Javier Milei’s government is weighing up a proposal for Argentina to leave the Paris agreement, days after Donald Trump announced the US would exit the world’s key accord on climate change.

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Javier Milei, a colorful right-wing “anarcho ... the country’s currency the American dollar. He calls climate change a hoax and has earned comparisons to Donald Trump.

Argentine President Javier Milei said Thursday during his appearance before the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos (Switzerland) that “we must eliminate the virus of woke ideology” that has been subverting the Western civilization's values over the past few years.

Quitting the Paris Agreement triggers a cascade of real-world impacts and signals the beginning of an aggressive agenda to undo U.S. climate policy.

President Donald Trump has given everyone at Davos something to talk about with his actions on the first day of his second term.

Behind Donald Trump's "Drill baby, drill!" rhetoric, there is a wider political message in his ordering of the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, both to those who supported him, and to the wider world.

Argentina’s firebrand libertarian president, Javier Milei, delivered a thunderous speech that sent shockwaves through the global elite.

So overall, the US exit from Paris is probably the best of a bunch of bad options. It mutes Trump’s capacity to destabilise international climate action, allowing others to step into the breach. This article was first published on The Conversation.

Javier Milei’s government is weighing up a proposal for Argentina to leave the Paris agreement, days after Donald Trump announced the US would exit the world’s key accord on climate change.

Inflation and threats to energy security have eroded the political strength of climate-forward leaders and emboldened Trumpian populists around the world.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to settle at 29%, it announced in a statement on Thursday, as inflation continues its downward path in South America's No. 2 economy.

We are witnessing the spectacular and, so far, unstoppable rise of all forms of fascism . We find the most recent act of this drama in the United States with the victory in the recent elections of the Republican Party led by Donald Trump,