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By Leila Miller

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -When U.S. President Donald Trump last week conditioned a hefty financial bailout of Argentina on President Javier Milei triumphing in upcoming midterm elections, he handed the country’s opposition a new rallying cry.

On social media, #PatriaOColonia – motherland or colony – trended after Trump’s comments, which came during a press conference with Milei at the White House. Jorge Taiana, a former defense minister and leading Peronist opposition candidate in the province of Buenos Aires, demanded on X that Trump “stop extorting the Argentine people!”

And outside a Buenos Aires apartment where powerful opposition leader and former President Cristina Kirchner is under house arrest for corruption, packed crowds listened to a

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