Each year, more than 1,000 southern right whales arrive from the cold waters near Antarctica to the gulfs of Península Valdés, in Argentina’s Chubut province, where they find favorable conditions for breeding and raising their calves. Between May and December, they become a defining feature of the Patagonian coastline, breaching or lifting their tails above the water close to shore. Although a small number of whales are found dead along the coast every year, the sharp increase in cases has alarmed scientists, who warn that this may become a record year for whale mortality.
Cientos de miles de personas desafiaron la intensa lluvia de este miércoles para reclamar que el presidente Javier Milei cumpla con la Ley de Financiamiento Universitario y pague lo adeudado…
Na noite de quarta-feira (14), empresários conservadores, influenciadores digitais e autoridades do governo dos Estados Unidos se reuniram no Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, na capital Washington, D.C., para a festa de gala da Hispanic Heritage, organizado pela plataforma financeira Latino Wall Street.
O homenageado do evento foi Javier Milei, presidente da Argentina. Seu principal aliado no Brasil, Eduardo Bolsonaro, foi um dos convidados de honra.
Na entrada, convidados trajados com roupas brilhantes e smokings cercaram Eduardo para tirar selfies e apertos de mão. Muitos perguntavam sobre o pai, Jair Bolsonaro, que cumpre em casa a pena de 27 anos de prisão por tentativa de golpe de Estado. Outros demonstravam entusiasmo com a liderança do irmão Flávio Bolsonaro no primeiro turno da disputa presidencial contra o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Eduardo conversou com veículos de comunicação identificados com o movimento MAGA (“Make America Great Again”, um dos slogans de Donald Trump), como a ex-boxeadora Cara Castronuova, uma das correspondentes da Casa Branca alinhadas ao governo. Ele também posou ao lado de Javier Negre, comunicador espanhol apelidado de “Rei Midas da viralidade”. Negre é sócio de Fernando Cerimedo, marqueteiro argentino de extrema direita, detido em agosto na Bolívia, acusado de envolvimento em ataque a tiros contra a ex-companheira.
Em determinado momento, na entrada do evento, uma mulher que parecia ser uma das convidadas segurou o braço de Eduardo e ambos olharam para baixo, compenetrados. Eles rezavam pelo Brasil. Quem também tietava Eduardo Bolsonaro era a autointitulada diplomata espiritual, consultora de direitos humanos e empresária gaúcha Luciana Pananos, que mora nos EUA.
Do lado de dentro, iniciada a cerimônia, os oradores no palco falavam sobre acabar com a criminalidade e derrotar o socialismo na América Latina. Na plateia, os convidados, que pagaram entre US$ 3 mil e US$ 10 mil para participar do evento, saboreavam almôndegas de wagyu (carne bovina de origem japonesa), pato defumado com amoras, abacate recheado grelhado e filé-mignon bovino defumado.
“Vamos expulsar o ditador comunista do Brasil”, bradou o homenageado da noite, Javier Milei, após abraçar calorosamente Eduardo, que deu chutes no ar como se estivesse expulsando Lula do posto. O presidente da Argentina disse ainda que os conservadores “não podem ceder um centímetro em nossa reconquista do hemisfério”.
“Um discurso inspirador”
Após a fala de Milei, Eduardo discursou. Ele ponderou que o resultado da eleição ainda não estava definido. Mas o tom era abertamente comemorativo. “Quando confirmarmos a vitória do meu irmão, o senador Flávio Bolsonaro, como presidente do Brasil, vamos entrar em uma nova era, que eu chamo de Era de Ouro da América Latina!”
O deputado cassado adotava um dos slogans de Donald Trump, que costuma dizer que o país vive uma nova “era de ouro” sob sua batuta. “Temos tudo para ser iguais aos Estados Unidos”, completou Eduardo.
Durante o discurso, ele também louvou outros presidentes de extrema direita na América Latina, como Nayib Bukele, de El Salvador, e o colombiano Abelardo de la Espriella.
