The spirits are in the skin of the Argentine government. Especially those of the advisor after the closed binomial formed by the president, Javier Milei, and his sister, Karina. On Saturday night, Caputo lost his calm in Congress and threatened everyone’s sight of an opposition deputy who had interrupted the president’s speech at the beginning of the legislative year. “He told me, basically, that he is going to throw me all over, he told me that he was going to listen to him, that I am not clean,” said Facundo Manes, the legislator in question. When the Carnival holiday, Manes, ends on Wednesday, which is also a renowned neurosurgeon, will criminally denounce Caputo for “aggravated threats.”
Caputo, 39, is not a minor character of Argentine politics. Although he has no formal charge in the state, along with the Milei brothers. He does not have social networks in his name, he does not give interviews and those who frequent him are barely encouraged to criticize him, even in private. It is he who whispers to Milei’s ear on the course of management and who controls from the shadows to the army of trolls that with public money defends the official agenda. Manes has reasons to worry, because Caputo is also and Arca, the tax collection office. The advisor thus guarantees the personal information of friends and enemies.
On Saturday, Milei inaugurated with a long speech the year of the legislature in a semi -vaulted congress for the boycott of most of the senators and opposition deputies. Among the few who sat on their benches was Facundo Manes, of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). When Milei mentioned his intention to reform justice, the legislator took a constitution in his hands and from his bank criticized him for also asked explanations for his role in and that turned out to be a scam. Milei collected the glove, stopped his speech and sent the deputy, among sarcastic laughs, to read the Constitution. In the official transmission, which at all times avoided that half of the seats were unemployed, only Milei and, in the background, the indecipherable cries of Manes were heard. Then it was learned that Caputo also shouted, which was in one of the stands of the enclosure.
It is common for legislators to interrupt with claims out of the libretto the speech that the president offers every March 1 to Congress. The incident is usually resolved within the enclosure, without too many consequences. But Caputo decided, this time, to go more. Accompanied by two people, he intercepted Manes in one of the halls of Congress, supported his forehead on that of the deputy and told him something in his ear. Then he gave him two slapped in his chest and moved away at full speed. Several journalists who talked to Manes at that time witnessed the scene, while Caputo’s companions struggled to cover the mobile phones that tried to capture the moment.
For the second time, an out of control captured the attention and separated it, to disgust from the Casa Rosada, of Milei, who should be the protagonist of the night. 15 days ago, he tried, without much success, justify his support and promotion of the $ Libra scam. The moment should not air – the interview was recorded – but the cut leaked on the Internet. Government’s alfiles took care of Milei, who had been interrupted without resistance, attacking Caputo.
This time, it was the president himself who came out in defense of his advisor. “Santiago Caputo is a brilliant mind, it is an out of series. So great is what we did this last year, that I am surprised that they give so much entity to a thing so, but so marginal. Especially when Manes has lied in such a deliberate way. He said he was hit two trumpered, when they were palmaditas in his chest, ”he said Sunday night in an interview.
Who was silent was Karina Milei who, in addition to being the president’s emotional support, has under his command the assembly of the government’s strategy for the legislative elections of next October. Milei’s sister sees with discomfort the non -planned prominence of Caputo. This Monday, he traveled to Canada to participate in a business meeting with large mining investors. It was a tactical departure that hides the tensions that make the “iron triangle” more and more strength.
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