'We won’t be another star on the Yankee flag': Argentina’s Left closes campaign with anti-US protest - Video
The Argentine Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FIT-U) concluded its campaign on Tuesday with a defiant demonstration outside the US Embassy in Buenos Aires, denouncing what it described as President Javier Milei’s growing alignment with Washington and its President, Donald Trump.
Drums echoed through the streets as protesters carried banners reading “Out with the IMF” and “Out Yankees!” — a direct challenge to Milei’s pro-market agenda and his praise for Trump’s “anti-globalist” rhetoric. Some demonstrators set fire to a US flag, a symbolic rejection of what they called Argentina’s “submission” to US interests.
Myriam Bregman, a prominent Left Front candidate for Buenos Aires, said the location was chosen as a deliberate “anti-imperialist gesture”. “We do not want to be another star on the Yankee flag,” she told supporters. “That is what Javier Milei is proposing, that Argentina becomes a colony of the United States, where the most important decisions are made abroad.”
Bregman accused Milei of prioritising US approval and International Monetary Fund support over national sovereignty, arguing that his economic policies deepen Argentina’s dependency on foreign capital. She also claimed that Washington’s influence aims to “sink the country for its own gain,” particularly amid Argentina’s ongoing struggle with inflation and debt.
The rally marked the close of campaigning ahead of Argentina’s legislative elections on October 26, in which half the seats in the Chamber of Deputies and a third of the Senate will be up for renewal. More than 36 million Argentines are eligible to vote, both at home and overseas, in an election that could reshape the balance of power in a deeply polarised political landscape.
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