In an interview with an
Italian television channel
, President Javier Milei spoke this Monday about his approach to Pope Francis with whom he held a meeting of more than an hour in the Vatican.
After the harsh criticism that he had expressed against the Supreme Pontiff during the electoral campaign, Milei acknowledged that he had to
"reconsider some positions"
because he has "understood in recent times, among other things, that the Pope is the most important Argentine, he
is the leader of Catholics in the world".
"Consequently, all this implies something very, very important: it represents a very important institution, especially in a country like Argentina, which has so many Catholic roots. Consequently, I had to reconsider some positions and, from that moment, we began to build a positive bond," he emphasized.
In another passage of the interview, which will be broadcast in full tonight, Milei maintained that "
the State is the enemy, a criminal association"
and communism, "a disease of the soul."
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, with the Italian journalist Nicola Porro.
Photo EFE.
"Philosophically I am an anarcho-capitalist and therefore I feel a deep contempt for the State. I believe that the State is the enemy, I believe that the State is a criminal association," he said in a note to the "Quarta Reppublica" program on the Retequattro network.
"As Oppenheimer said, the method used in the market is investment, trade, and the method of the State is precisely theft, and therefore the State is not only the largest criminal organization in the world, but also the largest stationary thief in the world," he said.
At this point, he added: "A thief attacks from time to time, but every time you go to buy something in a place, the State is stealing from you through taxes; therefore, the State
steals from you every day" .
"But the State has the power to arrest people, politicians are not affected, they do not see their power at stake. But at this point I realized that the only way to enter the system was to blow it up," he added.
The Argentine president, Javier Milei, with the Italian journalist Nicola Porro.
Photo EFE.
The president also described as "cowardly communists" "many socialists who want to achieve this in the long term."
"Let's put it another way. Look, one of the things we have done
in these 50 days has been to initiate and implement structural reforms
. Of these reforms, 350 were considered urgent and 650 were included in a law, that is, the law of freedom for grassroots Argentines. And that is interesting, because the central axis of all this is that it refers to returning power and freedom to Argentines," he pointed out.
"And then there is a second point, another point: moving towards more competitive market structures," he adds.
Milei also expressed that he previously thought that
communism "was a mental problem
," but then he realized that "it was something much worse, that it was a disease of the soul."
"When socialism has been applied well, more than 6 million human beings have been murdered," she noted.