He December 15, 2025 was approved mortgage loan number 20,000. That milestone was celebrated by the Government and was even anticipated on the Carajo streaming channel by the official Felipe Nunezwho was one of the beneficiaries of those first 20 thousand credits. Today that figure, according to the Minister of Economy Luis Caputoamounts to 27 thousand loans delivered.
At that time it was presented as a management achievement. But there was nothing to predict that months later the credits would be in the eye of the storm because a series of libertarian officials would get on the mortgage wave generating internal discussions.
To understand the magnitude of the conflict within the Government, it is necessary to set the situation of the Chief of Staff as a backdrop, Manuel Adorniwhich he bought two houses without selling their own and paid private plane travel in the span of one year, having the frozen salary and using retired as lenders. So, when more officials appeared benefiting from the unbeatable financing rates from Banco Naciónthe ghosts of new “Adornis” began to grow.
There the internal discussion. In the economic team they never hesitated. The line was clear from the beginning: the credits they met the requirementsthe beneficiaries they qualified and there was no formal irregularities. For Caputo, having access to one of those credits was not a problem, but rather a merit. A sign that the system was operating under objective criteria.
But that reading was not replicated throughout the Government. In other offices the analysis was less technical, as demonstrated by the case of Sandra Pettovellowho made a decision that surprised even his own team. He fired his chief of staffwho was on the list of those who had requested a loan for first home. The departure of Leandro Massaccesi did not close the discussion. The amplified. Because it exposed a difference in criteria difficult to conceal. Pettovello, who enjoys differentiating himself in the government structure, tried go ahead and mark the court to all his peers.
On the list of those who requested loans there are officials who respond to Santiago Caputo, Martin Menem and to himself Luis Caputo. While Economy defended the credit policy, Human Capital applied a specific sanction for having accessed one of them. The lack of a unified position It began to be noticed in meetings and informal conversations. Even the president himself Javier Milei He defended the granting of credits on social networks and in an interview he gave to the former CEO of the company Syngenta, Antonio Aracre.
Open debate
On social networks, the discussion also revolved around searching discursive contradictions of the Government itself. For example, officials were criticized because they were benefiting from the institutions that came to destroy. He Nation Bank was among the state-owned companies that were sought privatize and that later, after negotiating the basic law in Congress, it was removed from the list. The most mentioned in networks were the cases of Juan Pablo Carreiraco-founder of La Derecha Diario and director of Digital Communication of the Government, and Felipez Núñezdirector at the Investment and Foreign Trade Bank (BICE)who are active users of X (ex Twitter).
The dynamics of the Government are crossed by internal. The best known is the one starring Karina Milei and Santiago Caputo. The Menem are part of that bid and are on the side of the presidential sister. Luis Caputo He doesn’t usually get into those discussions, but he is a relative of Santiago. In these brawlsPettovello never wanted to take any side. She always felt different. But this time, his position intransigent left her in the sidewalk in front of everyone. Each one with their arguments, but all defending their teams. Now what remains of this case is a court case in which the role of officials of the Nation Bank and the credit granting processes. As in every Government, controversies end up being resolved in Commodore Py.
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