The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, hinted this Tuesday that he has won his dispute with the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, in the context of the diplomatic crisis unleashed after the Argentine president called Begoña Gómez “corrupt”. , Sanchez’s wife.
“Maybe I already have a match point for Pedrito, despite what the media progress says,” Milei said during a speech at an event of the Argentine Institute of Finance Executives after mentioning Spain while making a comparison between the character’s performance. fictional Zorro and anarcho-capitalism. “Zorro had two types of enemies. Obviously, let’s say, Monasterio and all his soldiers, that is, the State, which came and took the resources to take him to Spain… Well, today I mention Spain,” the Argentine president expressed just before naming Sanchez.
These words from Milei occur in the midst of a diplomatic crisis with Spain and after the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, left the door open this Tuesday to some type of action in relation to the new visit. from Milei in June.
The Presidency of Argentina confirmed the day before that Milei maintains his plans to visit Madrid on June 21 to receive an award from the Juan de Mariana Institute, a liberal study group, for his “exemplary defense of the ideas of freedom.” .
The diplomatic crisis broke out after Milei described Begoña Gómez, the wife of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, as “corrupt”, and has been increasing in recent hours, after the Spanish Government has decided to definitively withdraw to the ambassador in Buenos Aires, María Jesús Alonso, a gesture described as “nonsense” by the Argentine president himself.
