LETTER FROM BUENOS AIRES
From now on, on your screens. The series about the ultra-liberal and far-right Argentine president, Javier Milei, was launched on Wednesday, September 11, “the platform of freedom”We were able to read in the first publication of the account dedicated to Milei, the series.
The Head of State himself promoted this six-episode saga by publishing the trailer on his personal account, which has 3.4 million subscribers, on August 27. Carefully edited with a background of thunderous music and sprinkled with slogans, the clip (exactly 1 minute and 41 seconds) set the tone: “The phenomenon that captivates the world”, “from nothing to president”, “the most epic campaign in history”.
Based on archives and previously unpublished images, the series aims to trace the meteoric rise of the 53-year-old ultra-liberal economist, from his past as a television polemicist to his arrival at the presidency on December 10, 2023. “I said that I had not come to herd lambs, but to awaken lions!”We heard from the beginning of the first episode, a phrase that Milei pronounced following the 2021 legislative elections, when, starting his political career, he was elected deputy for Buenos Aires.
nothing journalistic
The first two episodes will also return to this campaign, while the next four will focus on his journey to the presidency of Rivadavia – named after the first Argentine president – from the mandatory primary elections in August 2023 (a full-scale electoral test held two months before the elections), at the end of which he came first, until he won the second round on November 19 with almost 56% of the votes against a Peronist front despite being unified.
This documentary series has nothing journalistic about it. Its director and producer, Santiago Oria, does not hide it. “It is a propaganda film, in the good sense of the word”explains this former lawyer who has been working in cinema for just over ten years. A liberal and admirer of Javier Milei, he met the current Argentine president in the midst of the pandemic, through the mother of a friend.
At that time, Javier Milei was preparing to launch his new book, Pandemic (Galerna, 2020, untranslated), a disastrous essay on the consequences of lockdowns on the global economy, a work for which he was accused of plagiarism of a scientific article by the Mexican mathematician Salvador Galindo Uribarri.
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