Overview
- In a preview of a CNN interview set to air January 11, Javier Milei said a group of roughly ten countries is already working together and that the project has no formal name.
- Argentine government sources and local outlets report potential participants such as José Antonio Kast of Chile, Santiago Peña of Paraguay, Rodrigo Paz of Bolivia, Daniel Noboa of Ecuador, Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, José Jerí of Peru, José Raúl Mulino of Panama and Luis Abinader of the Dominican Republic.
- Presidential aides frame the initiative as aligned with U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and describe Milei as the bloc’s natural leader.
- Milei says the goal is to counter what he calls the socialism of the 21st century and woke currents, targeting regimes in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and positioning against progressive governments including Brazil under Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
- The Casa Rosada is planning a 2026 summit in Argentina to formalize the grouping, with membership, structure and timing still being negotiated following recent rightward electoral gains and friction at the December Mercosur summit.