The main indicator of the Buenos Aires bag, the S&P Merval index, ended on Tuesday (18) up 6.1%, recovering the losses after controversy involving Argentina President Javier Milei.
On Friday (14), Milei recommended, to her followers on social network X, the purchase of a little known crypto, $ Libra. On Monday (17),.
Right in the wake of the comment, the value of the digital currency jumped. Hours later, however, the asset plummeted. Seeing the movement, the president of Argentina deleted the original post and wrote a new message depicting.
“I was not aware of the details of the project and, when I found, I decided not to continue to check it out,” said Milei.
The Argentine presidency reported that Milei met with representatives of the company in October 2024. At the time, a “private project financing project in the Argentine Republic using Blockchain technology was presented”.
Therefore, the statement argued that “the president shared the publication in his personal accounts, as he does with entrepreneurs who want to launch a project in Argentina to create jobs and obtain investments.”
Milei’s office says the president called the “anti -corruption office to, including the president himself.”
On Monday night, Milei spoke in an interview with TN, affiliated with CNN in Argentina, that with his post on cryptocurrency.
Amid Tuesday’s recovery, Argentine Presidency spokesman Manuel Adorni said it was.
