Manuel Adorni perhaps reminded Milei via Guillermo Francos, who went silent when it was his turn to speak last Monday. He was probably also instructed to escape the usual press conference. The cryptocurrency scandal affected Santiago Caputo, though he may be one of the least involved. No one believes, therefore, that both officials spoke on their own, as they also confessed that Milei had exploded in bile against Caputo. Even journalist Joni Viale suffered the consequences; felonies were attributed to those who practice felonies: Argentina in turmoil.
When it comes to revenge, Manuel Adorni took note, more calmly, against the same star advisor. He pointed out to Milei the inadvisability of some words expressed by the president. Strange: such a notable gap had never been displayed within the Cabinet, not even when they denounced the Vice President Victoria Villarruel for being a coup supporter, and even less a critical boldness regarding the President's blood brother, the third in his line of trust according to his own words.
"First serious definition against Santiago Caputo by the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, to continue a series of objections about the character. And not like a private individual." In this other case, someone also took advantage of an easy, dizzying profit in such a dangerous space as the cryptocurrency casino. But the star advisor had the courage to cut responses to Viale: he tried to save Milei with a key distinction, to prevent him from admitting as personal and private the tweets that generated the monumental price increase and its consecutive drop in just a few minutes.
"Incredible what happened to Caputo, who inserted himself into an interview to cut a statement from the President." Changes are coming due to the imported "scam," the excessive trust in external collaborators who supported the campaign, and, particularly, the first casualty has been Ariel Lijo: when he thought he would be a Supreme Court judge, the commotion sent him to the Senate's sewer. The head of state acts as an authority; he can make a political, economic error, not a crime, unlike a private individual who causes commercial damage to American citizens or companies.
Someone, unaware of the intricacies of the matter, recalled a similar, more conventional operation decades ago: when Franco Macri took over SEVEL (Peugeot) and several contributing partners committed to not selling the shares even as they soared in the market. So much so that this anecdote about a friendly journalistic interview suddenly enraged the President more than his own blunder over the promotion of a multimillion-dollar operation in the cryptocurrency world. Before entering the sophisticated scandal, a clarification about Caputo's attitude, who acted with the heroism of a bodyguard who threw himself on a grenade to prevent it from exploding near his President.
If Milei were to acknowledge the personal promotion, he would be equating himself to an influencer and would hardly be able to excuse himself from the intervention of justice from the North. Franco never forgave him. He is no longer super powerful. The increase was significant and, notably, one failed to keep his word: it was his brother-in-law Blanco Villegas, they say. A lot of cinema in the author of the resemblance. "The President set limits."
And they bombarded without displeasure, with pleasure, due to the arrogance and contempt displayed by the consultant during his management, self-imagined as a Robespierre of the 21st century. A clever detail from the questioned star advisor to circumvent any appeal before US justice, which grants sovereign immunity to the president who causes commercial damage to citizens or companies of his country. It's the law of the USA. It got messy. That is: they replicated what they had been tasked with at the Casa Rosada.
Due to his acknowledged error, the government has fallen to be a "lesser evil" of Argentine politics, needing the wind that Donald Trump and the IMF can provide to continue its economic plan, satisfy the Israeli government with the approval of the trial in absentia, present other faces at their showcases and learn about businesses in which they are not experts. Milei, possibly, in the back and forth of the cryptogate did not only err with the first tweet, perhaps much more with the second. Others seem to get away, just those who participated in the meetings that shaped the script. Or from the XXII, according to their arrogance.
The curious thing about the explosion is that it occurred due to an intervention by Caputo during the recording of a television program, and not due to the brutality that happened in the international brothel of cryptocurrencies. As the episode unexpectedly transcended through the diffusion of the "raw" video on social media, for many it constituted an act of unprecedented audacity in someone who did not undergo conscription and did not respect the superiority of a friend. Nothing to do then with other interpretations, though it is unknown whether Caputo's interference occurred because he knew the legal risk in other lands or due to the illusion of having a power that the votes did not grant him. The relative's profit-taking led to a painful debacle; by a miracle, the company was saved from bankruptcy.
