Argentina populist Milei tilts presidential campaign to curing 113% inflation with dollars

Javier Milei, presidential candidate, is favourite to win October's elections.

Javier Milei wants to turn Argentina into the world’s biggest dollarisation experiment.

A political outsider who swept Sunday’s primary vote and is now seen as the favourite to win the October presidential elections, Mr Milei has pitched the idea of ditching the battered peso to crush inflation that’s running at 113% and stifling the $600bn (€550bn) economy.