Mirroring Trump, Milei Pulls Argentina From W.H.O.

President Javier Milei of Argentina announced on Wednesday to withdraw his nation from the World Health Organization, which is the last in a series of moves of Mr. Milei to mimic the efforts of President Trump to break with international norms and federations.

“We will never forget that these were architects of draconian locks,” Mr. Milei wrote on xreferring to the support of WHO with wide quarantines during the pandemic. He called the lock “one of the most comfortable crimes against humanity in history.”

“That’s why we decided to withdraw from such a nasty organization,” he added, “which acted as the implementing hand of the greatest social control experiment in history.”

President Trump signed an order withdraw the United States from In the first hours of his presidency, similarly to criticizing the treatment of pandemia and the cost of a member of the United Nations. Mr. Milei has long criticized Who – even writing a book that condemns pandemic policy in 2020 – but decided to get out of the organization only for weeks after Mr. Trump did the same.

If the United States and Argentina follow their plans, Liechtenstein will join the only UN Member States that are also not members of the UN Global Health Association.

This reflects the efforts of Mr. Milei to reconcile his nation with the approach of Mr. Trump’s, the commanded order, even if he comes to the detriment of previous allies and partnerships by Argentina.

Mr. Milei’s spokesman said on Wednesday that Argentina also questioned whether he would withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the main global Pact for the fight against climate change, as the United States did last month. Mr. Milei, like President Trump, publicly doubted science showing that human activity was dangerously warming the planet.

Shortly after becoming president in 2023, Mr. Milei canceled Argentina’s plans to join the BRICS Economic Association, led by China, saying that instead he wanted to bring his country closer to the United States.

The abandonment of WHO could eventually cost Argentina, which struggles under tens of billions of dollars of international debt.

Unlike the United States, which contributes to approximately 15 percent of the $ 6.8 billion budget in the amount of two years, Argentina pays a much smaller membership fee, is estimated at about $ 10 million a year from Argentine newspaper organization La Nación.

The benefits that Argentina receives from membership far outweighs costs, including monitoring epidemic, disease prevention and technology division, said Leandro Cahn, director of Fundación Huésped, a major public health organization in Argentina. “Problems with the Argentine Health System will not solve that they were not part of WHO,” he said.

Mr. Milei’s office said Argentina would remain a member of the pane American health organization. Mr. Cahn said this could allow the country to still receive deep discounts on vaccines and medicines that the members receive, but that was not clear.

While Mr. Milei tamed the extreme inflation of Argentina, the nation remains in a uncertain financial situation. Mr. Milei suggested that Argentina would need additional loans from the international monetary fund. The United States is the largest and most influential associate of the IMF.

In the middle of that background, Mr. Milei positioned himself as perhaps the most reliable ally of Mr. Trump on the global stage. He was one of the two world leaders, along with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Italy, behind Mr. Trump when he swore as president last month. And Mr. Milei plans to travel to the United States this month to speak at a conservative conference on political action ahead of President Trump.

Mr. Milei and Mr. Trump see her face to face on many topics, most prominent that she “woke up” by ideology threatens Western society. Mr. Milei gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month, who sharply criticized politics who want to help or protect people on the basis of their gender, race or sexuality.

“A large hook that appears as a common denominator in failed countries and institutions is a viral of alertness,” he said in a speech, mimicking the language of the billionaire Elon Musk. “This is a great epidemic of our time.”

He quoted “feminism, diversity, involvement, equality, immigration, abortion, environment, gender ideology”, as problematic consequences of “wokeness”. He added that parents who help young children were transition to various “pedophiles” sexes that make up abuse. His comments against gay and transgender rights have encouraged great protests last week across Argentina.

Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Milei banned their gender neutral language and many diversity policies from the Government.

Mr. Milei made these moves before Mr. Trump returned as president. Mr. Musk and others also drank Mr. Milei as inspiration for the work of Trump’s administration – led by Mr. Male – to drastically reduce the size of the US government. Mr. Milei has made a similar effort in Argentina and is expected to reveal plans for the second phase that would eliminate or combine 50 state agencies.

In other ways, Mr. Milei seems to take indications from Mr. Trump. Mr. Milei and his ministers recently tightened rhetoric against migrants. Mr. Milei’s spokesman, Manuel Adorni, said on Wednesday that the Government was working on new immigration laws “and safer boundaries.”

Last month, an Argentine governor posted plans to build a wall 200 meters long along part of the Argentine border with Bolivia, for which officials said to be often crossed illegally. Mr. Milei published the news on X, noting, “Great.”

Natalie Alcoba and Lucía Cholakian Herrera Contribution to reporting from Buenos Aires.