Javier Milei, the « anarcho-capitalist » presidential candidate who took the lead in the August primaries with his « Liberty Advances » political coalition, owes much of his electoral success to his promise to dollarise the Argentine economy. Disoriented by hyperinflation and rising poverty, many Argentinians see the adoption of the US dollar as the country’s official currency as the long-awaited solution to an economic crisis that they’ve been struggling to escape from since 2018.
