From Rothbard to Milei: Theoretical and Historical (self)Justifications of the Libertarian Perspective

The arrival of Javier Milei to the presidency in Argentina and his identification as the first Latin American libertarian president broadened the research agenda. One question that remains open is: to what extent is the libertarian movement present in Milei’s actions and thinking? To address this question, this paper recovers fundamental aspects of libertarian thought, based on the contributions of Murray Rothbard, one of its most prominent figures, and contrasts and evaluates points of convergence and
divergence with Milei’s orientations. The paper is based on the tracking and systematization of relevant contributions by Rothbard and Milei, in the first case, based on a  bibliographic selection by the author, and in the second, by recovering his public interventions and speeches and comparing them with his government actions. The article concludes that, although Milei clearly fits into the Rothbardian perspective of libertarianism, there are some variations, on the one hand, in relation to the state
(in the tension between its elimination and its reduction), and on the other, in the area of individual freedoms, which are conditioned by a conservative agenda in the cultural sphere.