Spain and Argentina are on the brink of diplomatic crisis after an exchange of poisonous accusations. It all started, it seems, with a statement from the Spanish transport minister, Óscar Puente. According to the Sanchez government representative, Javier Milei took unspecified “substances” during the electoral campaign that led him to the presidency of Argentina. Today, Saturday 4 May, in response, a very harsh statement arrived from the Casa Rosada against Pedro Sanchez. The Spanish Prime Minister is accused of causing “poverty and death to the Spanish middle class” with his policies. Not only that, according to the official note from Milei’s office, Sanchez would attack the unity of Spain, by coming to terms with the Catalan independentists, as well as the safety of Iberian women, “by allowing the illegal immigration of those who attack their safety”. He made unheard of accusations from a government of a theoretically friendly country. In response. And so Spain forcefully denounced the statements of the Argentine presidency: «The Spanish government categorically rejects these unfounded words, which do not reflect the relations between the two countries and their brotherly peoples», replied the Foreign Ministry in Madrid. Milei, on the other hand, is expected in Spain in two weeks, between May 18 and 19, to participate in an event organized by the Spanish far-right party Vox which is fiercely opposed to Sanchez.
