The Buenos Aires Book Fair opens with a truce in Milei's cultural war

Leonardo Cifelli gave a speech during the opening, which had as a background curtain booing from the audience. He even mentioned at the end of the stocks and rebuked those who whistled: "Did you take it out or did Milei take it out?"

Since this Thursday, the Argentine capital will host a new edition of the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, the most massive in South America. With new authorities, the Fair has opted in 2025 to build bridges of dialogue with the Government of Javier Milei to avoid a confrontation like the one that took place a year ago. The Secretary of Culture, Leonardo Cifelli, absent from the previous inauguration, is expected to attend this time to l…

In recent years the opening of the Book Fair has become a political event and even with some incident that gives to speak While in his speech he said that culture should not be mixed with politics, which is already a political position in itself, he did the same showing as great achievements the cuts and lack of budget that in the area of culture characterized this conservative right-wing government. The peak of rejection was by appointing the p…

The public shouted and hissed Cifelli's exhibition in La Rural, especially when he mentioned President Milei and his sister Karina.

Leonardo Cifelli had said: "Party politics must not intervene in culture, let alone be the reason for unnecessary expenses." After being booed, he rebuked the attendees: "Did you take him out of the stocks or did Milei take him out?" Read more

This Thursday was officially inaugurated the 49th edition of the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, in the Fairground of La Rural. What is...