Two events by Javier Milei’s forces have set off alarm bells. One was the launch of think tank far-right Faro Foundation, attended by big businessmen who paid for the dinner in dollars. The other, the presentation of the group “The Forces of Heaven”, whose promoter called it the “armed arm” and “praetorian guard” of the president, with an iconography reminiscent of fascists behind it.
The rally at which Fundación Faro was presented brought together 500 people who paid $25,000 for the cover, among them businessmen related to the Argentine president. That is to say, it achieved a million-dollar collection. The Faro Foundation is an organization created by political scientist Agustín Laje, who wrote several books about Milei and is one of those who support the most extremist narrative of the ruling party La Libertad Avanza. The president calls Laje “the hero of the cultural battle.”
As part of the names that feed this new power plant of ultraliberal ideas is Axel Kaiser Barents von Hohenhagen, a Chilean-German influencer who wrote, among other books, “The Populist Deception”, critical of the progressive governments of Latin America.
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Organizing the dinner was Georgie Neuss, one of the owners of the Puerto Madero Yacht Club, a friend of Milei’s advisor, Santiago Caputo, and with connections to the PRO, party of former president Mauricio Macri. Among the attendees were Claudio Bellocopitt, the owner of the prepaid medicine company Swiss Medical, and José Luis Manzano, former minister of Carlos Menem’s government and today linked to several businesses. Endeavor, the chamber of companies worth more than 1 billion dollars, is a key reference in the public support and financing program.
Laje, leader of Fundación Faro, participated in the event of the libertarian militias entitled “Forces of Heaven”, which had iconography with fascist aesthetics. “Argentina, at this moment, is divided, but it is good that it is divided, because it is divided between the good and the bad,” shouted the representative of the think tank. The scandal arose when Daniel Parisini, known as “Gordon Dan”, responsible for the assembly of “The Forces of Heaven”, said that the group “is the armed wing” of the milleistas.
“We are Milei’s most loyal soldiers, those who were there from the beginning and will be there until the end defending our leader’s country project,” said Parisini, tweeter and host of the streaming program La Misa. He calls himself a follower of Javo – as he calls Milei – and has participated in the group called El Club de los Viernes, which emerged from the Vox experience where the ultras gave presentations and conferences linked to current issues that did not have space in the media. traditional. In fact, Vox leader Javier Ortega Smith participated in one of the Friday Club talks talking about the challenges of the cultural battle.
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Valeria Di Croce, author of the book Milei’s ark, explains to eldiario.es that the far-right movement’s way of communicating is that of influencers who call for events and provoke: “The communication strategy of the hard core is similar to the language codes of Trumpism and the dissemination of fake news. A language of domination, of subjugating the ‘bad’ other. They copy the ideas of Steve Bannon, of the alt right and Roger Stone, also close to Trump. ‘We are at war’, say these representatives of the Forces of Heaven, and they take it from the country of the North. They are soldiers of the cultural battle and Laje is a kind of general. “They are provocative.”
The indignation generated in the Argentine media by the description of the “armed arm” and the iconography of the event was likely to have been sought. Then there would come an explanation from the “Forces of Heaven” that it was actually a metaphor to talk about the power of the cell phone.
Di Croce affirms that in Argentina there has been a degradation of public debate. “Laje said that the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo are murderers. It ends up being an ethical dilemma to spread such a hateful statement. From the speech ‘we must kill all Kirchnerists’ we moved on to the attempted assassination of former vice president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Why doesn’t the Judiciary put a stop to violent speech? How does the democratic system confront these hateful slogans?” asks the author.
The truth is that from the virtual world where messages and speeches circulate, influencers began to occupy public space. The deputy of the Socialist Party, Esteban Paulón, asked to summon Daniel Parisini, Agustín Laje and other representatives of the “Forces of Heaven” to court for “incitement to hatred, public intimidation and incitement to violence.” Paulón explained: “The organization of a group that calls itself the armed wing or praetorian guard is not only contrary to social peace, but also represents a concrete threat to the rights and guarantees of citizens.”
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