If there is something that bothers Karina Milei, nicknamed “The Boss” by her brother, it is that what she orders is not done. And that includes Javier, the President who supposedly occupies the highest place in the Government’s organizational chart. However, the one who almost always ends up deciding what is done is the general secretary, dedicated to the day-to-day management while the president looks at the economic numbers or entertains himself on the networks. That is why what has been happening in recent weeks is striking: in the midst of the crisis, little by little, Javier begins to show gestures of autonomy that make the “Boss” uncomfortable and enraged.
Let’s look at some examples. Tired of the conflict between his sister and his star advisor Santiago Caputo, who could slam the door after the elections, the President clings to the latter and even returns the lost prominence to “The Forces of Heaven”, the consultant’s group of trolls led by Daniel “El Gordo Dan” Parisini. Karina had completely ignored them in the electoral setup, to the point of not including any Caputista on the lists, but now Javier asked them to accompany and escort him in his bizarre show at the Movistar Arena. The one who communicated the presidential decision before it was consummated was one of the Caputist tweeters who have air on the Carajo del “Gordo Dan” streaming, and Karina found out that way. They say he exploded with fury.
At the concert, Milei greeted both sides in search of reconciliation and even indulged in this joke after one of her songs: “It’s called ‘turning off the internal’.” But his sister didn’t even show the slightest smile.
Before that, Milei also tried to oust who Caputo considered one of the architects of the ruling party’s poor electoral performance, the “karino” who serves as the sister’s right-hand man, Eduardo “Lule” Menem, also heavily involved in Coimagate. But “the Boss” held him up. What the President tried from then on was to grind Menem down with his trusted journalists, to whom he told off the record that the questioned point guard was “run” and no longer had any impact on the electoral strategy. He even tried to install the supposed resignation of Ramón “El Nene” Vera, one of Menem’s associates, and his partner Sebastián Pareja in the Buenos Aires army. What did Karina do? He summoned Vera to the Casa Rosada to ratify it in a meeting with “Lule.”
Furthermore, Milei had another gesture of independence in recent days, when against all odds he tried to support the candidacy of his head of the list on the Buenos Aires ballot, José Luis Espert. That time, not even Caputo – who usually gives him pleasure in everything – supported him in the suicidal idea and Espert finally ended up getting off so that the blood from Narcogate would not reach the river. Karina always looked at the bald economist with bad eyes.
The President’s sister is getting tired of his attempts at autonomy. And that doesn’t bode well.
