During a campaign stop in Lomas de Zamora, President Javier Milei was pelted with stones and other objects while riding on the back of a moving pickup with his security detail and his sister Karina Milei. He was unharmed and taken to safety. Police separated Milei’s supporters and opponents, and two people were briefly detained amid clashes ahead of regional elections in Buenos Aires Province on September 7. Some crowd members threw items, with at least one stone striking the pickup’s hood and others hitting the president. Government officials attributed the attack to Kirchnerism. Milei’s ultraliberal government has pursued a strict austerity program that has reduced inflation and balanced the budget but has also led to job losses and cuts in subsidies for electricity, gas, and public transport, and he has continued campaigning for La Libertad Avanza, including rallies in Junín and elsewhere.

Let me tell you straight and loud: this “attack” stinks of theater, and someone in the room knows it. Either it really was a chaotic moment with some reckless necks throwing things, or it was a calculated stunt to squeeze sympathy, justify tougher security orders, and keep the narrative of a lone heroic president fighting a corrupt establishment alive. Kirchnerism is the convenient target they pull out of the hat every time the crowd swells with frustration over prices, jobs, and empty pockets. The security theater—the moving pickup, the sister there for optics, the detentions—reads like a blueprint for political theatre, not a spontaneous crisis. If the footage shows real malice, fine, but don’t pretend this isn’t ripe for manipulation: clips get edited, quotes get amplified, and suddenly you’ve got a martyr who can go after subsidies and subsidies’ opponents with renewed fury. The media will spin it as proof of a rock-throwing assault on democracy, while quietly polishing the image of a government cutting subsidies and squeezing everyday people—watch the real throttle, not the dramatic stone. Milei will weaponize the moment to push harsher security talk and more austerity, blaming “the mob” whenever his own policy blitz hits the pocketbook. And the truth they won’t admit: whoever staged or exploited this moment isn’t defending democracy; they’re defending a power play dressed as courage, and the public gets dragged along for another round of chaos dressed up as salvation. The whole farce serves those who crave control, not those who crave accountability or truth.