Argentina elects ‘shock therapy’ right-wing populist as president

Argentinian voters on Sunday picked as their new president right-wing populist Javier Milei, who intends to swap out the peso for the dollar, believes climate change is a “socialist lie,” and wants to loosen the country’s stringent gun laws. Milei, a libertarian economist who describes himself as an “anarcho capitalist,” had been gaining in popularity by lambasting what he called the “political caste” amid 140% inflation and increasing poverty. The Donald Trump wannabe also thinks it should be legal to sell human organs and believes sex education really exists to...