Agustín Etchebarne en Free the People. When Javier Milei was first elected president of Argentina in 2023, no one was really sure whether his populist, free-market policies would work to fix the nation’s struggling economy.

Two years later, he has made tremendous strides, as reflected in Argentina’s 2025 legislative elections, in which Milei’s party received a clear mandate from the masses. Matt Kibbe sits down with Agustín Etchebarne to discuss why Milei has become so popular and why he has been so successful in presenting the ideas of Austrian economics to his voters.