Karina Milei is distrustful, especially with those who are supposedly closest to her. A perfect example is Mauricio Macri, the ally he instinctively repels. Another is the SIDE, which in two years of government is already on its third Secretary of Intelligence because the previous ones failed to convince the President’s sister. Rather, quite the opposite.
Let’s look at it case by case. The last to leave was Sergio Neiffert, the spy sponsored by Santiago Caputo who, however, ended up on very bad terms with the star advisor. The versions that run through the corridors of the Casa Rosada speak of a rapprochement between Neiffert and Karina’s sector, something that obviously did not sit well with Caputo. But the sister also disliked him. Because? According to journalist Luciana Geuna in her TN newsletter, Neiffert would have had the bad idea of showing the general secretary a video in which the Karinist operator Sebastián Pareja was seen fighting with a libertarian streamer of those who respond to Caputo. Neiffert’s implicit message was that he would prevent the dissemination of the material so as not to leave Karina’s operator in a bad light. But she didn’t like the spy’s behavior: she took it almost as blackmail. And from that point on, there was no turning back.
The previous head of the SIDE, Silvestre Sívori, was also killed by Milei’s sister when his protector, the first Chief of Staff, Nicolás Posse, was displaced. The Milei brothers were convinced that Posse used the Intelligence Secretariat for personal matters and to signal his power to the rest of the officials. To a friend of the President, Minister Sandra Pettovello, for example, he once pointed out that he knew where he had traveled to spend the weekend abroad. And Milei himself would have received an audio of an important official speaking badly about him and Karina, an attitude that did not please the libertarian leader.
When Santiago Caputo is asked off-screen about that story, the only thing he clarifies is: “It was not an audio.”
Karina distrusts the SIDE, but took the precaution of meeting face to face with its new head, Cristian Auguadra, before he took office. The man responds to Caputo, like his predecessor, but apparently he has also built a bond of trust with the presidential sister in recent months. As? Informing her about some alleged unjustified expenses with the Secretariat’s reserved funds, which he had to audit in his previous role within the organization. In this case, Karina was grateful for the information because it did not involve anyone from her own troop, but from the caputismo. That’s another thing.
Auguadra started off on the right foot at SIDE. It remains to be seen how long he manages to retain Karina’s trust.
