“He uses drugs.” Tension with Argentina –

Diplomatic clash between Buenos Aires and Madrid. The tensions were triggered by the words of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, who in a statement released by the Casa Rosada responded to the words of the Spanish transport minister, Oscar Puente, who during an informal conversation with some students had wondered whether Milei used of narcotic substances. The response from Buenos Aires was very harsh: «Pedro Sànchez’s government has more important problems to face, such as the accusations of corruption leveled once morest his wife, an issue that has even led him to consider his resignation», we read in the response note from the Argentine presidency.

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According to Buenos Aires, «Sánchez has endangered the unity of the Kingdom, by agreeing with the separatists and leading to the dissolution of Spain, he has put Spanish women at risk by allowing the clandestine immigration of those who threaten their physical integrity and he has put the middle class is in danger with its socialist policies that only bring poverty and death.” The document concludes: «We Argentines choose to change the model that has brought us misery and decadence. The same model that the Spanish Socialist Workers Party applies in his country. We hope that the Spanish people will soon choose to live in freedom once more.”

«The Spanish Government categorically rejects the unfounded terms of the declaration issued by the Presidency of the Argentine Republic, which do not correspond to the relations between the two brotherly countries and peoples», was the response from Madrid entrusted to a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Milei’s attack comes two weeks before the Argentine president’s trip to Spain: the leader of ‘La Libertad Avanza’ is expected to participate on May 18 in a meeting organized by Vox, ‘Europa Viva 24’, the large mass event with which the Spanish far right intends to launch its campaign for the European elections on 9 June. Milei’s visit, his first to Spain as president, does not include meetings with Sánchez or the king.