Luca Bonfante, the militant of the United Left Front and one of the toughest voices against the government of Javier Milei, unleashed the controversy after publishing a threatening tweet addressed to the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo. “With the bones of Caputo vamo to make a staircase so that the working class can enter in the faculties,” he tweeted. The statement lit the discussion on social networks and put the student leader again in the center of the political scene.
Bonfante is not a stranger for the ruling party: from its extreme left position it has been questioning the president with hardness and has lent several television debates against libertarian references, such as Iñaki Gutiérrez, where he crossed accusations about the economic and political direction of the country. His frontal and concessions style made him an uncomfortable figure for mileism and, at the same time, a youth reference of the opposition militancy.
The tweet occurs in a political climate marked by social mobilization. This Wednesday, Bonfante was one of the spokesmen of the march convened in defense of the public university, the Garrahan Hospital and the retirees, a protest that sought to show the impact of adjustment policies. In an interview with the daily left, the militant had advanced that the street would be the central scenario of the resistance to the economic program of Milei.
Caputo, however, had already been the target of similar attacks since youth culture. In 2024, rapper Dillom mentioned it in violent terms during a presentation, which resulted in a judicial complaint.
With that fresh antecedent, the unknown is of whether the message of Bonfante will have legal consequences or if it will be added to the long list of verbal crossings that mark the current political climate.
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