On Monday, May 18, in the midst of the escalation of the libertarian internal movement, Santiago Caputo posted a tweet that went relatively unnoticed. The presidential advisor, nicknamed the “Wizard of the Kremlin” Due to his style of power in the shadows without formal position or accountability, he wrote that one should not be surprised if in the following days certain media outlets and journalists launched operations against sectors of the Government. He mentioned by name Paulino Rodriguezto the newspaper LN, to Editorial Clarín and to the Carnaval portal.
Three days later, with the leak of the intimate audios of the President become the scandal of the week and all those media covering the case in full, Caputo returned to X with a single sentence: “The warnings were duly presented.” The message was clear: I warned him. A pose of a strategist who sees everything and controls everything.
Jorge Rial He didn’t let it go and responded from C5N: “Stop being Corleone, Kremlin fissure.” trying to disarm the epic that Caputo was trying to build. “Corleone” It points to the mafia boss who pulls the strings from the shadows and never acts but always knows. “Kremlin fissure” he inverts his own nickname: he is no longer the magician, he is the crack of the government that breaks from within.
The irony is that Caputo issued that warning precisely when the war that he himself fuels against the wing of Martin Menem and Karina Milei It exploded in his face. This fight is not new: since the dawn of milleism both factions divided up plots of the State, but “the relationship was never good”admitted a connoisseur of the Casa Rosada.
The first frictions were communication disputes, but the fracture deepened with each leak and each electoral list. The Buenos Aires elections of 2025 were the definitive break: Karina and the Menem left out the militants of The Forces of Heaven. The scandal of @JournalistRufus —attributed by Caputismo to Menem on the basis of a link that redirected to his Instagram— was the moment when that war came to the surface. And in the middle, Milei He remained defending Menem while his own advisor told him, in every letter, that he had been deceived.
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