The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, begins a series of visits to far-right politicians across Latin America in the coming weeks. The first stops, on July 25th, will be in Brasília and São Paulo, with a promised visit to former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest, and to the senator and pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, Flávio Bolsonaro. Milei’s itinerary then continues to Peru and Colombia, where the far right won recent elections with a narrow margin of votes and accusations of external interference.
The agenda will not include a meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. According to the investigation of the Brazil in factthere has been no request, to date, for a bilateral meeting between Brazil and Argentina for that date. The federal government, in fact, believes that there will be no request and that the Argentine can participate in the launch of Flávio’s campaign, also scheduled for the 25th.
Milei has avoided meeting Lula. At the last Mercosur meeting, in Paraguay, the Argentine chose to skip it and stay in Buenos Aires, to take a photo with Flávio at a meeting in support of Israel.
The ties of the extreme right
Two days later, Milei goes to Peru to participate in the inauguration of ultra-conservative Keiko Fujimori as president of the country. The daughter of former Peruvian dictator Alberto Fujimori won with a difference of just 49,641 votes. The result was contested by opponent Roberto Sánchez (Juntos por él Perú), due to administrative failures and problems in the custody of electoral ballots.
In August, Milei will be in possession of Abelardo de la Espriella, in Colombia. Just as in the case of Fujimori, the new Colombian president won a fierce dispute. The difference was approximately 250 thousand votes, less than one percentage point.
On the same trip, the Argentine must also visit President Daniel Noboa, in Ecuador. In office since 2023 and implementing an authoritarian reform, marked by human rights violations and the suspension of opposition parties, the president has become a kind of model for the new extremists on the Latin American right.
Shield of the Americas and Washington’s agenda
Milei has been one of the main supporters of the so-called Shield of the Americas, presented by the White House as “a new security initiative for the Western Hemisphere”. Under the discourse of combating cartels, transnational “gangs” and irregular migration, their meetings bring together representatives of right-wing governments in Latin America aligned with the US president.
Furthermore, Milei adopts, without hesitation, Donald Trump’s neoliberal playbook and international funds. At the end of the month, the director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, will visit Argentina to support the president’s measures. In 2025, Argentina signed an Extended Facilities Agreement with the IMF worth 20 billion dollars (approximately R$110 billion) over four years.
In Colombia, Espriella promised a fiscal adjustment plan to try to reduce the size of the State by 40%. The package includes a review of public spending, the abolition of ministries, a budget growing below inflation from 2027 and a tax reform.
Fujimori announced a public security plan aligned with the extreme right, which promises to mobilize the Armed Forces to act rigidly against organized crime and extortion gangs. She intends to tighten immigration rules, with a deportation policy for anyone who commits criminal acts.
Source: www.brasildefato.com.br
