Madrid and Buenos Aires exchanged barbs this Saturday (4), after the Spanish Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, suggested that the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, was a drug user.
During a panel discussion in Salamanca on Friday (3), Puente suggested that Milei ingested “substances” during the 2023 election campaign.
Milei’s office issued a statement on Saturday condemning the comments and attacking Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
He accused Sánchez of “putting Spanish women at risk by allowing illegal immigration”, damaging Spain’s integrity by making deals with separatists and said his policies had brought “death and poverty”.
This provoked a response from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which stated that the terms used in the Argentine statement “do not correspond to relations between two brotherly countries and peoples.”
Following the election of Milei, a right-wing populist who took power in December, relations between Argentina and Spain, governed by a left-wing coalition led by Sánchez’s Socialist Party, cooled significantly.
Milei was publicly supported by the Spanish far-right anti-immigration party Vox.
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