When it seemed that the anarchocapitalist and president of Argentina, Javier Milei, could afford a respite thanks to Donald Trump’s announcement that he would enable a credit line (swap) As Americans, the headlines who talk about scandal have corner him again this week. On this occasion, they dot a key man for the aspirations of freedom progress (lla) to maintain the government. Just when the time continues to run against the official party, its candidate in Buenos Aires for the next legislative who will renew half of the Congress, Jose Luis Espert, has been denounced for alleged bites of a businessman arrested for drug trafficking since 2021, he collects .
It is neither an any candidate nor this is an electoral square to take light. For two very specific reasons. In Buenos Aires he votes about 40% of all Argentine voters, which allows an idea of the importance of harvesting a good result on October 26 to strengthen the numbers of parliamentary arithmetic. Especially in a context in which his ‘chainsaw policy’ caused cracks in the coalition with the traditional conservative right that did blessed his social cuts batteries and mass privatizations.
But, above all, because he, with the regional elections of the beginning of July in which Kirchnerism razed. Milei’s LLA obtained 33.82% of the votes compared to 47% of the left agglutinated on a front. That skating at the polls translated into a frightened serious in the markets that unleashed economic uncertainty in a context of political uncertainty. If now it is difficult for you to materialize the ultraliberal agenda, would you have support in Congress after a kind of mid terms To Argentina? Trump wanted to clear those doubts with the loan, which in parallel also means displacing China as a creditor of Argentina (they must cancel a swap previous with Beijing).
A scandal that adds to another scandal: 200.00 dollars, with plane and van
In this sense, Milei’s own candidate in the constituency of the capital, Espert, acknowledged on Sunday that he was related to the businessman arrested, Federico ‘Fred’ Machado, on which an extradition claim also weighs to be tried in the US, and after having been convicted of his partner Debra Lynn Mercer-Erwin by a Texas court. Specifically, the complaint filed against Espert accuses him of having employed a plane and a van linked to the alleged narco for campaign acts of the presidential ones in 2019, but also of receiving a pecuniary amount of 200,000 dollars. It should be noted that Espert was last.
On the other hand, and with respect to Machado, Justice believes that it moved large volumes of drugs, specifically cocaine, to the US from different points and South American countries. To do this, the investigation suggests that they used illegal operations to buy aircraft. ‘Fred’ was also detained in Texas, from where they claimed him for the alleged crimes of illicit association for the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, money laundering and fraud, but managed to flee to Mexico in 2021 before being arrested in southern Argentina, in Río Negro, in Patagonia.
Those of Milei come from going through a very complicated months, marked before that electoral batacazo by the scandal of an alleged drug even if they existed. These leaks even involve the Secretary of the Presidency and sister of the president, Karina Milei.
