President Javier Milei from Argentina announced plans to withdraw his nation from the World Health Organization on Wednesday, the latest of Mr. Milei’s movements that imitate President Trump’s efforts to violate international standards and alliances.
“We will never forget that they were architects of draconian locking,” Mr. Milei wrote on xReferring to the WHO support for wide quarantines during the pandemic. He called “one of the most serious crimes against humanity in history.”
“That’s why we decided to withdraw from such a dangerous organization,” he added, “which functioned as a coercive arm of the greatest experiment of social control in history.”
President Trump signed an order to Download the United States from WHO In the first hours of its Presidency, a similarly criticizing UN Agency for handling pandemics and the cost of being a member. Mr. Milei has long criticized the WHO – even in 2020 he wrote a book condemning pandemic policy – but he decided to pull out of the organization Weeks after Mr. Trump did the same.
If the United States and Argentina follow their plans, they will join Liechtenstein as the only UN members who are also not members of the UN Global Health alliance.
This reflects Mr. Milei’s efforts to deal with his nation with the approach of Mr. Trump’s burned country of the International Order, although he is at the expense of previous allies and partnership in Argentina.
Mr. Milei’s spokesman said on Wednesday that Argentina also examines whether to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the main global pact in the fight against climate change, as it was last month. Mr. Milei, like President Trump, publicly doubted science that human activity dangerously warms the planet.
Shortly after he became president in 2023 in 2023, Mr. Milei canceled Argentina’s plans to join the Brics Economic Alliance led by China and said that instead he wanted to move his country closer to the United States.
Leaving the WHO could end up standing by Argentina, which is fighting under tens of billions of dollars of international debt.
Unlike the United States, which contributes to about 15 percent of the budget of $ 6.8 billion in two years, Argentina pays a much smaller membership fee, estimated to be about $ 10 million a year by the Argentine intelligence organization La Nación.
Argentina receives the benefits of membership far from the costs, including focusing focus, prevention of diseases and sharing technology, said Leandro Cahn, director of Fundación Huésped, a large public health organization in Argentina. “Problems that the Argentine Health System will not be solved by not part of the WHO,” he said.
Mr. Milei said that Argentina would remain a member of the Pan-American Health Organization. Mr. Cahn said that this may allow the country to receive deep discounts on vaccines and the drugs that members receive, but it was not unclear.
While Mr. Milei twisted extreme inflation of Argentina, the nation remains in an uncertain financial situation. Mr. Milei suggested that Argentina would need other loans from the International Monetary Fund. The United States is the largest and most influential contributor to the IMF.
In the middle of this background, Mr. Milei stood up as perhaps the most reliable ally of Mr. Trump on the global scene. He was one of the two world leaders along with the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, behind Mr. Trump when he was sworn as president last month. And Mr. Milei plans to travel to the United States this month to speak at a conservative political event conference before President Trump.
Mr. Milei and Mr. Trump see his eyes on many topics, the most important that the “awakened” ideology threatens Western society. Last month, Mr. Milei presented a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland Davos in Switzerland, which sharply criticized politicians trying to help or protect people on the basis of their gender, race or sexuality.
“The large anvil, which appears as a common denominator in unsuccessful countries and institutions, is the virus of the awakened mind,” he said in a speech, imitating the language by billionaire Elon Musk. “This is a great epidemic of our time.”
He quoted “feminism, diversity, integration, justice, immigration, abortions, environmentalism, gender ideology” as the problematic consequences of “Wokeness”. He added that parents who help small children to different sex are “pedophiles” who commit abuse. His comments against the rights of Gay and Transgender last week made large protests throughout Argentina.
Mr. Trump and Mr. Milei banned gender neutral language and many diversity policies from the government.
Mr. Milei made these movements before Mr. Trump returned as a president. Mr. Musk and others also attributed Mr. Mileim as an inspiration for the work of Trump’s administration – led by Mr. Musk – to drastically reduce the size of the US government. Mr. Milei has made similar efforts in Argentina and is expected to soon reveal plans for the second phase that would eliminate or combine 50 state agencies.
In other ways, Mr. Milei seems to take allusions from Mr. Trump. Mr. Milei and his ministers recently sharpened their rhetoric against migrants. Mr. Milei, Manuel Adorni, said on Wednesday that the government was working on new immigration laws “and safer boundaries”.
Last month, the Argentine Governor announced plans to build a 200 -meter -long wall along a part of the Argentine border with Bolivia, which officials said that it was often illegally exceeded. Mr. Milei published the reports on X and noted, “Excellent”.
Natalie Alcoba and Lucia Cholakian Herrera Messages from Buenos Aires contributed.
