Far-Right President Javier Milei Axes Argentina’s Culture Ministry
about 5 months ago (12/13/2023)
Far-Right President Javier Milei Axes Argentina’s Culture Ministry Skip to content Argentina's President Javier Milei lifts a chainsaw during a rally on September 25, 2023 in San Martin, Buenos Aires. (photo by Tomas Cuesta/Getty Images) Within his first 24 hours as president of Argentina, far-right leader Javier Milei signed his first Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU), dramatically reconfiguring the country’s federal government. Shortly after his swearing-in this past Sunday, December 10, the libertarian president signed a measure reducing the cabinet’s 18 departments to nine in an unsparing move to minimize public spending.