Argentine President Javier Milley will visit the United States on Monday for his fourth time since taking office in December and meet with tech giants in an effort to “restore” his economically struggling country, his government said.
President Milley, accompanied by the economy minister, will meet this week with representatives from OpenAI, Apple and Google, as well as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni told reporters.
The ultra-liberal president “will meet with the owners of four of the world’s top 10 companies by market capitalization in this attempt to reshape Argentina’s international position,” Adorni told reporters.
It is Millay’s seventh overseas trip since December and comes in a week when the Senate is debating proposed reforms aimed at cutting the budget and liberalising the economy.
Millay’s final overseas trip was to Spain, where he sparked a major diplomatic row last week after he called the prime minister’s wife “corrupt” at a rally of far-right leaders in Madrid.
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On his way home from visits to Silicon Valley and Stanford University, the self-described “anarcho-capitalist” president is scheduled to attend Friday’s swearing-in ceremony for El Salvador’s anti-gang leader, Najib Bukele, who was re-elected with a large majority in February.
Milley will return to Madrid next month to receive an award from a liberal think tank before attending the G7 summit in Italy and a peace summit in Switzerland hosted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
During his three previous visits to the US, Milley met twice with businessman Elon Musk, was awarded a medal by the Orthodox Jewish community and met with former President Donald Trump.
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Since taking office, Millay has slashed public spending, cut his cabinet in half, fired tens of thousands of government employees, halted new public works contracts and eliminated fuel and transport subsidies.
Inflation is slowing but still stands at nearly 290% year-on-year, and manufacturing production is plummeting.
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