Libertarianism

How Milei Won

It took three ingredients: an offbeat candidate, a bombastic campaign, and a public hungry for something new.

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Javier Milei amidst a large crowd | Tomas Cuesta/Getty
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Daniel Raisbeck is a policy analyst on Latin America at the Cato Institute. He ran for mayor of Bogota, Colombia, in 2015 as an independent libertarian.