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7. Milei has a real problem there though: his own right-wing voters
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 05:12 PM
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Argentine right-wing voters - particularly those from Buenos Aires - are utterly obsessed with what they see as the "browning" of Argentina.

To a person, they'll regale you with tales of how "almost everyone here was white until democracy returned (in 1983)."

And how this - and not massive offshoring by elites, and the foreign debt taken on to finance it - is what "has ruined the country."

And this group, are (for the most part) rabid Milei backers.

If he signs anything that implies allowing "negros de mierda" (an epithet racists use for anyone dark-skinned, mainly the indigenous) into the country, they'll turn on him quickly - and they're all he has anymore (having ruined an already bad economy).

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