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What Argentina Sees in Trump — The Dial

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José Derman decided to repurpose his family’s home in La Plata, the capital of the Buenos Aires province, shortly after his mother passed away in 2020. He emptied the house, sold her old clothes and books, and painted the walls. With the help of two “comrades,” the house soon became the Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center, named after a white supremacist in the United States who shot three people at a protest against the police shooting of a Black man in 2020. A portrait of Rittenhouse adorns one of the inside walls, next to murals of Javier Milei, now Argentina's president but at the time a new far-right political figure, and former President Donald Trump, among others. Derman and his team started by organizing anti-quarantine protests, then attacked and threatened the headquarters of the leftist party Izquierda Socialista in La Plata. “We wanted to provoke them,” Derman told me in an interview. “To break the monopoly of expression in the hands of Marxism and feminism.” They also took pa

What Argentina Sees in Trump Reporting Oct 3 Written By Lucía Cholakian Herrera The country’s far right found a model in the former U.S. president. OCTOBER 3, 2024 José Derman decided to repurpose his family’s home in La Plata, the capital of the Buenos Aires province, shortly after his mother passed away in 2020. He emptied the house, sold her old clothes and books, and painted the walls. With the help of two “comrades,” the house soon became the Kyle Rittenhouse Cultural Center, named after a white supremacist in the United States who shot three people at a protest against the police shootin

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