50 years after its last coup, Argentina remembers painful legacy of dictatorship as Milei challenges narrative

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4. Well - that's one ignominy that Cheeto seems determined to avoid: having nothing named in his honor

To my knowledge (my parents are Argentine), there's nothing in Argentina named after any dictatorship official - though Milei would certainly change that if he could.

His ideological predecessor - neo-liberal blowhard Álvaro Alsogaray - pushed in the 1990s to have a monument erected in memory of the officers who actively participated in the atrocities (whom he called "heroes" ).

His daughter - famously - became the first Argentine federal official to have been convicted of corruption, for, at the time, embezzling $200 million in funds meant to clean up the then India-like Riachuelo River (south of Buenos Aires).

It's much cleaner now - though still far short of her 1993 pledge to make it "drinkable."

Dictatorship policies, ironically, aided the then-sludgy Riachuelo - by simply forcing so many factories along its banks to go under.

The combination of depressed real wages and unrestricted imports made survival impossible for many - a recipe being rehashed by Trump's little narco pal Milei.

Cry for Argentina.