In October 2023 a video began to circulate that shook the presidential campaign. In the recording, made with a hidden camera, Diego Giacomini, liberal economist and for years partner and intimate friend of Javier Milei appears, speaking of alleged funds of doubtful origin to finance the then libertarian candidate. The material spread on a YouTube channel called Yahweh Jireh and quickly settled in public discussion.
The context was not less: during those months, analysts such as Joaquín Morales Solá and Hugo Alconada Mon had warned about the appearance of emissaries who offered millions of dollars to candidates through false investment funds with sophisticated names and impeccable brochures. The maneuver seemed designed to compromise political teams and then filter them in compromising videos.
Within that framework, Giacomomini’s words were explosive. In the dialogue, he is heard of channeled contributions through offshore accounts and the role of conservative evangelical sectors of Mexico, linked to the same groups that had supported Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. The strongest was his claim that, in that country, economic support for politics “in the end comes from drugs.” According to Giacomomini, that was the real basis of financing that also reached Milei.
The video also included a suggestive passage. An interlocutor raises him if, “basically, you could gain confidence with suitcases, for example, if when you gave a suitcase a position with him was secured.” The question, which was registered, implied that Milei was seen as someone susceptible to accepting cash contributions under that modality. Giacomomini implies that yes, and that part of the talk became one of the most discussed points of the entire filtration.
The veracity of the filming was never confirmed and Milei himself described it as an operation against him. However, the mere mention of drug trafficking, religion, suitcases and presidential campaign lit alarms throughout the political arch, and is resigned today with the narcoescandal of José Luis Espert, Mikei’s main candidate in the province of Buenos Aires.
Giacomomini, who had shared books and programs with the current president, remained in the center of a scandal that showed him as an uncomfortable witness of recent Argentine politics. The episode exposed the fragility of the campaign in a climate of cross operations and marked the end point of a personal and professional link that was already broken: close ally, Giacomomini became a distant former member who ended up faced by Milei in the most controversial roles of his career.
