“5 years of the pandemic and the quarantine that violated our human rights. It is time to speak, to do and not to repeat what they tried to do was to take away our freedom and rights in the name of terror. We are not going to remain silent. I thank the speakers Pablo Davoli and Emanuel Gorostiaga and Pato Russo for being a fundamental part of the event,” he posted Victoria Villarruel on his Instagram account.
The libertarian vice president called on a string of digital leaders who at the time accompanied La Libertad Avanza and, currently, question the direction of Javier Milei’s management. Among those present were Emanuel Gorostiaga, known by his pseudonym “Emmanuel Danann” and Eduardo Prestofelippobetter known as El Presto, recognized YouTubers who define themselves as liberal and very critical of the Milei, particularly with the president’s sister.
The event called “Five years after the pandemic: some reflections that we owe ourselves” was a series of conferences that took place in one of the main rooms of the Senate of the Nation. In an enclosure that the vice president maintains as her refuge, after exiling herself from her office in Casa Rosada due to internal internal conflicts, and before a select audience, the guests gave their vision and point of view of the current reality, recalling the emergence of the indigenous libertarian movement in the years of quarantine.
Since he assumed the presidency, the relationship between Villarruel and the hard core of power at Casa Rosada became a central element of the political scene. What began as an electoral alliance ended, according to sources and public gestures, in an explicit break: the vice president reacted on networks and in statements to the decisions of the Executive and what she described as a marginalization of her institutional role.
This distance between the vice presidency and the president is not an isolated phenomenon: alternative communication channels – mainly content creators identified with “libertarian” positions or critics of the ruling party – have played an amplifier and, at times, agitator role. The case of Emmanuel Danann, with editorials on his channel and appearances in the media, published forceful criticism of the management of the ruling party, questioning political errors and the presence of actors who, in his opinion, erode the purity of the libertarian project.
In parallel, Eduardo “El Presto” Prestofelippo established himself as a critical spokesperson from within the ecosystem that usually supports La Libertad Avanza. Their public interventions and videos point harshly against the figure of Karina Milei, to whom they attribute political responsibility for controversial decisions and for the landing of operators linked to recent scandals. “Your sister screwed you, Javier,” was the title of one of the reproaches that circulated on networks and related media, a tone that reflects the level of anger and disqualification that exists between sectors of media republicanism and the inner circle of power.
The ties between these YouTubers and the Government are therefore ambivalent: they are not regular institutional links or formal positions, but rather a fluid relationship based on conditional support, public criticism and media visibility. Danann and El Presto emerged as natural allies of the phenomenon that brought Milei to power, but now they act with editorial autonomy; Its influence is measured in its ability to mobilize audiences and install agendas that put pressure on the Executive. For many, the trigger for this distancing between this libertarian sector and the national government occurred after the public expulsion of Ramiro Marra of Freedom Advances. An implacable decision made by the president of the party, Karina Milei.
The public narrative that Villarruel, Danann and El Presto construct converges on one point: the demand for coherence and control over the direction of the political project. Villarruel expresses it from his position and his institutional messages; Danann and El Presto do it from the digital and television platform, with a style that mixes denunciation, editorial and permanent pressure. Meanwhile, the government navigates between the need to maintain the support of that communication segment and the urgency of containing the political consequences of a fracture that is already public.
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