“There is no greater financial expert in Argentina than Luis Caputo,” were the statements that Javier Milei offered to the media a few hours ago. Before leaving for the United States, the president-elect strongly supported the former Macrista minister and stressed that his priority is to avoid hyperinflation. In addition, he announced that he will call extraordinary sessions and send to Congress a package of State reform measures.
“To avoid hyperinflation, it is key to dismantle the Leliqs ball,” stated the libertarian leader, the same message that Luis Caputo transmitted last Friday to the top executives of the country’s main banks. Furthermore, to the press, Milei pointed out: “We never said that the elimination of the BCRA was going to be instantaneous,” and stated: “I need the best to solve a problem with enormous characteristics.”
Curiously, Javier Milei himself had a very different vision of Luis Caputo and his economic-financial management in the government of Mauricio Macri. In those years, just six, the politician was a guest on various television programs and defenestrated with histrionics and vehemence the management that Caputo developed with the Liquidity Letters.
“Caputo came, that is, they fired Sturzenegger accusing him of mismanaging the table, he smoked 15,000 million dollars in reserves irresponsibly and inefficiently and leaves us with this despiole of Leliqs,” said the libertarian panelist, on the program of the late journalist Mauro He traveled through America, and closed: “Of the great disasters of the Central Bank, Caputo did it in two or three months.”
Probably, with the passage of time and the first administrations, the future president will have to confront his television past more frequently than desired. A file that social networks are bringing up with more effort, as the days go by for the inauguration. The images and statements from those years, from that media guest who talked about the economy on the small screen, are perhaps the most strident opposition at this time.
