Davos | The West’s misguided or privilege-seeking political caste has junked free-market capitalism and instigated a form of socialism that will drag their countries into poverty, firebrand Argentine president Javier Milei has told the Davos elite.

In what is surely one of the most remarkable speeches a political leader has ever delivered to the jet-set conclave of the World Economic Forum, the recently elected arch-libertarian urged the C-suiters “not to surrender” to interventionist governments.