“Amamos todos aqueles que dificultam a vida dos criminosos”, declarou, acrescentando que “pela primeira vez veremos todos os países [da América Latina] combatendo o narcoterrorismo”. O público aprovou e aplaudiu entusiasmado. Um empresário do setor imobiliário que atua em Honduras disse à reportagem que considerou o discurso “inspirador” e que o Brasil deveria adotar o “modelo Bukele”.
Flávio e Eduardo já visitaram o CECOT, o megacomplexo penitenciário para onde o governo Trump enviou imigrantes que, segundo relatos, foram torturados. Se a vitória de Flávio Bolsonaro se concretizar, o Brasil pode integrar a coalizão Escudo das Américas, formada por 19 países da região e liderada pelos EUA.
“O melhor ainda está por vir”, declarou Eduardo Bolsonaro, prometendo libertar o Brasil, começando por seu pai.
Mais que entusiasta da candidatura do irmão à Presidência, Eduardo é um dos nomes mais cotados para se tornar o próximo ministro das Relações Exteriores do Brasil em um eventual governo de Flávio. Desde que se mudou para os EUA, no início de 2025, o filho 03 de Bolsonaro perdeu o mandato de deputado federal por faltar a mais de 80% das sessões e também foi despojado do emprego como investigador da Polícia Federal por abandono de posto.
No início de outubro, o ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal Alexandre de Moraes expediu um mandado de prisão contra ele, após sua condenação a mais de quatro anos de prisão por fazer lobby junto ao governo Trump contra o Judiciário brasileiro. Mas, no universo MAGA, Eduardo é uma estrela e a eleição de seu irmão é tratada como um fato consumado.
Obra de arte autografada por Eduardo Bolsonaro mostra a América Latina sob a bandeira dos EUA
Em conversa com jornalistas antes do evento, Eduardo descartou as preocupações com a ingerência dos EUA nas eleições brasileiras e voltou a repetir alegações sem fundamentoque já foram contestadas: segundo ele, durante o governo de Joe Biden, a agência oficial de ajuda humanitária USAID, fechada por Trump em 2025, financiou ONGs e veículos de comunicação sob o pretexto de combater a desinformação, com o objetivo de impedir a reeleição de Jair Bolsonaro em 2022.
“O Brasil já sofreu uma interferência internacional. O que eu vejo agora é justamente o oposto”, afirmou. A primeira medida de um eventual governo de seu irmão seria “expurgar esse câncer chamado Alexandre de Moraes” do STF, disse ele, referindo-se ao ministro como um “tirano”. Caso contrário, seu irmão não conseguiria governar, na opinião do deputado cassado. Perguntado se voltaria para o Brasil mesmo com o pedido de prisão, Eduardo negou. “Eu não vou puxar uma cadeia sendo inocente, não”, afirmou.
Eduardo circulava pelo salão de baile acompanhado de perto pelo blogueiro de extrema direita Allan dos Santos. Foragido nos EUA desde 2021, quando teve prisão decretada pelo Supremo, o blogueiro é investigado em dois inquéritos sobre a criação de milícias digitais e propagação de fake news.
Eduardo Bolsonaro cercado pelo blogueiro foragido por Allan do Santos e por membros da Revista Timeline
Presença frequente em eventos conservadores nos EUA, Eduardo também conversou informalmente com Matt Schlapp, presidente da Conferência de Ação Política Conservadora (CPAC), e sua mulher, Mercedes, que mencionou os Bolsonaro em seu discurso e previu que Flávio será eleito presidente do Brasil. “Colocamos a América Latina de volta nos trilhos”, afirmou ela.
Já no fim da noite, enquanto os convidados dançavam ao som de La Bamba, Conga e Macarena, a reportagem conversou com Lena Ruseva, que vestia um longo vestido vermelho estampado com o rosto de Trump e a frase “Drill, baby, drill” (“Perfure, baby, perfure”, slogan de Trump em alusão à exploração de petróleo).
