An old leader of still incommensurable political magnitudes developed in his Political Leadership manual the importance of unity of conception for unity of action. La Libertad Avanza, the party that from its conception assumed the consolidation of a new political paradigm, that built its own doctrines and that worked to put Javier Milei on the same scale of values as Juan Domingo Perón, today is nothing more than a group of enemies that move by improvisation. Leaving the internal party of the former Frente de Todos at the level of a student center fight, the members of the libertarian “misgovernment” no longer make an effort to hide their impossible coexistence, which is beginning to have concrete effects on the management of their leader who, they silently acknowledge from both sides, is neither going back nor forward.
The scandal that has Manuel Adorni as the protagonist of a judicial investigation for alleged illicit enrichment achieved what no other official conflict had achieved until now: a real ceasefire and the gathering of troops to work towards a common good. Since then, and despite the over-reacted work meetings held weekly by the ruling party, the libertarian administration has been paralyzed. “There are many resolutions and policies that take weeks to be signed because everything entails a rechecking of each comma due to the issue of Karina and Santiago,” a minister launched with resignation before the consultation of Time.
The “issue” to which the cabinet member refers is neither more nor less than an internal one that has been moving on a personal level for some time. The outbreak of the news of the trip of the chief of staff and his wife to New York occurred at the same moment that Karina Milei, mistress and mistress of the libertarian guillotine, was preparing to advance the political control of the SIDE, the ARCA, and the Ministry of Health, which Luis Caputo and Carlos Guberman had suffocated in recent weeks. But the public warning of his favorite forced the operation to come to a screeching halt.
The presidential sister does not tolerate Santiago Caputo and no longer hides it. Various visual witnesses of the few meetings that the former members of the Iron Triangle recognize that the tension is palpable and that the interactions between the two are minimal. “For a while now she’s just said hello to him and then hasn’t looked at him again,” he confided to Time an expert in the political dynamics of the government. The reasons abound and are well known. Karina’s conviction – and which is not shared in other areas of the government – about the necessary participation of the advisor for the leaking of Diego Spagnuolo’s audios that culminated in the ANDIS case, which is close to having news, is one of the triggers for this breakup. The increase of the invisible power of the soul brother of his blood brother is another of them.
For the president of LLA, Caputo should be nothing more than a mere advisor dedicated strictly to the construction of Milei’s communication strategy, a circumstance that collides head-on with the reality that she herself collaborated in building. At the dawn of the government, when they were nothing more than a group of acquaintances united by the caroms of national democracy, Caputo was the only one who knew how to use the irons to his advantage and build his strength in the most important areas of the state organization chart. Dedicated to taking care of her brother, El Jefe let the guru settle and today, more than two years into the government, the general secretary of the presidency comes face to face with her own decision: Santiago Caputo is the government and the government is Santiago Caputo.
The present has Karina sided by Martín and Eduardo “Lule” Menem, the heads behind the legislative strategy and the national armed groups. The advisor’s intimate enemies, who also do not hide their contempt for the forty-year-old, made use and abuse of the political vendetta with the preparation of lists in the territories that deliberately left out militants who have prayed to the libertarian leader since long before the Riojans landed in LLA. With these grievances still unresolved, low-caliber internal disputes found fertile ground for their reproduction.
More than 48 hours ago, Twitter, the digital street inhabited by the Mileist youth, is the scene of a new dispute between the celestial militancy and the national deputy Sebastián Pareja, a Karinist bishop of the first wave, for control of political power in the Province of Buenos Aires. While Javier Milei’s political table met in the chief of staff’s office to try to show a unity that does not exist and outlined a parliamentary strategy that would allow them to raise their heads after weeks of judicial conflicts, in the digital field the tweeters were unknown.
After Daniel Parisini, alias Gordo Dan, spoke out in La Misa against Pareja’s decision to denounce tweeters, the national representative, Lilia Lemoine, came out to target the geneticist founder of Las Fuerzas del Cielo, the organization referenced in Caputo, and from then on everything went to a crescendo. The accounts of well-known tweeters within the libertarian world introduced the specter of rupture and the digital chaos forced leaders of La Libertad Avanza to go out and try to calm the waters. “Please, no one stops following Milei. We have the historic chance to change this country. Let’s not let it pass,” tweeted legislator Agustín Romo, who days ago ceased to be president of the La Libertad Avanza bloc in the Province of Buenos Aires, a position that will now be occupied by the peerist Juan Osaba.
The revolution in the Twitter farm was not even stopped by the measured retweets that the president made in the last hours on both sides of the internal debate. The greatest gesture of political support that the libertarian leader knows how to provide, comfortable in an inaction that threatens to devour him, began to have little taste even for his own. “Javier is not going to decide between one and the other because he loves Karina and Santiago in the same way. The problem is that this is not enough,” said a libertarian leader of the first wave with regret. Surrounded by a terror that does not belong to them, from both sides of the libertarian internal movement they already know by heart that they will have to kill in order to survive.
