Commodities
Free Marketeer Leading Argentine Election Seen Rocking Commodities
- Libertarian zealot Javier Milei won Sunday’s key primary vote
- He’d scrap farm taxes and rip away intervention in oil markets
Javier Milei.
Photographer: Anita Pouchard Serra/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Javier Milei, a libertarian outsider who’s taken a surprise lead in the race for Argentina’s presidency, would shake up the country’s powerhouse commodity industries like none of his rivals.
Argentina is a top crop and beef exporter, and the world’s fastest-growing lithium producer. It also sits on copper and shale oil and gas riches, and has potential to bring plenty of those resources to global markets.