Milei Visit to Far-Right Rally Prompts Harsh Spanish Rebuke
- Foreign minister demands public apology, recalls ambassador
- Argentine president accused socialist PM’s wife of corruption
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Spain’s Socialist government demanded an apology from Argentine President Javier Milei, saying the libertarian leader’s comments at a far-right rally in Madrid had badly damaged relations.
Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares has summoned Argentina’s ambassador in Madrid to a meeting, a day after Milei accused the prime minister’s wife of corruption and decried socialism as “cursed and carcinogenic.” On Sunday, Albares had announced that Spain was recalling its ambassador from Buenos Aires.