Buenos Aires, Argentina - May 24, 2024

[Note: video contains Spanish language]

Argentina's president, Javier Milei, presented his new book on Wednesday at a massive and extravagant event at the Luna Park pavilion in Buenos Aires, where he transformed himself into a rock star to sing his unofficial anthem, Panic Show, alongside a band made up of some of his closest collaborators.

With the show sold out, the audience packed the venue with banners in support of the president, who was given a mass bath during the presentation of his book Capitalismo, socialismo y la trampa neoclasica (Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap).

The attendees covered Argentine rock hits, waved numerous banners and chanted against former Argentinean president Cristina Fernandez and also against Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez.

"Pedro, compadre, la concha de tu madre!" chanted the thousands of Milei's followers before a laughing and mocking Argentinean president, at odds with Sanchez over his attacks on Begona Gomez, which have triggered a diplomatic crisis between the two governments.

"Shut up, Mondino is going to ask me for overtime", Milei joked when he heard the chants against Sanchez, in reference to his foreign minister, Diana Elena Mondino, who as the person responsible for Argentina's international relations must deal with the diplomatic crisis with Spain.
Beyond these attacks, Milei brought out his heavy artillery for an audience that had been gathered for almost twelve hours in the vicinity of Luna Park. He referred to abortion as a "murderous agenda" and compared it to the "massacre of Jews" by the ancient Egyptians; he described the fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as "a left-wing gentleman", and blamed the "damned state" and "socialist goodness" for global misery.

In between anecdotes, the initial anticipation was replaced by a rushed and unbridled acceleration in the final minutes. "Viva la libertad, carajo!", Milei concluded in front of a Luna Park that had begun to empty out much earlier.

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1. Various from the event