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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

As she rearranges books in the town's brightly lit library, Jacqueline Garrahan says she feels betrayed by a president she believed would embody change.

Garrahan is a retired teacher but works at the library to supplement her pension of $600 a month in order to support her student daughter.

In 2023, she voted for Milei as the candidate most likely to oust the centre-left Peron

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