President Javier Milei echoes Trumpian criticism of the United Nations agency, blaming her for economic deficits during the Pandemic COVID-19.
Argentina said that it would withdraw from the World Health Organization, which has implemented an international agency responsible for coordinating public health responses.
The announcement on Wednesday echoes a Similar displacement Last month in the United States.
Far -right administrations currently govern the two countries, and President Javier Milei of Argentina has a close relationship with his American counterpart, Donald Trump.
The two leaders each criticized the World Health Organization for its management of the COVVI-19 pandemic.
An agency of the United Nations, the organization cannot demand that governments follow its advice, but it offers research and recommendations on how countries could collaborate to combat public health crises like pandemics.
On Wednesday, Milei blamed the World Health Organization for his advice on physical distancing during the Pandemic COVID-19.
“This is why we decided to leave such a harmful organization which was the branch of execution of the greatest experience of social control in history”, Milei wrote on social networks.
He punctuated his message with a campaign slogan: “Live Lived Freedom, damn.”
Milei was elected in 2023 in the middle of spiral inflation in Argentina. A black horse in the race, he ran on a platform for reducing government spending with his signature “Chainsaw” approach.
He described himself as an “anarcho-capitalist”. But while monthly inflation has stabilized under its direction, Argentina rate of poverty has climbed more than 50%.
Critics have castigated his administration for cutting key public services in the past year that could help resolve this crisis, including funding for popular soups who provide food to the poor.
Argentina contribute About $ 8.257 million at the World Health Organization in 2024.
In an official government press releaseHowever, Milei’s administration accused the organization of having increased the economic crisis of Argentina.
“The quarantines have caused one of the greatest economic disasters in world history,” said the official declaration.
He allegedly alleged that the self-employed models went against the 1998 Rome status, which establishes the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court on key international crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity .
WHO’s advice on self-Isolation supported the government of Milei, was itself a crime against humanity.
“In our country, WHO supported a government that has left children out of school, hundreds of thousands of workers without income, directed businesses and SMEs (small and medium -sized enterprises) to bankruptcy and has us still cost 130,000 lives “, his life”, his life “according to the declaration.
The Milei government has also questioned the integrity of research from the World Health Organization.
“Today, the evidence indicates that WHO’s recipes do not work because they are the result of a political influence, not based on science,” the statement said.
The animated rhetoric was a reflection of the similar order of Trump on January 20.
A few hours after being inaugurated in a second term as American president, Trump signed a executive decree Cancel US funding from the World Health Organization, alleging a “mismanagement of the COVVI-19 pandemic”.
Trump also accused the agency of an “inability to demonstrate the independence of the inappropriate political influence of the member states of the WHO”.
The United States is the largest contributor to the budget of the World Health Organization, responsible for 14.4% of its budget or almost $ 1 billion. Its withdrawal should cause reductions in cost – and potential declines of services.