President Javier Milei met with incoming US secretary of state Marco Rubio, soon to be the United States’ top diplomat, at a black-tie gala in Washington on Monday night. Argentina’s head of state dressed up to the nines for the Starlight Gala, staged to mark the inauguration of Donald Trump as the United States’ 47th president.

Milei was in an ebullient mood, cheered on by an appreciative Davos audience. He has some justification for a victory lap after delivering Argentina’s first fiscal surplus since 2009 and wrangling monthly inflation to under 3% — from over 25% when he took office in late 2023.

The ideological affinity between Argentina’s Javier Milei and the U.S. president could be crucial to the bilateral relations between the countries.

(Reuters) As Argentine President Javier Milei prepares to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ... “Milei will be positioned near Trump and key figures such as Elon Musk and Marco Rubio, solidifying a connection that no other regional leader has achieved ...

President-elect Donald Trump invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and conservative world leaders such as Argentine President Javier Milei and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni to the inauguration. Xi sent his vice president as his representative.

It’s a very different tack to Trump, who has just threatened tariffs of 10% on China from February, and whose Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a noted China hawk.

World / Despite other foreign-policy disagreements, a consensus is emerging among Republicans: The US must take an ultra-hawkish approach to Latin America. Guillaume Long Before Donald Trump’s first 10 days back in the White House were up,

While Rubio’s anti-China rhetoric aligns with Washington’s broader geopolitical goals, the tools at his disposal are insufficient to match Beijing’s economic engagement.

Trump gained a larger share of Black and Latino voters than he did in 2020, when he lost to Democrat Joe Biden – most notably among young Black and Hispanic male voters – according to AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters.

Argentinian President Javier Milei rallied against "the mental virus of woke ideology" during a fiery speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. Milei credited the fundamental values ...

The libertarian president has labeled the West?s left-wing ?woke? ideology a ?cancer we need to get rid of? Argentine President Javier Mil

Trump’s nominations, including Marco Rubio as Secretary of State ... hard-right leaders in the region too. Argentina’s Javier Milei or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele are just two examples ...