A family event like the celebration of Mother’s Day It was the most used topic on Argentine social networks this Sunday. The celebratory trend also revived different videos and photographs of meetings between mothers and children that were shared in the virtual world. But, also, coinciding with the anniversary, a discordant fragment of a report went viral. Javier Milei talking about their “parents”, edited by user @cyranofx.
In 2018, the driver Andy Kusnetzoff interviewed the then anarcho-capitalist economist. Being an emerging media figure, I knew little about Javier Milei’s family relationship and his bond with his parents, so the journalist investigated the libertarian’s personal life. “I do not share the moral and ethical values of either of them,” said the current president and added: “For me it is like they no longer exist. In fact, I am forbidden to talk to my sister about them.”
After the hypothesis that they would meet at some point, raised by the driver, Milei reaffirmed: “For me, they are dead.” The president’s relationship with his parents has been, over the years, one of the most conflictive and talked about facets of his personal life, especially with his father, Norberto Milei.
In different interviews, Milei described her father as an authoritarian and violent figure. He went so far as to state that he suffered physical and psychological abuse during his childhood, which deeply marked his character and his way of relating to the world. “My childhood was hell,” he once said, recalling the episodes of aggression that — according to his testimony — led him to completely distance himself from his parents for decades.
with his mother, Alicia Lucichthe link was less confrontational, but was also crossed by long years of silence. Milei acknowledged that the family breakup was total: at one point in his life he stopped seeing them and even asked to be “erased” from the family. During that time, his sister Karina Milei It became his only stable emotional reference. The rapprochement with his parents only occurred many years later, when his political career was beginning to gain relevance.
In 2021, during the electoral campaign that led him to become a deputy, Milei said that he had returned to contact with them and that the relationship was “in the process of healing.” After his inauguration as president, both his mother and father participated in some official events and family gatherings, although without significant public exposure.
For Mother’s Day, the head of state’s X account shared the following message: “HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY…!!!”, accompanied by a graphic strip by comedian NIK referring to the subject. Beyond the synthetic nature of the writing, the visual narration created by Cristian Gustavo Dzwonik and shared by the president suggests that filial ties are still latent.
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