Presidential Front-Runner Would Unshackle Argentine Farming, Oil
- Shock election-race leader Javier Milei would scrap soy taxes
- He’d also privatize shale driller YPF and ditch EV battery bid
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The shock front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election, libertarian Javier Milei, would strip out state intervention from the country’s giant farming industry to unleash an export boom.
Free-market devotee Milei vowed to quickly dismantle policies that have held back agricultural investments this century. He would unify foreign exchange rates, scrap export taxes and quotas and remove direct meddling in food prices.