General Discussion

The minute he took office, Milei (who shares a lawyer with the country's top convicted narco) began ruling by decree - enacting savage cuts to education, public works and provincial revenue sharing, for instance, without having passed a budget in two years now.

He also clawed US$100 million from the budget for "intelligence" - and, lo and behold, everyone from a decisive Senate vote to a former First Lady began showing up with million-dollar bribes ($1 million and $3 million, respectively) to do his bidding.

Which figures - since his witch-doctor sister, who pretty much runs the country, is now embroiled in a massive bribery scandal of her own.

The Senator switched his vote, and the First Lady "suddenly" remembered that former President Alberto Fernández (Milei's predecessor) "hit her for years" (she showed no bruises of any kind in the thousands of photos taken of her in the 4 years she was First Lady).

A recording has her taunting the hapless Fernández with demands for "$3 million, and this will go away."

Congress ordered him to return the funds; for the most part, he never did.