Argentine President Javier Milei attacked the United Nations in a speech to the world body on Wednesday, calling it a "useless organization" that feeds a "caste of fatally arrogant parasites."
The firebrand Milei, one of US President Donald Trump's closest Latin American allies, also accused the United Nations of committing "genocide" in its handling of the Covid pandemic.
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