Overview
- Javier Milei traveled from the United States to La Paz for a short visit to attend Rodrigo Paz Pereira’s swearing-in, arriving with Karina Milei and Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno.
- After the ceremony, Milei and Paz Pereira held an informal exchange in which the Argentine president offered help and the two traded gifts, a leather bag and a bolivianita stone.
- A visibly cool greeting between Milei and Chile’s Gabriel Boric was captured on video as Boric remained seated and only extended his hand.
- Paz Pereira outlined a pro-market agenda and said he inherits a broken country with about $40 billion in debt after recent meetings in the United States to secure fuel and dollars, including a sit-down with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
- Regional leaders including Paraguay’s Santiago Peña, Uruguay’s Yamandú Orsi and Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa attended, as coverage framed the moment as part of a right-leaning realignment in South America.