A new testimony about the intimacy of Javier Milei revived the debate about his mental health and his relationship with power. The economist Diego Giacomini, former friend and former academic partner of the President, spoke a couple of days ago on Viviana Canosa’s “Revueltos” program on Carnaval Stream and recounted, crudely, what Milei’s emotional deterioration was like after the death of her dog Conan, whom she considers her “son” and “spiritual guide,” and whose loss she continues to deny in public.
During the interview, Canosa asked him why there was “a before and after” with the issue of the dog, in order to understand the man who governs Argentina today. Giacomini responded that Milei “began to go insanely crazy when she lost Conan,” that “it was the most important thing she had in life” and that since then she “denies reality, denies that Conan died.”
According to his story, the president assures that “Conan was resurrected, that he saw him resurrected and that he ascended to heaven.” Then, Giacomini said, “he paid a medium and spoke to Conan who is in the afterlife,” and later said that “Conan asked him to clone him because he was going to be reincarnated into one of the clones,” so that “Conan would be up and down and they would be together again.”
“It is the total denial of reality!” exclaimed the economist, who added ironically: “If I were inventing all this for you, I would no longer work as an economist: I am Jules Verne and I sell fantasy books all over the world.” Giacomini closed by pointing out: “I am telling this because this is the person who makes the economic plan, who insists on a scheme doomed to fail.”
The statements rekindle a tension that Giacomini and Milei have been carrying since their breakup in 2019, when they stopped sharing academic projects and ideological differences. But now the context is different: the confession occurs while the former friend questions the emotional stability of the person who designs the country’s economic policy.
