On April 2, 1982, a year before Javier Milei He entered high school, the Malvinas War began. But something else also happened: a brutal scene that perfectly summarizes what was for Javier Milei the years of his childhood. The then child, who was missing a year to enter high school, saw the grandiloque ads that television made about the beginning of the war conflict surprised, and committed the sin of saying out loud in the kitchen of his house-with the certainties that an 11-year-old boy can have- that the climb was going to end badly for Argentina. That caused Norberto’s patriotic outragehis father, who hit him with a wild violence. Karina, involuntary witness of the beating, suffered such a terrible shock to witness the scene that had to take her to the hospital. From there the mother phone to Javier. “Your sister is like this because of yours,” he said, as he told the journalist Agustín Gallardo in 2018 in an interview for profile.
However, there is a figure related to the Malvinas War that, far from bringing a painful memory, is someone worth admiring for Milei. This is the case of Margaret Thatcherwho was British prime minister while lasted in war, and who gave the order of the Sinking of General Belgranoa war crime – since it was outside the area of the contest – and that ended with the death of 323 Argentines, half of the soldiers who died in the islands. For the president, however, she is something similar to a heroine, someone to admire. So much that, in fact, he has a photo of his in the office of the Casa Rosada.
The image is at one of the work tables that you have in your office. Of the photos that usually circulate, it would be the one to the right of his desk, where he also has books and other work papers. Thatcher is not alone there: there is also an identical souvenir but with the face of Ronald Reagan, the US president whom Milei also admires. This present had caught the attention to the British BBC channel, which when he interviewed the president in May last year, in that same place, he said in the note about the object. “There was a war and we had to lose. That does not mean that one cannot consider that those who were in front were people who do their job well. And I not only admire Margaret Thatcher, I also admire Ronald Reagan in the United States. And what is the problem? Criticizing someone for their nationality or race is intellectually very precarious. I have heard many speeches by Margaret Thatcher, she was brilliant. So what is the problem? “The libertarian replied when they consulted whether” admired “Thatcher.
The idolatry with Thatcher is not new. In the last presidential debate, Sergio Massa had asked him for his admiration who defined as “an enemy of argantine.” Milei replied: “With that criterion, when Germany in 74 made 4 goals to Argentina, Cruyff broke it and made a disaster (Ndr: Cruyff played for the Netherlands) you would have to consider that she is a lousy player. Or with the goals that Mbappe made to us in the final you would have to despise him. We touched us a war and we lost it.” The president, in this, is seen that he is consistent: every time he enters his office in the Casa Rosada he can see his idol.
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