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BUENOS AIRES, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Argentina's President Javier Milei on Wednesday replaced Foreign Affairs Minister Diana Mondino after she voted in favor of lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba at the United Nations.

Milei, a libertarian who took office in late 2023, is unabashedly pro-United States and has taken a cooler stance toward leftist trade partners in the region and overseas, including by taking steps to distance Argentina from Cuba and Venezuela.

Earlier on Wednesday, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly called on the United States to end its decades-long sanctions regime on Cuba, in a non-binding resolution opposed only by the U.S. and Israel.

Milei, who has said that he wants Argentina to be in line with the U.S. and Israel, shared a post on social media from a lower house lawmaker praising his government for "not supporting nor being an accomplice of dictators."

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Captain AnCap continues to be a clown.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Free market trade! Except Cuba, they don't get to trade.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Communists must be punished for overthrowing the fascist slaver regime that brought immense profits to the Imperialists, of course!

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes. They should have voted the dictator puppet out. That's how we got rid of Hitler and Mussolini, and besides, their close neighbors are all democracies who would never interfere in any other country's elections. Fruit companies aren't that important, you know.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Captain Ancap is useful for exactly one thing: whatever he does, the opposite is always the right thing to do.

He's the Argentine version of Piers Morgan's opinions, except the latter is at least right about gun control.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 1 month ago

I wish the United States would end it's embargo with Cuba. The moves toward doing that were, IMHO, one of the bright spots of the Obama Administration.

As a libertarian myself Milei is an idiot for following the United States on this. True libertarians, not those Mises Caucus assholes, are generally not okay with these kinds of trade barriers.