Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, spent the week in the eye of the hurricane with a series of questions and accusations about a dubious post that spent about five hours in his X account. Milei eliminated the post when the losses and earnings had already been registered. The $ Libra cryptocurrency multiplied its value and collapsed shortly after, the same night of Friday (14).
Since then, the opposition has been questioning Milei’s behavior by promoting an investment that, according to him, would be positive for small and medium -sized companies in Argentina. After a weekend of silence, he said in an interview with TN television channel that this type of investment is like a “casino” and said at the same time that the state was not involved and that the post was in his personal account . Milei’s interview was interrupted by her advisor Santiago Caputo who asked the interviewer that a question be reformulated so as not to generate the president’s problems with the court.
The interview that was to clarify the posture of the president ended up generating even more doubts about his relationship with so -called cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. According to Clarín’s investigation in Spanish, more than 100 actions were carried out in Argentina courts and investor groups hired law firms in the United States to report Milei and the companies involved in the case, according to the journalistic investigation.
In this context, the opposition in the Senate has gathered signatures to vote for those being established a CPI against Milei. They were 48 votes for the creation of the CPI. The vote was 47 to 23.
Milei maintained his trip to the United States to attend another conservative action conference (CPAC) meeting in Washington. This is Milei’s ninth trip to the United States since taking office just over a year ago in December 2024.
In a meeting with the businessman and member of the Trump government, Elon Musk, whom Milei calls “friend”, the Argentine gave him a golden chainsaw. The images showed the two smiling, along with Milei’s sister Karina and other advisors. Musk said the tool will be placed in his office and symbolizes the cuts in the bureaucracy. The image of Milei and Musk with the symbol of cuts in the state was featured in the Argentine and international press, when public sector employees are concerned about the loss of their jobs in Argentina and the United States.
The first opinion polls, after ‘cryptogate’ show that the case has fallen badly among the Argentines.