Autodenominada artista America First, Ruseva contou que Milei havia gostado tanto do retrato que ela fez dele especialmente para a ocasião que quis ficar com a obra. Ela também demonstrou orgulho do quadro que teria dado de presente a Trump em um de seus aniversários.
A artista trumpista Lena Ruseva em entrevista na chegada à festa
Algumas de suas obras estavam expostas no salão e seriam leiloadas, com lances iniciais de US$ 10 mil. Entre elas, havia uma representação da bandeira americana com o contorno da América Latina. Eduardo Bolsonaro assinou a obra com letras douradas.
“Disse a ele que ficaria com o quadro até que se tornasse o próximo presidente do Brasil”, contou ela.
On March 7, 2024, Cynthia Conforto’s cellphone exploded with calls. On the eve of International Women’s Day events, a sports journalist’s accusation of sexual assault against four Vélez Sarsfield players disrupted plans for 8M. Conforto had been in charge of the club’s Gender Department for only a few months; Vélez is one of the 30 clubs in Argentina’s professional league. The alleged incidents took place during a team training camp in Tucumán, about 750 miles from Buenos Aires.
Celebrated novelists J.M. Coetzee and F.M. Siccardi recently published a co-written book, Un mal salvaje (A Savage Evil), about their experiences coming of age in South Africa and Argentina, respectively. Both states were created by colonial forces that all but wiped out indigenous populations and cultures. This excerpt juxtaposes the authors’ childhood memories of life in the shadow of genocide, though neither would have known to call it that when they were young. In particular they recall the workers on their families’ land—men they somehow knew both intimately and not at all:
Freek did not see himself as a tragic figure, did not even see himself as a survivor. To see yourself as a survivor of the past you must have a firm conception of that past, you must know where you come from; and Ros and Freek had no such historical consciousness. First, they were illiterate. Second, it was of the essence of the genocide which they had survived that communal memory was erased.
If I were magically able to return to the 1950s and tell Freek about the Khoi who had pastured their stock at the Cape for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years before the Dutch came and laid waste to their society, about a people who were his ancestors, he would have thought it was just a story I was making up. Genocide is not just the destruction of a people, it is also the obliteration of that people’s store of memories and, with it, the destruction of their ability to see themselves historically.
On September 3, 2026, Argentine President Javier Milei addressed the nation on the issue of the Malvinas (Falkland) Islands. This programmatic speech is noteworthy be-cause Milei had previously taken a more cautious position on the islands and advocated resolving the long-standing territorial dispute with the United Kingdom through diplomatic means. However, in this address, the […]
Far-right Argentine President Javier Milei addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 23, giving a speech which provoked strong reactions. The South American head of state also participated in a series of high-level meetings.
One of his most quoted lines from his New York City trip has been: “Argentina is the new promised land.”
This is not the first time Milei has used religious concepts and ideas from the Judeo-Christian tradition to explain his political stance, but it is the first time the Argentine president has equated his country, in economic and political terms, with the land of Abraham and his descendants.
This is even more telling when one considers Milei’s extremely close relationship with Israel and ardent defense of its policies of war and genocide across West Asia, as well as the admiration he professes for the Jewish religion.
Milei also emphatically underscored this during his address to the UN General Assembly: “We also made a geopolitical choice: we have unambiguously aligned ourselves with the West … We condemn the Iranian regime’s attacks on the State of Israel.”
And this is an indisputable fact. Since the beginning of his term, Milei has not only aligned himself with the geopolitical interests that the Trump administration has vigorously pursued, but has also become one of Israel’s staunchest allies in the region.
This is quite impressive, considering that President Noboa in Ecuador, De la Espriella in Colombia, and others have also expressed a kind of unwavering alliance with Tel Aviv.
That is why Milei has not limited himself to diplomatic rhetoric, but has pulled the strings of power to designate Iran’s main military force (currently in conflict with Israel and the United States) as a terrorist organization.
