President Javier Milei’s third start-of-the-year speech in Congress was filled with aggressive insults, screaming and trading of accusations between him and the opposition. While he made some reform announcements, he gave very few details.

There was also no mention of the release of Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo from Venezuela, which occurred on the same day, thanks to the mediation of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), which Milei opposes.

The Libertarian leader gave the traditional March 1 presidential speech to kick off the ordinary sessions period during a legislative assembly session — meaning both deputies and senators were present — on Sunday night.

It is common for lawmakers from the ruling party or the opposition to holler and make noise during the speech — either to support or boo the president. However, what was unusual is that this time it was the president who behaved this way while he was speaking.

Milei engaged in an exchange of insults with some opposition members and drifted away from the text he was reading on several occasions, resulting in a highly aggressive tone for almost the entire time he was speaking.

“I’ll tell you something, kukas. I love taming you. I love making you cry. And most people love seeing you cry,” he told Peronist lawmakers during the speech, using a derogative term used for supporters of former........

© Buenos Aires Herald