The Argentine president gave an interview on "After Market," the Neura Media program alongside Julián Yosovitch, following the announcement of the significant inflation data for the month of April.
When asked when the growth of Vaca Muerta will begin to be felt in the pockets of Argentines, Milei assured that the economic recovery has already begun and will be reflected in upcoming indicators. “Companies will expand again and you will see an improvement in real wages. When you have the numbers from April, you will see that we are indeed better,” he affirmed.
Additionally, he stated that leading economic indicators, such as credit and tax revenue, “are soaring”, and assured that they are already beginning to show a stronger recovery of economic activity. “Credit starts to recover, so activity begins to rise,” Milei affirmed.
Milei also highlighted the growth rate he projects for the Argentine economy under his administration and assured that, if the current economic course is maintained, the country will register an unprecedented expansion compared to the last decades. “If we continue like this, at the helm of the Executive Power, we will have grown the economy by 20%. When before you needed 20 years to reach that,” the President affirmed. “I will not stop until I put Argentina among the richest countries in the world,” he concluded.
The President again referred to his historical intention to eliminate the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic and assured that the monetary cleaning promoted by his Government ended up strengthening the Argentine peso. “I wanted to eliminate the Central Bank. To eliminate it, you had to clean it up, and the cleaning process was so successful that the currency appreciated,” Milei affirmed. In that line, he stated that “the success of the program is so strong that it becomes complex to advance against the Central Bank.”
In this context, Milei stated that macroeconomic stabilization generates new challenges different from those historically faced by inflationary Argentina. “Other problems arise, but they are different,” he explained. “If you become serious, the peso appreciates,” he affirmed.
Once again, Milei praised former President Trump strongly and stated that “the world was saved by less than a centimeter” when they attempted to assassinate him. “What Trump is doing is extraordinary, he closed 8 conflicts in the world. He is Gardel with an electric guitar,” the Argentine president affirmed.
He assured that the policies promoted by the American president positively impacted Argentina and directly linked Washington's hardening against the Venezuelan regime with the local political situation. “The quality of life thanks to Trump has just improved enormously. By cutting off the rumba from Venezuela, they stopped financing a bunch of sons of bitches here who wanted to stage a coup,” he affirmed. He also added: “Cuban spies also stopped coming in.”
President Javier Milei presents a graph
At the end of the interview, Milei was asked about the possibility of Argentina achieving an “investment grade” credit rating in the coming years. The President assured that the main obstacle remains the political uncertainty linked to the return of populism. “It is clear that if there were no kuka risk, we would have a B+ rating. But the ones who will get us out of there are not me, I am a means or a channel; the ones who will get us out are the Argentines,” he affirmed.
In that sense, he stated that true change will depend on a sustained cultural and political transformation over time. “The day that Argentines decide to be a free society and punish populist policies, it will come out,” Milei expressed before closing his intervention with a strong definition: “The key to Argentina's progress lies with the Argentines.”
At the beginning of the interview conducted in El Government received praise for the economic data from April. The Basic Food BasketFood (CBA) recorded an increase of just 1.1%, the lowest figure since August 2025. The food and beverage category rose 1.5% and the overall inflation was 2.6% (according to Indec), down from 3.4% in March. The year-on-year figure stood at 32.4%.
Javier Milei assured that the fight against inflation will continue until the index is zero. In Neura, he stated: "As far as inflation is concerned, the only figure that will leave us comfortable is that it be zero. Until that happens, the fight against inflation is not over”.
The president pointed fingers at the opposition, the media, and the business sector for orchestratingduring the electoral year of 2025"an attempted coup d'état" against his Government. The president linked this event to the victory of Adorni in CABA, after which a speculative attack against the currency would have begun to break the fiscal balance.
In this regard, he expressed: "After Manuel won in CABA, a speculative attack by politics against the currency began to break the fiscal balance, the media played against the economic program and filled the streets with bad intentions. There was an attempted coup d'état, the media, politicians, businessmen, and mercenary commentators were complicit".
The President also defended prudence in public administration and assured that behind every economic decision lies a direct responsibility for the lives of millions of Argentines. “You cannot forget that there are people behind, because there are people behind and if you take a wrong step they go hungry,” Milei expressed while explaining why the Government maintains a policy of strong economic discipline and fiscal balance.
In another part of the interview, the president praised former President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom he described as “geniuses” for the geopolitical strategy promoted by Washington in the face of the advances of Russia and China, and the situation in the Middle East.
“Trump is a total genius. He said: ‘there are three blocks, one that responds to Russia, one that responds to China, and America. America for Americans’,” Milei stated. He then particularly highlighted Rubio and affirmed: “The other genius is Marco Rubio, they play tag with planes.”
Javier Milei alongside Donald Trump.
The head of state also linked this global scenario with the strategic importance that Argentina will have in energy and mining matters in the coming years. “In that world, you need energy security and strategic minerals,” the President affirmed before highlighting the role that Pablo Quirno and Karina Milei played in the start of the current mining expansion process.
“I’m going to make a footnote. Did you see who started that mining revolution? Two people started it,” Milei expressed in reference to both officials, also recalling the first trips made to Canada in search of international investments for the sector. “They said we were going on a trip to mess around,” he added.
