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Buenos Aires

Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-22:51

The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, published this Thursday an image of himself on social networks, in which he is seen characterized as 'Terminator', the robotic character immortalized by

Arnold Schwarzenegger

in the film of the same name, and making a play on words with the best-known phrase from the second installment.

"Casta a la vista, baby" is the phrase that accompanies the image of a Milei turned into 'Terminator', playing with the phrase "Hasta la vista, baby", which the Austrian actor popularized in 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' ' (1991).

"Belliboni detected. Trade unionist detected. Governor detected. Deputy detected" reads the phrase that completes the controversial poster, in which it targets those who Milei considers enemies of his reform plan: the leader of the Polo Obrero, Eduardo Belliboni; unionists; governors and deputies, with whom he has just had a tough fight that has overturned his 'omnibus law'.

The image corresponds to an illustration by the cartoonist Nik, closely identified with the cause of the libertarian economist, and in it he presents Milei as the famous cyborg from the saga starring Arnold Schwarzenegger along with the expression that in Spain was translated as "Sayonara, baby ", which is the Japanese word used to say goodbye to someone.

The term "caste" is the one that Milei used throughout his electoral campaign - and continues to use it even as president - to refer to politicians and union members who maintain a series of privileges and, therefore, do

not want to know anything about his reform of the State,

which reduces this to a minimum.

All this arises during the president's second trip outside the country, a tour that has taken Milei to Israel and will end with his visit to Italy and the Vatican, where he will meet with Pope Francis.

The president's crosshairs pointing at these 'enemies' is not coincidental, since the Milei Government failed this week to get the lower house to vote on the particular articles of its law of Bases and Starting Points for the Freedom of Argentines, known such as the 'omnibus law', the libertarian's star project with which he sought

to deregulate the economy

and

minimize the presence of the State.

The point that generated the most tensions among legislators was the delegation of legislative powers to the Executive.

The ruling party had achieved general approval of the 'omnibus law' in Deputies on February 2, but, during the processing and voting of the articles, it was decided to return it to committee and the majority opinion is that the project has died , after Milei said that it cannot be scrapped, as the opposition intended.