Javier Milei FACT VERSUS FICTION:

• ❌FICTION: Milei got a bailout.

• ✅FACT: No bailout. Short-term $20B currency swap (only $2.5B drawn); fully repaid with interest in Dec 2025.

• ❌FICTION: Milei caused inflation.

• ✅FACT: Milei Inherited 211% annual inflation (Dec 2023, monthly peak 25.5%). Slashed it to 117.8% (2024) then 31.5% (2025)

• ❌FICTION: Milei is actually growing the state.

• ✅FACT: Cut real state spending ~30% (ministries from 19→10, fired ~30k bureaucrats). Achieved first fiscal surplus in 14+ years despite Congress overriding his vetoes on extra spending.