Argentine President Javier Milei slams Venezuelan and Brazilian socialist leaders at Madrid Forum

Argentine President Javier Milei has criticized Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s decision to “move forward“Christmas to cover up the regime’s ongoing brutal crackdown on dissidents during a speech Thursday at the latest gathering of the Madrid Conservative Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Milei also criticized Brazil and its far-left president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for the country’s decision to ban the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

The Madrid Forum is a conservative, anti-communist and anti-leftist group created in 2020 by the Disenso Foundation, a think tank of the Spanish populist party Vox. The group is organizing its third regional meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 5 to 6, 2024.

According to According to its organizers, the main objectives of the meeting are to express support for the Venezuelan people and to denounce the “lukewarm response of the international community” to Maduro’s continued attempts to fraudulently maintain power after the presidential electoral farce of July 28, as well as to “recover the spaces of freedom confiscated by the criminal left and the non-left in the Western world.”

The event will also address other topics, such as “the importance of consolidating conservative networks between Europe, the United States and Latin America, the state of the culture war against the left and the commitment to Israel’s right to exist and defend itself.”

Milei took part in the two-day conservative event on Thursday, delivering a speech in which he questioned the “party-state,” which he described as political structures that reject freedom “because their very survival depends on it.”

The Argentine president also issued a stern warning against socialism, which he described as a “bottomless abyss.” Milei recalled that Argentina was once a world power, but collapsed after adopting socialist ideas.

“We Argentines are prophets of an apocalyptic future that we are already living, but that the rest of the West still has ahead of it,” Milei said. “In the main countries of the free world, the ideas that have plunged Argentina into misery are increasingly widespread.”

After asserting that the only solution is “freedom and not state intervention to ruin our lives”, Milei described Europe, Britain and France as “the historical leaders of the free world, today torn apart by recurring cultural and social conflicts, where the response of governments is oppression and censorship”.

Milei went on to criticize the Venezuelan socialist regime and its latest actions:

Let’s look at the murderous dictatorship of the criminal Maduro in Venezuela, which – at this point – is directly a human cemetery, in which Christmas is being brought forward to October to hide the fact that the greatest electoral fraud in history has been committed and where – now – the one who won the elections is being imprisoned while the free world sits idly by.

It must be understood once and for all that for evil to triumph, it is enough for the righteous to do nothing, with their lukewarm and politically correct positions, or the imbeciles of the right-thinking centrism, the only thing they achieve is that the filthy leftism leads us forward. In addition, there are still degenerates in Argentina who are nostalgic for the Bolivarian revolution.

Milei continued his condemnation of Venezuelan socialists by criticizing Brazil for its decision to to forbid X after the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, refused to comply with a list of censorship orders issued by the minister of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, a self-proclaimed “anti-fake news” crusader.

Milei said:

And finally, let’s look at Brazil, where justice – addicted to small (the ruling Workers’ Party) — right now they want to ban X, which is nothing more than the public space where Brazilian and world citizens can express their voice and dissent. That is, they want to ban the space where citizens freely exchange their ideas.

“Who, except a tyrant who is wrong in everything, can condone such an act of oppression?” he continued, referring to to Lula, who defended the Brazilian court’s decision to ban X from his comments to CNN.

Maduro responded to Milei in remarks made at an official event Thursday evening.

“And then, forgive me for this comment, comes the idiot Milei in Argentina who protests that Maduro has brought Christmas forward,” Maduro said. “What do Milei, Venezuela and Christmas have to do with each other? He makes the lives of Argentines and Christmas bitter, and he feels bitter because the Venezuelan people start the party on October 1, the day Christmas begins.”

Lula has not publicly addressed Milei’s recent comments as of press time. The Brazilian president has maintained a standoff with Milei after the Argentine president repeatedly described him as an “angry communist” and “corrupt” in the past.

Lula has repeatedly said required that Milei apologize to him “and to the citizens of Brazil” for the statements he made in the past, acknowledging Lula’s many crimes convictions accused of corruption. Lula began demanding an apology in November 2023, shortly after Milei’s election.

In June, Milei answered to Lula and his demands for an apology, once again calling him “corrupt” and “communist” and stating that he would not apologize to the Brazilian people, asking: “Since when do you have to apologize for telling the truth?”