Steve Cortes, president of the League of American Workers, said May 22 that U.S. media outlets have targeted Argentine President Javier Milei with “propaganda” after Milei opposed a proposed media-telecom merger on antitrust grounds.
“Javier Milei blocks a monopolistic merger…so U.S. media targets him with propaganda?” Cortes said in a post on X promoting his RealClearWorld article. “In the United States, the legacy media have jumped at every juncture to attack Milei and seem to almost parrot the smears of Clarin Group.”
In his RealClearWorld article, Cortes wrote that Milei opposed Clarín Group’s proposed merger with Telefónica because the combined company would control 70% of Argentina’s telecom market. Cortes also wrote that Clarín Group operates across television, cable TV, print newspapers, radio broadcasting, and internet service in Argentina.
Cortes wrote that Milei became president of Argentina in 2023 and has pursued spending cuts and economic reforms. His article said Argentina’s poverty rate fell from 53% to 28%, inflation dropped from more than 200% to an annualized 30%, and the country recorded its first government budget surplus in 14 years.
Cortes is the founder and president of the League of American Workers, an organization founded in 2022 that advocates for American workers through research, communications, and policy proposals focused on labor and economic issues.
