Argentina is pulling out of the World Health Organisation over “deep differences” on how it managed the COVID-19 pandemic, with President Javier Milei condemning the WHO-backed lockdowns as “crimes against humanity”. The Buenos Aires Herald has the story.
President Javier Milei has ordered Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein to withdraw the country from the organisation, due to “deep differences” over how the WHO managed the COVID-19 pandemic, Presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni announced in a press conference on Wednesday morning.
The Milei administration’s announcement was made in lockstep with the United States’ withdrawal from the global public health agency, underscoring Argentina’s alignment with President Donald Trump.
Adorni said that the WHO’s pandemic management, along with decisions made by former President Alberto Fernández, “led [Argentina] to the longest lockdown in human history” and for the country to be subject to “certain countries’ political influence”.
“Argentines won’t allow for an international organisation to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,” Adorni said.
The Government has claimed that exiting the WHO will not affect healthcare in Argentina. However, critics were quick to argue that it would affect important components of the country’s public health system, including vaccine purchases and outbreak monitoring.
The World Health Organisation is a United Nations agency that coordinates global public health. Founded in 1948, its work includes directing health emergency responses and promoting universal access to healthcare. It has 194 member countries.
Adorni said that Argentina does not receive funding from the WHO for healthcare management, and that the move would therefore not imply cuts. “It will not affect the quality of healthcare services,” he said.
“On the contrary, it provides the country with more flexibility to implement policies that are adapted to the context of interests that Argentina requires, and more availability of resources,” Adorni continued. “It reinforces our path as a country with healthcare sovereignty.” …
In addition to the WHO withdrawal, Argentina is also “analysing leaving the Paris Agreement” on climate change, Adorni added.
After the announcement, Milei described the WHO’s COVID-19 responses as “the largest social control experiment in history”. The lockdowns, he wrote on X, meant “committing, in complicity with all the countries that followed their directives, one of the most bizarre crimes against humanity in history”.
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“…”deep differences” on how it managed the COVID-19 pandemic…”
There was no pandemic, but whatever it was didn’t need managing anyway. Aside from this, the WHO couldn’t manage a pissup in a brewery. That’s why it needs to be scrapped; it does nothing useful and is only a parasite.
There is no such thing as “World Health”.
Bring on more departures.
And while we’re on the subject of the WHO, bring on the prosecutions and prison sentences for all of them, starting with Tedros.
Here’s hoping, eh.
That’s why all these crooks love these supranational organisations – whose law would prosecute them?!
Second that M A k
“There is no such thing as “World Health”.”
I keep telling you – it’s measured using the same thermometer they stick up the Earth’s backside to measure “the Earth’s temperature”.
Oh yes of course silly me I stand corrected thank you silly me
Well, if every country pulls out of the WHO, that’s the end of that odious organization.
Delighted, obviously.
But I just wonder how long these withdrawals will last. There’s little to stop a new government voted in rejoining.
The hope is that these withdrawals will get momentum for questioning the value of these multinational NGOs.
I am absolutely delighted not just for Argentina but the whole world. Paris Agreement, next. Get stuck in chaps.
I’ve described it as a crime against humanity during and since, memories are short and most seem to have genuinely blocked it out, forgetting how mentally ill they all where over a bloody cold! And how abused, they won’t admit what was done to them and what they did to others. Burn the WHO down.
Good call.
Another success for Donald – would not have happened without him.
Ask not for WHOm the bell tolls, Tedros,
It tolls for thee.
Meanwhile Don’t Cry for Argentina,
Hip, hip hurrah for Javier Milei!
Let us hope this is the second of many.
All UN bodies are communist entities. The soviets were very supportive of all of them after ww2 because it embedded communist, collectivism into the western system. The behavioursnof UN bodies ever since has proved this theory correct. Withdraw from almost all of them and simply arrange for coordination bodies to be convened to discuss how to act together if there is a need. Privatise these activities as well.
Milei isn’t quite right: it was an exercise in global control AND a strategy to coerce billions of people into being injected several times with experimental gene-therapy gunk.
Let’s hope others follow Argentina’s example and quit the WHO. Perhaps Meloni could step up?