“Milei is an employee of the big businessmen who have made millions in recent years and expect to make many more with him. He is not a lion, he is a pampered kitten of economic power.” It was October 2023, and Myriam Bregman, from the lectern assigned to her at the candidates’ debate, issued a warning about the man who, days later, would become president of Argentina. While many politicians avoided confronting a figure whose popularity was rising fast, Bregman delivered one jab after another, using the same ironic, irreverent style that infused the libertarian discourse — only in the opposite direction.

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An Argentine court on Tuesday ordered the case to proceed to trial against Diego Armando Maradona’s last lawyer and legal representative, Matías Morla, as well as his sisters Rita Mabel and Claudia Norma Maradona, who are accused of defrauding the sports icon’s legitimate heirs in the exploitation of his commercial trademarks. More than five years after the star’s death, the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 43 rejected a request to dismiss the charges and declared the investigative phase closed.

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