Javier Miley

“There is nothing,” they told this newspaper from Capital Humano. “It’s all a farce,” added David Adrián Martínez, aka “el Dipy,” when asked if he had been offered a contract with the State. That was the official version that, unfortunately, could not do anything when several documents came to light that show that the Executive was thinking of incorporating the singer into the staff that he so criticizes from his Twitter account. In fact, a specific position had already been considered with a tagline typical of bureaucracy: “Advisor on emerging bands,” appears in the official document from the Ministry of Culture that was stopped at the last minute. For further proof, the CV that the popular singer had presented, the certificate of criminal records and the sworn statement that he signed, in his own handwriting, in order to work in the super-ministry of Capital Humano were also known.

The version of the hiring had been spreading throughout Tuesday, but on Wednesday morning, “El Dipy” – a musician turned anti-Peronist activist – came out to deny that version. “I came back from a tour in Misiones, where I did a show, and I don’t know anything. Nobody consulted me. I don’t know what’s going on, or what they might have said,” he mentioned in a radio interview. At that time, the memo in which Leonardo Cifelli, Secretary of Culture, sent to Juan Facundo Etchenique – in charge of Legal and Administrative Coordination – for Martínez to be appointed to Human Capital had not been leaked. The function that he was going to fulfill – and that, on paper, he had already fulfilled since April 1 – was that of being an advisor “on emerging bands.” The amount is surprising: if the designation were to be made, the singer-songwriter would have been paid 1,750,000 pesos a month starting in April of this year, all this while the Government deals another blow to INCAA, by eliminating by decree the screen quota for Argentine cinema.

According to the Casa Rosada, the position of advisor was not the first one that had been considered for Dipy. The organizational chart had planned for him to manage an area linked to social development in working-class neighborhoods. “But he did not meet the minimum requirements to be a national director,” was what they argued after the scandal broke.

Candidacy and silence

Martínez was a candidate for La Libertad Avanza in the La Matanza district, where he is from. And although he was unable to beat the PJ in the municipal election, the singer maintained a high profile, as a result of going to any television program he is invited to, but especially by fulfilling the time quota on Twitter to be highlighted by Javier Milei. There he takes advantage of the opportunity to troll national deputies, unionists, leaders and any other person who defines himself as a Peronist.

It is strange that he has not appeared on his favourite social network in the last few hours. There he could perhaps illustrate why, for him, the offer to work for the State, which Martínez himself accepted by signing the DDJJ and attaching his CV, is “a farce”. At least he would give his version and not the one that some media outlets are letting out according to government sources. “Dipy has a bad record,” they say in Casa Rosada, referring to the complaint for gender violence by one of his ex-partners.

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Sturzenegger in action: the Government deregulated commercial aviation activity

Federico Sturzenegger’s first blow as Minister of Deregulation was once morest Aerolíneas Argentinas. Through a decree published this morning, he opened the doors to the deepening of the open skies policy by modifying the Aeronautical Code and reducing the State’s capacity to grant routes, airspace, schedules and even ramp service.

The new measure allows the entry of new operators, reduces the requirements for granting air routes, deregulates the ramp service that until now was mostly in the hands of Intercargo and allows small aircraft to fly from city to city and province to province with fewer requirements and controls than they had before.

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Milei is going today to the event for the anniversary of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange

President Javier Milei will participate this followingnoon in the celebrations of a new anniversary of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange.

The event usually serves as a barometer of the expectations of the domestic financial market and attracts the country’s leading businessmen. The head of state is expected to speak at the event regarding the “second stage” of his government following the approval of the Ley Bases.

Another loss in Milei’s government: Fernando Vilella, Secretary of Agriculture, has left

The Casa Rosada has asked the current Secretary of Agriculture to resign, and he will be replaced by Sergio Iraeta, the current Undersecretary. According to an official statement, the department will change its name and will once once more be called Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.

According to the official text, the new secretary “will continue working in line with President Javier Milei’s objectives of reducing the bureaucratic structure of the State, strengthening the capacities of agricultural producers, generating the conditions to increase competitiveness and continuing to open new markets for the heterogeneous national agricultural production.”

The troll attack once morest Vilella

Vilella had been the target of a Twitter threat from libertarian trolls in March, when he “liked” a tweet by radical senator Martín Lousteau criticizing the government’s lack of action in the face of the dengue epidemic.

That “like” generated the reaction of the account @GordoDan, a well-known troll of La Libertad Avanza, who threatened him: “Hey @vilellafer As of tomorrow, you are no longer part of the government. See you later.” The then official quickly contacted spokesman Manuel Adorni to apologize in order to prevent his departure, something that finally came to fruition almost four months later.

The inconsistencies of the May Pact: a lot of show and a weak agreement on paper

By Melisa Molina

The national government achieved what it wanted: that the governors, democratically elected by the inhabitants of their provinces, show themselves obedient –and even at times humiliated– before President Javier Milei.

