Drugs and corruption: a diplomatic scandal erupts between Spain and Argentina

The Spanish minister indicated that the President of Argentina was using drugs. In response, Miley criticized Sanchez.

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Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente said Argentina’s President Javier Miley was using drugs, after which a diplomatic row erupted between the two countries. Politico writes about it.

In a speech, Puente remembered Miley, who appeared on television while campaigning last year. The Spanish minister said he did not know “in what state the President of Argentina was at that time: before or after using drugs.”

Puente also said that Miley, in his opinion, is “a very bad person.”

Miley condemned the minister’s “defamation and insult” and criticized the policies of Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

“Pedro Sánchez’s government has more important problems, such as the corruption charges brought against his wife, an issue that has made him even consider resigning,” the Office of the President said in an official statement.

In addition, the leader of Argentina accused the Spanish authorities of the fact that socialist policies have caused “death and poverty” to the citizens of the country, “endangered women” due to immigrants, and “also blew up the integrity of Spain” because of the Basque treaties. and Catalan separatists.

For its part, the Spanish Foreign Ministry responded that the rhetoric in Argentina’s statement “does not correspond to the relations between two brotherly countries and peoples.”

Since the far-right populist Miley took over the presidency in December 2023, relations between Argentina and Spain, led by a left-wing coalition led by Sánchez’s Socialist Party, have cooled significantly. Miley publicly supported the far-right Spanish anti-migration party Vox.

Let’s recall that the Prime Minister of Spain had previously said that he would not resign amid corruption charges against his wife.