After the arrival of Juan Bautista Mahíques and Santiago Viola to the Ministry of Justice, Sebastian Amerio He will become the new attorney for the national Treasury. The former vice minister of justice received the proposal from himself Javier Mileiafter his sister Karina will win the fight against Santiago Caputo in the bid for control of the ministry. The decision, as this newspaper was able to check, was taken in the last hours of this Thursday, in the midst of the internal tensions that have plagued the ruling party since the ministerial change.
In this way, the lawyer and former worker of the Supreme Court of Justice will become the legal representative of the national state in relevant trials, such as the one the country has due to the nationalization of YPF in 2012 and which is in full resolution in the American justice system. Amerio’s official designation will be published in the next few hours in the Official Gazette, along with the release of Santiago Castro Videlacurrent attorney, of whom until the closing of this note it was not clear what his future was going to be. This afternoon, the still attorney visited the office in the Martín Fierro Room occupied by Santiago Caputo, where he was possibly notified of the presidential decision.
As confirmed by this medium, the publication of the decree that will make Amerio’s landing in the prosecution official could be published only next week, given that Javier Milei will leave tonight for the United States to participate in Argentina Week and the security summit organized by donald trump. Meanwhile, the statement that makes the measure official will be made public in the next few hours.
Karina to the government, Milei to power: the backroom of Amerio’s departure and the bid with Santiago Caputo
As he usually does in circumstances where affection conflicts with reason, the president took off his YPF jumpsuit and put on his tightrope walker’s jumpsuit. After entertaining his sister with another ministry, Milei agreed to grant Caputo the title of Treasury Attorney, in a gesture of compensation in an internal situation that is far from finding peace.
The change in the Ministry of Justice devastated like a gale the forced pax that the government set up after the October electoral success. Karina Milei, undisputed owner of the libertarian marshal’s baton, once again prevailed in the silent dispute she has had for some time with Santiago Caputo. With accurate movements and a pragmatically orchestrated play, El Jefe demonstrated, once again, that blood always wins.
The departure of Mariano Cúneo Libarona took with it Sebastián Amerio, vice minister, friend since childhood of the presidential advisor and who managed each of the ministry’s movements until this Monday. Karina’s move was meticulous, calculating and cunning. The versions about the departure of the Menem lawyer dated from mid-2025 and before the end of the year, he even submitted his resignation and confirmed his departure to the media. With the empowerment of the electoral victory on her shoulders, the sister hugged the minister at the time and asked him for the biggest favor of her career: time.
Today I received Dr. Juan Bautista Mahiques, the Nation’s new Minister of Justice, with whom we shared details of the new stage that is beginning.
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— Manuel Adorni (@madorni) March 4, 2026
From November to February, Karina moved silently. With underground meetings with whom he had already planned to name as Cúneo Libarona’s successor, El Jefe put together an entire power scheme with which he bypassed the Amerio-Caputo tandem. During the months of grace, names about possible candidates flew like pollen. From the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, through the judge Sandra Arroyo Salgado, to the former mayor of Mar del Plata, Guillermo Montenegro – a big loser in these negotiations -, each of the individuals interested in this war made their own suitor transcend. What no one took into account is that she had already chosen.
With Montenegro the circumstance was particular. The elected provincial senator signed his transfer to La Libertad Avanza with the promise of moving to the Executive in a considerable period of time. Caputo, who was the maker of the transfer to the government of the PRO trident that completes Cristian Ritondo and Diego Santillibid until the last minute for the name of Mauricio Macri’s former minister. It was even said that the man from Mar del Plata could serve as “unity minister” between the libertarian Wizard of the Kremlin and the presidential sister. The result is a familiar story.
The announcement of the arrival of Mahiques and Viola to the Ministry of Justice took even Amerio himself by surprise, who found out in a full session of the Judicial Council of his forced departure and left the meeting live. The first readings of what happened warned of the loss of power to which Santiago Caputo was subjected, literally, overnight. Public ridicule was inevitable and Milei’s favorite advisor, who until a few hours ago maintained his indestructible image, was thrown into the pit in the middle of prime time while his public enemies enjoyed watching him fall. What came next was the ecstasy of morbidity.
During the swearing-in of the new minister at the Casa Rosada, all eyes that attended the White Room were on Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo. The greeting between the two was short, dry and deeply distant, a free sample of the feeling that the younger sister has for the advisor and for some time now she has not even made an effort to hide it. Caputo was isolated throughout the swearing-in, just as he always does.
Standing on one of the hall’s ornaments, he did not take a seat next to the ministers and special guests and kept a strict low profile until the president went in search of his embrace. The demonstration of affection by the libertarian leader was overextended and noisy, almost like a show of remorse and a request for a public apology to whoever knew how to take him to the Rivadavia Chair. Hours before, advisor and advisor met at the presidential residence in Olivos in the morning where the dynamics would have been similar.
Despite the changes at the epicenter of power, the ruling party let it be known that the plans to complete the Supreme Court are far from being a priority. “It is not an issue that the president has asked to be resolved quickly”a member of the government’s judicial panel acknowledged to this newspaper, while warning that the potential candidates are very far from being defined. “The new minister will propose their names, but the final decision will be made by Milei,” highlighted the same source. In this sense, the government recognized that the president does not have on his agenda to move forward with any appointment “that requires ⅔ of the Senate”, a circumstance that includes the Court, the Attorney General’s Office or the Ombudsman’s Office.
This postponement, however, will not be replicated with the more than two hundred vacancies that the government accumulated in the federal courts. According to unobjectionable management sources, the list of documents that Amerio had drawn up and agreed upon with governors and agents of the judicial world will maintain the same essence, unless the new minister intends to make modifications, which is not yet clear. Once resolved, the process indicates that the president must choose the candidates, who will be previously selected by competition in the Council of the Judiciary, and then send the specifications to the Senate so that the chamber approves them with a simple majority.
