Milei arrived in Paris, where he is expected to meet Macron after tensions escalated between their countries over the Argentine soccer team’s derogatory chants about French players.
Argentine President Javier Milei leaves the Cathedral after attending an event marking the nation’s Independence Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. celebrations in Miami earlier this month shows triumphant Argentine players chanting a song considered racist toward French players of African heritage. “They play for France but their parents are from Angola,” the refrain goes, with some transphobic slurs mixed in.
In a widely shared social media post, she insisted that Argentina was not a racist country because, unlike France, “We never had colonies or second-class citizens. We never imposed our way of life on anyone.”French diplomats in Buenos Aires were seething. But more recently the presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adorni, has tried to distance Milei from what he called Villarruel’s “personal” and “unfortunate” comments.
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