“We declare the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, just as we continue to seek justice for the two attacks we suffered on Argentine soil in 1992 and 1994,” Milei said at the UN, referring to two attacks in Argentina against the Israeli Embassy and the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA). The Argentine justice system, advised by Israel and the United States, identified Hezbollah and Iranian citizens as the perpetrators.
Free-market capitalism and Artificial Intelligence
Another topic Milei addressed during his appearance was his staunch defense of free-market capitalism in which the state plays a minimal role: “We do not want to lose again; that is why we embrace free-market capitalism.”
In this regard, Milei once again highlighted his government’s strong support for artificial intelligence companies and the tycoons behind them. It should not be forgotten that the Argentine government signed a working and information-sharing agreement with Palantir, whose co-founder, Peter Thiel, purchased a property on Argentine soil.
This is clearly part of Milei’s neoliberal agenda to attract investment from major foreign capitalists, among whom the owners of technology companies (who are so interested in resources such as lithium, copper, and others that abound in South America) currently stand out.
However, recent statements by former employees of these companies regarding the danger that the development of AI poses to humanity have created some unease around the world. But Milei says that this is precisely the time to move forward: “Prudence does not mean fear, and what’s more, fear should under no circumstances automatically lead to obedience … where many see a threat, we see a frontier.”
Criticism of the UN
Probably one of the most important aspects highlighted in Milei’s speech was his harsh criticism of the UN and its role in current geopolitics: “Today, unfortunately, it is time to acknowledge that this sacred pact has, in fact, been broken.”
But not content with merely pointing out the shortcomings, Milei asserted (very much in line with Trump) that the UN has become a venue for certain people to amass wealth: “It has become a useless organization that serves only to feed a caste of fatally arrogant parasites disguised as well-meaning bureaucrats.”
Hence, he asserted that resolutions ultimately have no real effect on policy. He cited the example of the Malvinas Islands, a territory disputed with the United Kingdom: “What good is a resolution if, for decades, the other party can act contrary to it, and that resolution remains intact in the archives but is powerless in the face of reality?”
Criticism of Milei’s speech
Milei’s statements, while applauded by his supporters, have drawn widespread criticism in Argentina. Much of the criticism has focused on the fact that Milei now seems to staunchly defend Argentina’s right to control the Malvinas Islands, whereas in the past he was cautious and even reluctant to adopt a patriotic stance against the United Kingdom – something both the Argentine left and right have done. “We’re surprised that Milei now remembers when he used to talk about self-determination,” said Axel Kicillof, governor of the province of Buenos Aires.
Likewise, critics pointed out the apparent contradiction in Milei’s rhetoric between extolling the right to self-determination and aligning himself with the interests of Washington and Tel Aviv: “Milei’s stance doesn’t surprise me. The truth is that this line of subservience—and I say this very clearly—is directed at Trump and Netanyahu. Even the terminology is consistent with what Trump proposed and his ideas on the deregulation of artificial intelligence, as well as his view that Argentina’s natural resources are available to anyone who wants to take them,” said Kicillof.
Regarding Milei’s economic rhetoric, Patria Grande leader Juan Grabois said: “Besides being an ignorant imbecile, besides being a lobotomized parrot who parrots Trump, besides plagiarizing Gramsci without knowing he’s “a filthy communist,” what Milei is saying is that we’re basically going to hand over our territory, critical minerals, energy, and national sovereignty to the technocracy.”
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I found myself asking harder questions about the young men around him, about the relationships, the patronage and the blurred line between generosity and dependency. Mark had paid for many of them to study law, medicine or business. He had even helped one man living in the United States without legal status by paying for him to attend a Spanish-language school.
None of it suggested scandal or anything obviously illegal. But parts of it no longer sat comfortably with me.
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A sailor giving a Patagonian woman some biscuit for her baby. Credit: William C. Sturtevant
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