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An interview with Javier Milei
The transcript of his meeting with our journalist
JAVIER MILEI, an Argentine presidential candidate, spoke to The Economist on September 4th in Buenos Aires. The conversation, which was automatically translated, has been lightly edited for clarity.
The Economist: Tell me about your intellectual trajectory. How do you define yourself ideologically and what does it mean to you to be a libertarian?