Within the framework of the Latam Economic Forum held on Wednesday in Buenos Aires, President Javier Milei and his Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, unintentionally starred in one of the most striking official bloopers of recent times: They did not agree on how many Argentines emerged from poverty during the libertarian administration.
The first to speak was Caputoat 9.15 in the morning. Before an audience of businessmen and investors, the minister displayed his usual battery of data and assured that 12 million people They had escaped poverty thanks to the government’s economic program. Three hours later, at 12:15, it was the turn of Milei. The president repeated the same argumentative logic, the same triumphalist tone, but with a different number: according to him, the Argentines who left poverty are 14 million.
The detail did not go unnoticed. The journalist Ariel Lijalad was the one who pointed out the inconsistency on their social networks with an irony that is difficult to refute: in just three hours, and without any new official data, the government would have “taken people out of poverty.” two million additional people.
The anecdote occurs in a context of strong tension between the official story and citizen perception of the economic situation. That same Wednesday, Caputo also made the news for another controversial phrase: “It seems like a joke that they talk to you about a crisis”he declared before the same forum, while trying to explain why he could not “show empathy” towards those who describe the present as a situation of social emergency.
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