Javier Milei has returned to Madrid. The Argentine president is making his fifth trip to Spain as president, without even brushing against government authorities. A Mercedes Benz took him to hotel Hyatt Regency Hesperiaon the Paseo de la Castellana. This Saturday participate in the Madrid Economic Foruma meeting that brings together entrepreneurs and cryptocurrency experts. In Buenos Aires, meanwhile, “cryptogate” has returned to the forefront of the news since Friday. The investigation into the scam involves him directly. Minutes before the launch of the digital asset $LIBRA, Milei exchanged numerous calls from her personal phone with Mauricio Novelli, his former employer when he was a television talk show host and one of the protagonists of the scam that caused losses to investors of at least 100 million dollars. Novelli’s electronic devices were analyzed by official experts and they show that, before and after the launch of $LIBRA, he spoke 35 times not only with the president but also with his sister, Karina Milei, the true organizer of the far-right Government, and Santiago Caputo, the presidential advisor who at that time managed the intelligence structures.
The scam also impacts the United States and Spain, where Milei will entertain the Madrid Economic Forum. “Liberal Argentina is growing!!!. This private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economyfunding small Argentine businesses and ventures. The world wants to invest in Argentina.” With that enthusiasm, the anarcho-capitalist invited, through his account in
More than a year has passed since that episode and the Government finds itself in a curious moment: unbeatable in Congress, supported by Donald Trump, and in unstoppable decline in opinion polls. It is unknown how the new revelations will impact. The expert report reports that that February 14, “D-Day”, Milei and Novelli communicated several times via WhatsApp. The exchanges between the president and the creator of Libra along with the American Hayden Davis They are already in the hands of prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, known for his parsimony when it comes to advancing the case. Analysts agree: One thing is the impact of the revelations and another is the effect on the slow judicial investigation. Computer experts detected that not only Novelli wrote to Milei but that the reverse situation also occurred. The back and forth between the head of state and the lobbyist, who was then in the United States along with Davis, among other partners, revealed that both spoke before the promotion of $LIBRA and after.
Milei tried to distance himself from “cryptogate” during a television interview a few days after the scandal. On that occasion he said that he had only limited himself to disseminating the initiative by copying the purchase contract. “Experts who testified under oath before the congressional investigative commission confirmed that this contract was not available on the Internet at that time,” the newspaper noted. The Nation.
Warning signs
The new media shock of the scam finds Milei far away. In Buenos Aires, the Government receives unpleasant news regarding the progress of the economy. February inflation was 2.9%. The presidential predictions of reducing it to zero collide with the recessionary reality. The opinions of Argentines are beginning to show political fatigue. The extreme right was able to avoid the October parliamentary elections thanks to Trump’s support and the explicit threat that he would leave the country to its fate if the ruling party was defeated at the polls. La Libertad Avanza obtained 40% of the votes, many of them from citizens who were reluctant but fearful of a financial storm. Almost five months later, the latest poll The consulting firm Pulso Research reports that the presidential administration is only approved by 37.2%. Rejections rose to 54.8%. The decline in the presidential image is related to the approval of a labor reform that makes layoffs cheaper and cuts employees’ rights. One of the new features of the survey is that, for the first time, 46.9% of those interviewed blame the current authorities for the economic situation. The received “inheritance” narrative has begun to lose effectiveness.
The consultancy Giacobbe Public Opinion, generally favorable to the ruling party, has just stated that Almost 50% of Argentines are dissatisfied with the Government. The international consulting firm Atlas Intel places disapproval of Milei by 55.3%. Another survey questions the Government’s revisionist campaign 11 days from completion the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the last military dictatorshipand when Milei is expected to make, once again, a fiery defense of the repression perpetrated between 1976 and 1983. According to a survey by the University of Buenos Aires and the Center for Legal and Social Studies, 71% of those consulted have a negative assessment of that historical process that caused thousands of people to disappear. Only 7% consider the actions of the military.
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