New Delhi, April 29 -- The president blocked accredited reporters from entering the government's headquarters. He took to social media, in all caps, to insult the country's news media as "filthy scum that claims to be journalists." He posted an AI-generated image that showed a local TV journalist in an orange prison jumpsuit.

The president in question was not the one you might think. It was Argentina's radical libertarian Javier Milei.

Milei's decision last week to expel the entire press corp from the Casa Rosada - or the Pink House, the Argentine equivalent of the White House - marked the latest escalation in a wide-ranging anti-media campaign that has become a hallmark of his tenure, much as it has for his ideological ally and fellow ...