They achieved their objective by far because, beyond the partisan signs, Milei made them sign on Monday a pact of his authorship without any prior discussion and with points that are already contemplated in the National Constitution. As if that were not enough, he left them waiting outside, following dawn, with less than two degrees of temperature, while he took photos inside the historic House of Tucumán and, later, while he read a speech in which he said that the provinces have to make “a fiscal effort” because they have many public employees.

The governors who were not present (six) were the target of insults by the President and this Tuesday they responded. The opposition questions the points signed by Milei, her sister, and 18 governors and considers that it will not be possible to advance a consensual legislative agenda based on these guidelines.

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Pessimism regarding the economic situation is growing and Milei is beginning to appear as the main person responsible

By Raul Kollmann

In the last three months, dissatisfaction with the economic situation has grown by 10 points. The majority of those surveyed say they have cut back on their leisure activities and there is a widespread opinion that people cannot make ends meet. Concern regarding losing their jobs is on the rise. For the first time, a majority is blaming the President for what is happening.

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The CGT’s inner circle is holding a summit to discuss the next steps

With an eye on the labor chapter of the Ley Bases and the reversal of the Income Tax, the inner circle of the CGT will meet today to evaluate the steps to follow. After the Government promulgated the norm, the joint general secretaries of the labor union Héctor Daer (Health), Carlos Acuña (Stationers) and Pablo Moyano (Truck Drivers) will meet with other leaders of the Board of Directors at 3 p.m. at the UPCN headquarters, in downtown Buenos Aires.

At the meeting, the union representatives will present their evaluation of the approved projects and will set out their positions regarding how to move forward with the rejection. The unions have already defined that they will take action in court individually for the restoration of earnings for workers in the fourth category. The adoption of new forceful measures might not be ruled out either, although the possibility of a new national strike like those of January 24 and May 9 is ruled out for the moment.

In the PRO they say that Macri will not forget Milei’s mistreatment

Mauricio Macri travelled especially from London for the event in Tucumán. And as soon as it was over, he returned to Europe. The former president let it be known that he felt mistreated by the government: he was the only important former president who agreed to attend, they did not reserve him a privileged place – in fact, they left him waiting in the cold with the general public – and they did not include him in the signing of the document as Santiago Caputo, presidential advisor, had assured him they would do.

The general feeling was one of being ignored. If there is one thing that this confirmed to Macri, it is that any negotiation with La Libertad Avanza will be difficult and they will treat PRO like a poor cousin who comes to ask for alms.

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Resources and federalism, the reasons for Kicillof’s absence

By Cesar Pucheta

“The only pact that we accept in the province of Buenos Aires is the one that defends federalism, industry, work and national resources, the one that guarantees the rights and well-being of the people of Buenos Aires.” With these words, the governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, marked the distance with the rest of the provincial and national representatives who signed with Javier Milei the act of the Pact of May, signed in July, more precisely at midnight on Monday in Tucumán.

Kicillof was one of the five leaders who decided not to attend the President’s meeting, which had been postponed since May 25 and which had as a fundamental condition the approval of the Ley Bases and the fiscal package that the representatives of the Buenos Aires government opposed from the very beginning.

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Double life

By Maria Pia Lopez

Today is July 9th and the algorithm of my social networks shows me, once more and once more, mocking scenes acted out by a man wearing the presidential sash. I laugh, of course. But I can’t find images of the repression in Tucumán, on the same night. Their effectiveness is to propose that, in this double life, the only truth is that of virtual reality. That is, the one they can modify with their machinery of fakes and trolls.

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“There is a lack of a social thermometer to know what ordinary Argentines are experiencing”

Por Washington Uranga

“Many lack the social thermometer to know what ordinary Argentines are experiencing,” said the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge García Cuerva, speaking at the metropolitan cathedral on the occasion of the religious ceremony (te deum) held for the national holiday and attended by President Javier Milei, Vice President Victoria Villarruel (who had not been at the event in Tucumán the previous night) and the ministers of the national cabinet. Continuing with his diagnosis, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires asked that “we not mortgage the future” because “we have already done too many things wrong in the past that no one is responsible for” but which result in “six out of ten children in Argentina being poor; hungry children rummaging through garbage, children not in school, or with too basic an education, unable to read fluently or interpret a text.” He went on to say that “basic education must be the first objective of a development plan, because the hunger for instruction is no less depressing than the hunger for food” given that “an illiterate person is an undernourished spirit.”

While Milei listened in silence from the front row, the archbishop pointed out that “something is not right (in the country) when we have rich leaders and a very poor working class” knowing that “many Argentines are making an enormous effort, an effort that is moving, an effort that gives hope” and he criticized those who “destroy” that reality “with petty interests, with the voracity of power for power’s sake, with reprehensible behavior” that does not consider the reality of “ordinary Argentines.” And he raised his prayer asking Jesus “not to always position ourselves from conflicts, from the divide, from confrontations.”

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