Argentina withdraws from WHO

At the end of January, it was reported that Javier Milei’s government in Argentina was considering a proposal to exit the Paris Climate Agreement, following a similar move by the US under Donald Trump.

In another blow to the Globalists, yesterday, Manuel Adorni, the spokesperson for the Presidency of Argentina, held a press conference where he announced that Argentina would withdraw from the World Health Organisation (“WHO”).

“Argentines won’t allow for an international organisation to intervene in our sovereignty, much less in our health,” Adorni said.

The Daily Mail reported yesterday that Argentina announced its withdrawal from WHO, following in the footsteps of the United States under President Donald Trump.

The decision was made by President Javier Milei, who cited “deep differences regarding health management especially during the covid-19 pandemic” as the reason for the withdrawal.

Argentina’s presidential spokesman, Manuel Adorni, stated in a press conference that WHO’s pandemic management, along with decisions made by former President Alberto Fernández, led to the country’s longest lockdown in human history and subjected Buenos Aires to “certain countries’ political influence.”

President Milei, an avowed fan of President Trump, is a self-declared anarcho-capitalist who has taken a similar stance to Trump on WHO, criticising its handling of the pandemic.

Trump had previously withdrawn the US from the WHO, citing the organisation’s failure to adopt urgently needed reforms and its alleged bias towards China.  “He has repeatedly called the health body a puppet of Beijing for failing to hold China accountable for the early spread of covid-19,” Daily Mail said.

The US withdrawal marked a significant shift in US global health policy and denied WHO its biggest donor, with the US providing around 16% of the organisation’s funding in 2022-23.

Argentina’s withdrawal is not expected to affect the quality of healthcare services in the country, according to Adorni, who stated that the move would provide more flexibility for the country to implement its own healthcare policies.

In a statement released by the presidential communications team, the Argentine government has also criticised WHO for promoting never-ending lockdowns during the pandemic without scientific evidence and for limiting countries’ sovereignty.  The statement is in Spanish.  Below is an English version translated using an online translation tool.

PRESIDENT OF THE ARGENTINE NATION

OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE

City of Buenos Aires, February 5, 2025. – The President’s Office informs that President Javier Milei has made the decision to withdraw the Argentine Republic from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The WHO was created in 1948 to coordinate responses to global health emergencies, but it failed its greatest test: it promoted endless quarantines without scientific support when it had to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Quarantines caused one of the greatest economic catastrophes in world history and, according to the Rome Statute of 1998, the quarantine model could be classified as a crime against humanity.  In our country, the WHO supported a government that kept children out of school, left hundreds of thousands of workers without income, drove businesses and SMEs to bankruptcy, and still cost us 130,000 lives.

Today, the evidence indicates that the WHO’s prescriptions do not work because they are the result of political influence, not based on science.  Moreover, it has confirmed its inflexibility to change its approach and, far from admitting errors, it chooses to continue assuming responsibilities that do not belong to it and limiting the sovereignty of countries.

It is urgent for the international community to rethink the purpose of supranational organisations, funded by everyone, that do not fulfil the objectives for which they were created, engage in international politics, and seek to impose themselves above the member countries.

Office of the President of the Argentine Republic

Office of the President of the Argentine Republic on Twitter, 5 February 2025