The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, will travel to Argentina in November to hold a meeting with President Javier Milei, marking the first visit to the country by a U.S. official of that rank in nearly a decade.
Despite the confirmation of the trip, the exact date, the location of the meeting, and the topics that will be part of the agenda have yet to be defined.
The U.S. Vice President and Milei have already had an initial in-person contact. This occurred in October 2025, when the Argentine leader traveled to Washington for an official visit to the White House. There, he met with Donald Trump and greeted Vance, in the first face-to-face meeting between the two officials.
The most recent precedent of this type of visit occurred 9 years ago. In April 2017, then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Argentina and was received by President Mauricio Macri at the Quinta de Olivos. Since then, no U.S. Vice President has returned to visit the country.
The alliance between Milei and Trump
Vance's trip will take place while the relationship between the Milei and Trump administrations is experiencing a period of strong political and economic alignment.
One of the central moments of that relationship occurred during 2025, when Argentina faced a scenario of significant financial tension due to political attacks and coup initiatives driven by the opposition in Congress, ahead of the legislative elections in October.
In this context, the Trump administration offered the Milei government a financial assistance package of USD 20 billion to help stabilize Argentina's exchange market.
The U.S. support came as the markets were undergoing a period of tension and the peso was under pressure. After the elections, La Libertad Avanza consolidated its position as the largest bloc in both chambers of Congress, ending the destabilizing attacks from the opposition.
