Photo source: Foreign Affairs By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront When Javier Milei became Argentina’s president in December 2023, he would not be the first of the country’s leaders to come to power by boldly promising an end to stagnation. For decades, new leaders, left and right, have entered office with radical reform programs meant to mark a sharp break with the past. None of them has had more than temporary success in breaking the country out of myriad illnesses that have characterised most of its modern history. Argentines elected Milei, a libertarian outsider who entered politics only two years ago. It is because they were fed up after years of economic instability. But his electoral campaign was dominated not just by the catastrophic state of the economy but also by Milei’s eccentricities. An admirer of former presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, he promised to bring down public spending, shut down Argentina’s central bank, and ado...