Eduardo Verástegui suffered severe backlash after criticizing Argentina’s president, Javier Milei.
By Catholics for Catholics
A barb-trading between the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, and actor and film producer Eduardo Verástegui apparently has led to the cancelation of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which was scheduled to take place in Mexico in November.
Verástegui, who is the producer of the independent film, “Sound of Freedom,” the highly successful movie that in 2023 surpassed Tom Cruise’s Mission Impossible and Indiana Jones, The Dial of Destiny, is also a committed Catholic who belonged to President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Hispanic Prosperity during his first term.
The former Mexican soap opera actor launched an unsuccessful run for Mexico’s presidency last year (he ran into bureaucratic roadblocks that prevented him to from nabbing the preliminary votes to qualify as an independent candidate), but he has become a force to be reckoned with as a Catholic conservative leader in his native country.
The CPAC Mexico Summit, which was spearheaded by Verástegui, was scheduled to take place in Mexico City on Nov. 15-16. But according to Mexican newspapers, the barb-trading between Verástegui and Milei’s followers caused a backlash against the Mexican actor and Catholic leader.
Les informamos que CPAC México 2025 ha sido cancelado.
— Eduardo Verástegui (@EVerastegui) October 30, 2025
Agradecemos profundamente su comprensión, su apoyo constante y, sobre todo, su compromiso con la causa de la libertad, la vida y la familia.
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Verástegui accused Milei on social media of being a turncoat and of siding with progressives, despite appearing to be a conservative. He referred to him as “Judas, Milei the traitor,” according to El Pais newspaper.
As Verástegui explained on an X social media post on Friday: “Family, As you know, last Saturday I strongly criticized President Milei. It was to be expected that Milei’s followers would be offended by my questioning of their messiah, and this sparked a series of arguments and clashes on social media.”
“What started as a difference of opinion turned into a veritable pitched battle, so ideological and spiritual in nature that denying it would be a lie,” Verástegui wrote. “We have said it before, and we will say it again: the battle may be cultural, but the war has always been spiritual. The result? They asked us to postpone the event.”
The filmmaker added that once things settle down, he will announce his plans for 2026. Next year, his film “Zero A.D.,” about Herod’s biblical massacre of the innocents, is scheduled to be theatrically released.
“In the meantime, I am pleased to announce the Viva México Summit, which will be held on November 16 in Mexico City,” he said.
Veronica Flamenco, Media Director of Catholics for Catholics said about the ordeal, posting on X:
La nueva derecha hispanoamericana nos vendió no solo la idea de luchar la batalla cultural sino la promoción del libre mercado de las "ideas y el diálogo".
— Veronica, la Católica ❤️🔥 (@Veroflamencos) October 31, 2025
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“Eduardo Verástegui, a Catholic leader with a genuine desire to restore natural law and Christendom through culture and politics in Mexico, is being vilely persecuted by the establishment of the New Right – not only the Hispanic Right but also the American one. I understand every independent organization has the right to operate as it wishes; but they have no right to lie, nor to dress up as sheep to deceive and manipulate people of good faith who truly seek change in their own nation.”
“Last week Verástegui dared to express his sincere opinions about the Zionist president of Argentina. This week CPAC abruptly notified him that it is canceling his event in Mexico scheduled for November 16,” Flamenco said. “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord!” Job 1:21”
“I hope this situation ignites a blazing fire in the hearts of the Guadalupan Mexicans to fight with the power of Christ for the Truth that truly sets us free— and not that false truth promoted by the libertarians and neo-conservatives,” Flamenco said. “Mexico does not need a libertarian Zionist New Right; it needs a Cristero movement that wages the cultural and spiritual battle as those Christian heroes did almost 100 years ago.”
Flamenco said, “Forward Mexico. Viva Cristo Rey.”
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