a warning about Milei's far-right threat in the form of a question to her guest expert, Oliver Stuenkel.
NAWAZ: ….Milei is close to the former far-right Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro. He`s also a supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump. What does Milei`s election mean for the relationship between Argentina and the U.S., led by President Biden, who has warned consistently about the rise of far-right authoritarian leaders?
On the November 19, 2023 PBS News Weekend, before Milei's victory was announced, anchor John Yang’s coverage was already being ridiculously biased, a harbinger of the slanted coverage to come from PBS.
YANG: In Argentina polls have closed and the tightly contested and closely watched presidential runoff election. Much of the attention is on far-right Libertarian candidate Javier Milei, whose brash style and embrace of conspiracy theories have drawn comparisons to Donald Trump.
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