BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s libertarian leader is lavishing praise on Donald Trump ahead of his first White House meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday. It's a tactic that has helped transform President Javier Milei ’s cash-strapped country into one of the Trump administration’s closest allies .

The effusive declarations are nothing new for Milei — whose dramatic cuts to state spending and attacks on “woke leftists” have won him a following among U.S. conservatives .

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“Your commitment to life, freedom and peace has restored hope to the world,” Milei wrote on social media Monday, congratulating the U.S. president on securing a ceasefire deal in Gaza , where a truce is holding after a devastating, two-year Israel-Hamas war.

“It is an honor to consider y

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