Javier Milei’s election in 2023 was a repudiation of decades of Peronist turmoil, corruption and inflation. Milei offered shock therapy, delivered with an Austin Powers haircut and chainsaws. This is a man who had worked as a tantric sex coach and claims to speak not just with animals but also with God himself. Eyebrows were raised. Could such a strange man, one who seems to embrace the new occultism outlined in our cover piece, deliver his promised reconstruction of Argentina? Or would voters soon grow tired of the state-slashing mystic?

Yet this former frontman of a Rolling Stones tribute band has proved his sceptics wrong. He took office with inflation touching 200 per cent and acted decisively: deregulating the economy, cutting the public sector by 30 per cent, devaluing the peso, sim

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