For clues as to why Argentina's President Javier Milei faces a potential drubbing in next week's mid-terms, look no further than San Andres de Giles, a farming town set amid wheat fields two hours from Buenos Aires.

The town known simply as Giles backed Milei for president in October 2023, when the 54-year-old economist and punk rocker swept to power as an outsider with a radical plan to fix Argentina's broken economy.

Milei won 58 percent of the vote in Giles, higher than his national average of 55.65 percent.

But the fervor he elicited there has since largely fizzled, an ominous sign for US President Donald Trump's closest South American ally, whose reform agenda hangs in the balance.

As she rearranges books in the town's brightly lit library, Jacqueline Garrahan says she feels betra

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