Eugenio Casielles was there. They didn’t tell them. At the start of 2021 he was a key piece of a space that was just beginning to be put together, which the majority of the red circle took as little more than a joke. Casielles, along with his historic friend and political partner, Ramiro Marra, contributed a lot to that first La Libertad Avanza campaign: resources, logistics and weapons. They were the ones who brought together, among others, several figures from the networks and Twitter, who would later take center stage, and a then unknown Santiago Caputo, who had been a classmate of both at the Manuel Belgrano School.
Three years later, many things have changed. The front that he co-founded is in the Casa Rosada and Javier Milei is President. But Casielles, who was the head of the list of LLA’s Buenos Aires legislators in 2023, fell by the wayside. And he is not the only one. “We said that we came to put an end to caste, but now we have caste in the Government,” he says after leaving the libertarian bloc in the Legislature and launching “Transformation,” his brand new project.
“When you see the cabinet you realize that they did not fight against caste. There are Patricia Bullrich, Sturzenegger, “Toto” Caputo, Menem’s nephews, the President’s sister, Scioli, and a group of La Cámpora leaders who remained in the Government. The Government changed its ideas, I haven’t, I still think the same. These things that were so important to us were not reflected,” he claims.
News: What responsibility does Javier Milei have? And Karina?
Casielles: Sometimes Javier leaves things in hands that are not his. It’s a bit of Baglini’s Theorem and a bit of bad influences, a bad environment. I’m not afraid of anyone, but I know that there are people in the Government who are afraid of Karina. She was always poorly surrounded. And he gets into topics that he has no knowledge or expertise and like any person who does something he doesn’t know, the result is not favorable.
News: Why did he leave?
Casielles: I express what I think, it doesn’t seem to me that it helps to hide it. And I wanted to give the discussion, but in La Libertad Avanza it is not possible. It should be called “authoritarianism advances.” All officials are afraid to execute because they can be fired and then humiliated. The problem with this Government is that it advances on the three pillars that our country has: the Constitution, the Republic and democracy. Internally they are no longer democratic, and externally they play tricks with individual freedoms. They do not respect the Republic, they do not respect the separation of powers or Congress.
