Spain and Argentina exchanged barbs after Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente suggested that Argentine President Javier Milei was a drug user.
During an event in Salamanca on Friday (3), Puente suggested that Milei had ingested “substances” during the election campaign last year.
The Argentine president's office released a statement this Saturday (4) condemning the statements and also attacking Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
Milei accuses Sánchez of “putting Spanish women at risk by allowing illegal immigration” and damaging Spain’s integrity by making deals with separatists, while his left-wing policies have brought “death and poverty.”
This provoked a rebuke from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which said that the terms used in the Argentine declaration “do not correspond to the relations between the two countries and brotherly peoples”.
After Milei's election, a right-wing populist who took charge of the country in Decemberrelations between Argentina and Spain, which is governed by a left-wing coalition led by Sánchez's Socialist Party, have cooled significantly.
Milei publicly supported the far-right, anti-immigration Spanish party Vox.
Source: CNN Brasil
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