“Javier does not know how to love. They never taught him. And that’s why he himself doesn’t know how to have confidence.” The one who speaks is one of Javier Milei’s historical friends. For a decade she cultivated a close relationship with him, which broke after the libertarian made the leap into politics, moments in which he told her and the rest of his intimates that he had developed the ability to speak with God and that He had given him that “mission.”
The phrase he utters, from a cafe in Recoleta, paints the President-elect with body and soul. And Milei’s particular personality is not something that the man keeps only for his private life, but rather represents one of the unique features of his public actions. Milei’s small table can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and paranoia and internal They are the norm in La Libertad Avanza.
“El Loco,” the nickname he earned at school for his loneliness and eccentricities, trusts very few people. Who are they?
In front
His sister Karina He is not only the most important person in Milei’s life, the only one who was present throughout his entire life, but he also has the upper hand in the space. She has as much weight in LLA as Milei himself, and she monopolizes issues that in any other party are divided among several: she is the cashierthe one who decides who has access to the brother, the one who gives the OK or thumbs down to new accessions, the one who manages the agenda… The most striking thing is how “The Boss” – that’s what Milei calls her – has been making himself charge of the power that is beginning to centralize.
At the beginning of this year, for the first time she was heard saying in meetings that “to be in LLA they have to call me,” and now she went one step further: on the Sunday of the triumph she spoke for the first time on stage. They applauded her below.
Milei’s publicist usually orbits close to him, Santiago Oria. Grandson of Jorge, Alsogaray’s running mate in 1983, met Milei in 2020 through Carolina Barros, the director of Public Relations of Corporación América, according to ElDiarioar. At that moment Oria proposed to adapt her plagiarized book “Pandenomics” into a short documentary, which she curiously closes with Karina Milei acting as an angel, with two wings on her back.
The filmmaker accompanies Milei on all her trips, and can always be seen behind her recording with his camera.
From the Eurnekian world also came Nicolas Posse, future Chief of Staff. They became friends working in that company, and in the 2021 campaign Posse was in charge of raising money, an action that he repeated in 2023. Extremely trusted by Milei, today he works alongside Guillermo Francos -another who comes from Corporación América and who will be Minister of the Interior- to review the CVs of the candidates to join the Government. Milei’s former co-worker is also the brain behind the controversial idea of bringing public works to zero.
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The growth of Santiago Caputo within Milei’s circle is one of the great novelties of 2023. He succeeded Mario Russo as the libertarian’s consultant, pushed by legislator Ramiro Marra – founding line of LLA -, his high school classmate. However, in recent months, Caputo has come into his own, and he is one of the few that Milei listens to. On the night of the Acassuso Pact, the only ones Milei summoned were Caputo and Francos. In his speech after the electoral victory, the economist thanked him by name and surname.
What of Victoria Villarruel It would seem to be entering a nebulous area. The elected vice president had been promised that she would have control of the Defense and Security portfolios. But since the alliance with the PRO was sealed, the yellow party has advanced in these areas. Furthermore, the economist did not name her in either of the two speeches on the triumphant night.
This is Milei’s small table. They are counted on the fingers of one hand. Can she rule with them alone?
