Chainsaw sputtering: Milei's experiment falters

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  The Economist.

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  Hello, and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  Today on the show,

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  what went wrong for golf in Saudi,

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  and the curious case of the disappearing elephants?

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  But first,

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  As we stepped into the office of President Javier Milei in Argentina,

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  right in front of us was a large gold chainsaw

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  with its teeth glinting at us.

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  Kinley Salmon is our Latin America correspondent.

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  I sat down with two colleagues to talk to Milei,

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  and he said to me, "That is my favorite toy."

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  It's of course his famous campaign symbol

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  for cutting spending, slashing taxes.

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  And he told me in our interview

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  that his chainsaw is working all day long

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  and that he's looking forward to really letting it rip

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  after he gets reelected next year.

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  Milei gets energized about his chainsaw above all,

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