Javier Milei The Casa Rosada Left or Congress no longer needs to exercise the presidency: it is enough for a streaming study, a Ventrilocuo doll and a laptop to sign live decrees. In a scene worthy of political satire, The Argentine president interrupted the interview with Alejandro Fantino in the channel Neura To sign, on the chamber and without warning, a presidential decree. “And yes man, president of President”he explained, as if he were answering a meme in X (Twitter).
But the signing of the decree was barely One of the surrealist moments of a night that combined circus, adjustment and internal war. Milei also officiated ventriloquo with a doll called “end”to which he repeated lessons of libertarian economy without moving his mouth. Between inflation definitions and attacks on Keynesianism – who called “for corrupt politicians” – the president ended up offering A political show in the key to stand-up neoliberalwith Fantino as a stunned witness and the country looking from the other side of the screen.
The most striking, however, was what came later. After returning from his impasse to sign the mysterious decree (whose content refused to reveal), Milei pointed with heavy artillery against his vice, Victoria Villarruel. This time, he accused her directly of having “enabled a run” that led the dollar to $ 1380. He accused her of betrayal and having facilitated a “illegal” legislative session that, according to him, violated the fiscal balance.
The message was clear: in the world of Milei, the Central Bank is “in moving mode”, inflation “will disappear in 2026”, but The exchange crisis has a name and surname: Victoria Villarruel. The confrontation between the two main positions of the Argentine Executive is no longer cooking over low heat: it is served hot and in streaming, with open accusations and contradictions even with the Minister of Economy itself, Luis Caputo, who had talked shortly before the “K risk” and exchange flotation as the true causes of the dollar rise.
That the president uses an entertainment space to accuse his vice of provoking a exchange run is not one more rarity, but a sign of institutional decomposition. The president no longer coordinates with his cabinet, contradicts his ministers and Does not recognize limits when publicly confronting your formula partner.
The streaming of Neura It also served to confirm the reelectionist ambitions of Milei: “I will be reelected in 2027”He launched without hesitation, as if the economic crisis and institutional tensions did not affect their political horizon. He said it with a messianic tone, in the same tone with which he promises to eliminate inflation next year, in a kind of libertarian remake of the “second semester.”
These types of appearances are not spontaneous. They are part of a Milei strategy to maintain the center of the political scene outside the traditional channelsjumping the intermediation of the media and the Congress, and appealing directly to its faithful audience. But that leadership style has a cost: uninstitutionalizes the presidential function, liquefy responsibilities and makes state decisions into viral episodes.
What happened in Neura It was not a simple interview. It was a presidential performance with tragicomic trim: A president who acts as a ventriloch, firm decrees in the air without explaining its content, attacks its vice and sells economic stability as if it were a stand-up show. A scene that mixes post -truth with the performative delirium, while the dollar shoots and the country looks perplexed, how power breaks down between memes, puppets and electronic decrees.
What was evidenced is something else: that Argentina has a president who has decided to govern as an influencer, measure power by likes, and that finds an addictive fuel in chaos. Only that chaos no longer remains in the study: it impacts the pocket, currency and governance. And that is an alarm signal.
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