Santiago Caputo loses power, but not his tricks. In the midst of his unequal fight with the presidential sister, the star advisor continues trying to appear as the presumed winner of that contest despite the fact that Karina Milei is wearing it. To maintain this fiction, that of a won or at least even fight, he has his journalist friends, willing to publish and say what he dictates to them. Let’s see, if not, the most recent example of the change in the leadership of the SIDE, which Caputo sold as his imposition in the addicted media when in reality it was a decision by Karina.
At midnight on Tuesday, December 2, an official statement announced that the head of the Intelligence Secretariat, Caputist Sergio Neiffert, would leave his position and would be replaced by Cristian Auguadra, until then inspector general of the Internal Affairs Division, in which he was in charge of controlling the destination of the organization’s millionaire reserved funds.
The next day, the media that spoke with Caputo attributed that decision to the advisor, and even recalled a recent fight he had had with Neiffert, someone he no longer trusted since the spy chief had tried to cross sides and report to Karina, via “Lule” Menem, the general secretary’s right hand. According to this version, which was largely true, Caputo was decisive in Neiffert’s departure because he did not forgive him for his alleged betrayal. The incorrect thing, however, was that Neiffert’s replacement, Auguadra, was put in that place by the star advisor. A plain and simple lie. One of the portals with which the self-defined “Wizard of the Kremlin” speaks came to headline like this: “Neiffert was fired and Santiago Caputo appointed the new head of the SIDE.”
The reality is very different. As Javier Calvo revealed in Perfil, Auguadra did not meet at the Casa Rosada with Caputo before being appointed as the new boss of official Intelligence, but with Karina Milei. She is the one who empowered him, and of course, the man responds to her. The dialogue would have already started earlier, when Auguadra, aware of how the SIDE’s reserved funds were spent during Neiffert’s Caputist administration, would have warned the Karinist wing of the administration of certain accounting excesses. If it really happened that way, that gesture earned him the sister’s instant sympathy.
In short, Caputo did not appoint anyone. He has just lost another box in the organizational chart of power.
