Argentina Holds Breath as Milei Seizes Narrow Advantage

“Argentina is teetering on the brink of an unpredictable new political era this weekend with an erratic far-right populist known as ‘El Loco’ (the Madman) the slight favorite to become president of South America’s second-largest economy in Sunday’s election,” The Guardian reports.

“As 35 million Argentinian voters prepared to choose their new leader against a backdrop of soaring inflation and widespread poverty, analysts believed Javier Milei, a TV celebrity turned congressman, held a slender advantage over his rival, the finance minister, Sergio Massa, but said the result was too close to call.”