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Milei Vindicates 1973 Overthrow of Chile’s Allende in Santiago Speech

Milei urged a right-wing alliance and defended Chile’s 1973 coup while meeting Kast, as the forum drew over 40 speakers from 25 countries.

  • On Thursday, Argentine President Javier Milei visited Santiago, Chile, to address the Madrid Forum, where he sparked controversy by vindicating the 1973 overthrow of President Salvador Allende.
  • Fundacion Disenso, a think tank linked to Spain's Vox party, organized the fifth regional Madrid Forum meeting, which gathered over 40 speakers from 25 countries to promote conservative values.
  • During his speech, Milei labeled Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez "dirtier than a potato," dismissed the opposition as "dirty leftists," and defended his economic program against political pressures.
  • At the Palacio de la Moneda, President Milei held his fourth face-to-face meeting with President Jose Antonio Kast to discuss strategic cooperation and regional economic integration.
  • Tensions lingered over the Strait of Magellan, where Chilean Foreign Minister Francisco Perez Mackenna asserted "The Strait of Magellan is indisputably Chilean" following recent Argentine sovereignty claims.
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Santiago. The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, did not miss the opportunity to demonstrate the messianic and predatory style that he likes to practice, when, when inaugurating yesterday the ultra-rightist summit of the Madrid Forum, he labeled progressism as “much left-handed deniers of reality” and called the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, “more dirty than a pope,” who “was offended when I told him and all the people a…

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The Argentine president, Javier Milei, called this Thursday to coordinate the Latin American right against the left, which he accused of "colonizing" institutions, universities and media, during an ultra-right meeting held in Santiago.

·Warsaw, Poland
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On Thursday, September 3, Chile hosted the Madrid Forum, an event that brings together parties and organizations from the far right of Europe and America each year. For this 5th edition, the meeting took place in Santiago, with Chilean President José Antonio Kast, a founding member, as host. The participants celebrated "a new era" for the continent, after the electoral victories in recent months of right-wing and far-right leaders in Colombia, P…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Javier Milley called on Latin America’s right to “organize” against the left during his visit to Chile. Argentine President Javier Milley on Thursday urged right-wing forces in Latin America to “organize” to confront the left, which he accused of “colonizing” state institutions, universities and the media, during a far-right rally in Chile. “The left has been organizing at the regional level for decades” “The left has been organizing at the regi…

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The far-right Milley calls for organization to confront the left, as it has "colonized" state institutions, universities and media. The post Chile: The far-right president of Argentina calls for "organization" to confront the left appeared first on in.gr.

·Greece
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The Argentine president accused the left of "colonizing" institutions, universities and media in Latin America.

·Marousi, Greece
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CNN Chile broke the news on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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