The story was told a few days ago in the streaming of Jorge Rial and, although already denied by the president, the truth is that he does have a real part. The version, according to the journalist Mauro Federico, indicated that Javier Milei had fired the chefs of the Fifth of Olivos after accusing them of trying to poison him with an eye of Bife. When he sniffed him, he frowned his nose, he began to suspect and made others try the dish before, without casualties, luckily. But, not conforming to that, the first president then unemployed all his chefs.
Milei himself denied the picturesque scene by stating in his networks that lacks credibility because, as some know, he suffers from an anosmia painting, that is, he has no smell. The eye’s eye, then, does not smell like anything.
But there is a detail that did not mention and, in effect, as the rumor denied, the president makes another person try the menu before starting to eat. Like the ancient Russian tsars, who had tasters so that the palatial intrigues did not end up poisoning them. Who is the milei distrustful taster? His name is Mario Suli and officia of Valet in the presidential residence. His stomach is made of steel and is accustomed to the risks. Among its functions is, in addition, to take care of the English mastiffs of the libertarian leader, who live caged in the caniles they ordered to build in the fifth. Suli is nicknamed “Baron B” because at parties he likes to share that champagne with friends.
There are other scenes in addition to that of the tastor risking life for your boss. In April 2024, the journalist Jonatan Viale said that Milei’s physical integrity had been in danger during a tour of Europe in which he decided not to address a plane that would take him to Denmark and chose to return to the country before. “If I was going to Denmark, it was a ballot,” Viale told the astonishment of his teammates, and finally revealed that his source – in the record – was Milei himself. The next day, when journalists consulted Manuel Adorni at his press conference at Casa Rosada, the spokesman only replied: “It is borne by who mentioned it.”
Recall, in addition, that the libertarian leader comes from talking about an alleged coup d’etat and a exchange rate after which I interviewed the hand of his vice president, Victoria Villarruel. He said it in public and without presenting any evidence, after that vote in Congress that put a brake on the chainsaw and suspended the cuts in disabilities and retirements. To the vice, at the time, Milei also accused her of the low of being conspiring along with Mauricio Macri to condition him.
Those who do not want Santiago Caputo affirm that the star advisor uses that feature of the presidential personality in his favor and sells conspiracy theories about alleged operations of his enemies that require the expertise of the young official to dismantle them and defend the government. “Javier, that way, believes that he needs Caputo,” say those sources.
The line between reality and imagination can be very thin in the minds of a president who has declared that, in his first weeks in power, he could dismantle a “hyper” that the previous government had “paido” to explode hardly assumed. He talked about 15 thousand percent! It is a number that, according to the bulk of economists, only existed in his head.
His friend, economist Juan Carlos de Pablo, has just admitted it in an interview. “Milei is very paranoid, the man is like that,” he said and shrugged, as the one who points out an unimportant defect.
Hopefully the president knows how to differentiate between reality and delirium. And that the suli taster is not outraged with anything.
