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Milei assures that the battle for freedom “is not won” and asks not to “go down”

Argentine President Javier Milei said this Thursday at the Davos Forum (Switzerland) that the battle of political leaders who fight for freedom “is not won” and that it will not end until most Western countries “embrace the ideas of freedom.”

“Our battle is not won,” Milei said in a speech before the plenary, in which he said that it will not come to an end until most Western countries “embrace the ideas of freedom,” and assured that until then they should not “go down”.

Milei participates for the second time in the World Economic Forum (WEF), which he attended in 2024 just a month after his inauguration, and recalled that, since then, he no longer feels alone because the world “has embraced Argentina” and his country has been “a global example of fiscal responsibility”, “of how to end the problem of inflation”, and of a new way of doing politics.

Also, he added, because throughout this year he has found “companions in this fight for the ideas of freedom in all corners of the planet,” among whom he has cited the “wonderful” Elon Musk, the “fierce Italian lady” Georgia Meloni, the Hungarian Viktor Orbán, the Salvadoran Nayib Bukele and the Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, in the United States.

“Slowly an international alliance has been formed of all those nations that want to be free and that believe in the ideas of freedom,” he added.

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In front of a practically full auditorium, in whose front row was sitting his sister and general secretary of the Argentine Presidency, Karina Milei, the president accused the Davos Forum, but also supranational organizations such as the European Union, of promoting the ‘woke’ ideology, which he described as “sinister and murderous”.

“No one can play innocent here. They have worshiped a sinister and murderous ideology for decades as if it were a golden calf and they have moved heaven and earth to impose it on humanity,” he said.

At the same time, he said that he assured that multilateral credit agencies “have been an extortionative arm” and many national states, and in particular the EU, “have been and are an armed arm.”

In his speech he addressed the leaders of the world, both business and politicians, to whom he assured that the political formulas of recent decades “have failed” and “are collapsing on themselves” and “the script of the last forty years has been exhausted”.

“It’s time to get out of that script and the time to be bold and encourage yourself to write your own verses, because when the ideas and texts of the present say all the same and say wrong things, being brave consists precisely in being extemporaneous, consists of going back, not being dailled,” he added.

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After assuring that that is what Argentina is doing, “return to liberalism,” and trusting that this is what Trump will do in the United States, he invited all the great free nations of the world to do so, which he asked to “stop in time what, in all lights, is a path that leads to catastrophe.”

“What I am proposing is that we make the West great again,” he concluded, alluding to the slogan of the Republican president.

International

Armed forces target illegal mines in Northern Ecuador with bombing raids

Ecuador’s Armed Forces carried out an operation on Monday — including airstrikes — against illegal mining in the town of Buenos Aires, in the country’s north, Defense Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo reported.

The mountainous, gold-rich area has been a hotspot for illegal mining since 2017, located in the Andean province of Imbabura.

In 2019, former president Lenín Moreno deployed around 2,400 soldiers to the region in an attempt to curb the illegal activity. “The operation began with mortar fire, followed by gunfire and bombing runs by Supertucano aircraft,” Loffredo said in a video released by the Defense Ministry.

He added that the operation would continue on Tuesday with patrols across the area to locate possible members of “irregular armed groups that may have crossed from the Colombian border.”

The Armed Forces stated on X that the intervention focused on the “complete elimination of multiple illegal mining tunnels” in the areas known as Mina Nueva and Mina Vieja.

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The operation coincided with the deployment of a military and police convoy into Imbabura, which has been the epicenter of protests against President Daniel Noboa since September 22, following his decision to scrap the diesel subsidy.

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Caracas shuts embassy in Oslo without explanation following Machado’s Nobel win

Venezuela has announced the closure of its embassy in Norway, just days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Venezuelan diplomatic mission provided no explanation for its decision on Monday.

“It is regrettable,” a ministry spokesperson said. “Despite our differences on several issues, Norway wishes to keep the dialogue with Venezuela open and will continue to work in that direction.” The ministry also emphasized that the Nobel Committee operates entirely independently from the Norwegian government.

In its announcement, the Nobel Committee stated that Machado met the criteria established by Alfred Nobel, “embodying the hope for a different future, where the fundamental rights of Venezuelans are heard.”

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Sheinbaum: Urgent to restore access to towns cut off by heavy rains

Thousands of military personnel and civilians in Mexico worked tirelessly on Tuesday to clear roads blocked by the torrential rains of recent days, which have left more than 300 communities cut off across central and eastern regions of the country. Authorities also launched mass fumigation efforts in several affected areas to prevent the spread of dengue fever.

The official death toll remains at 64, though dozens of people are still missing. President Claudia Sheinbaumacknowledged that the government does not yet know the full situation in many of the isolated villages, which range in population from 500 to 1,000 inhabitants.

“The reopening of roads is one of the greatest urgencies,” Sheinbaum said. “It’s essential to guarantee air bridges, food supplies, clean water, and a proper census of the isolated communities so we can determine the condition of every person living there.”

Private construction companies are also assisting the effort with heavy machinery and technical support to help reopen highways and reconnect rural areas.