Milei spoke of a "plebiscite between two models of the country" and of a government "with social consensus but without political consensus"

During his nineteen hours in Miami, President Javier Milei 's main event was a 30-minute speech he gave at the Kaseya Center to some 10,000 people who attended the America Business Forum.

The rest of his time was spent on activities within the hotel, including a 50-minute meeting with Mendoza businessman José Luis Manzano. Milei, like his sister Karina and the Ministers of Economy and Foreign Affairs, Luis Caputo and Pablo Quirno, kept a low profile in the city .

The most relevant thing was the speech he gave in the afternoon, between 6:10 and 6:40 p.m. (local time), in which he defended his reforms, celebrated the recent victory in the legislative elections and, incidentally, asked Americans not to be intimidated by some local results, referring to the victory of Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York.

Milei spoke the day after Donald Trump did, in the same venue . Naturally, the US president's presence was the highlight of a forum that brought together politicians, business leaders, and athletes.

Trump nearly filled the arena where the Miami Heat play in the NBA. Milei didn't, but there was a good turnout, about 60% of the stadium's capacity , far more than important business leaders and even Lionel Messi himself, who closed the opening day. As Clarín anticipated, the president was presented with the key to the city of Miami.

Milei's visit to a forum with a clear right-wing orientation showed him at ease, with an audience that applauded and celebrated each intervention and shouted three times in a row: "Long live freedom, damn it!", to which the Argentine president also added a "Make America Great Again", Trump's classic catchphrase.

Milei spoke after JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon , but before former Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal and Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who closed the event late into the night.

Although he couldn't cross paths with him at this meeting in Miami, Milei left a message for Donald Trump and the American people, two days after the victory of the democratic-socialist Zohran Mamdani, elected mayor of New York, the most important city in the country.

"Don't be intimidated by some local results," Milei said at the start of his presentation, alluding to US politics.

After that, he made a special mention of Lionel Messi, who had been in the same place the day before. He described him as "one of the most important athletes in the world" and joked that "I can also congratulate a left-footed person," alluding to the star's left-footedness and his political differences with left-wing leaders.

Milei also commented on the current situation in Argentina. He reminded the audience that "my party has just won a historic victory in the legislative elections."

He added: " We did everything that traditional politics said not to do , and we were guided solely by ethical and moral principles. And the good people of Argentina responded with a resounding victory: we won the national popular vote and overcame a 14-point deficit in the province of Buenos Aires." He also defended the labor and pension reforms being promoted by the government.

Milei continued talking about the "Kirchner risk," discussing how a potential success or return of Kirchnerism would impact the markets. He compared it to what has happened in Miami.

"It's gotten in here somewhere on the East Coast," he said, comparing Kirchnerists to socialists. "They disguise themselves as lambs and are worse than ravenous wolves: it's what we call the Kuka risk, the Kirchnerist risk, the risk of socialism," he explained.

Regarding socialism, he continued: "We have already seen how decades of statism transformed Argentina from a country destined for greatness into a country in ruins. We have the duty and the challenge to rebuild it."

"The key point is that two out of three Argentinians want this path, two out of three Argentinians do not want to go back to the past, they do not want any more 21st century socialism , they realized the lie," he added.

He emphasized: "These elections were a plebiscite between two models of the country, the model of freedom and capitalism with its main battle cry, or the model of servitude that we describe as its Goliath: the deficit, monetary emission, debt and obviously impoverishment."

Milei also addressed the challenges his political group faced in stabilizing the economy after the legacy inherited from Kirchnerism. "We were able to see in numbers the magnitude of the political risk our program always had to contend with," he reflected.

"This is because we have a sector of politics that is so destructive, so far removed from the common good, that it puts the entire country at extremely high risk . Now that they are further than ever from returning to power, we can dispel that fear," the President explained.

He also commented: "Historically, most stabilization plans had political consensus. What happened in Argentina was unprecedented. We implemented a successful stabilization plan with social consensus, yes, but without political consensus. The destabilizing attacks were harmful to society."