Javier Milei was first introduced to the Argentine public as a combative television personality with an unruly hairdo and a tendency to insult his critics.
So when he entered Argentina’s presidential race last year, he was viewed by many as a sideshow.
On Sunday, he was elected Argentina’s next president, and is now tasked with guiding one of Latin America’s largest economies out of one of its worst economic crises.
Many Argentines awoke on Monday anxious, others hopeful, but just about everyone was uncertain about what lay ahead.
Perhaps the only certainty about the country’s political and economic future was that, in three weeks, a far-right political outsider with little governing experience was set to take the reins of a government that he has vowed to upend.
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Javier Milei, Argentina’s
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Argentine