Javier Milei, live: the latest government measures

By Esteban Lafuente

The government isn't backing down on its plan. In the face of criticism and warnings from various economists about the currency appreciation and the deficit in the current account balance of payments, Economy Minister Luis Caputo adopted a mocking tone and fired back: "The dollar floats, so whoever thinks it's cheap... Grab your pesos and buy them. Don't miss out, champion!"

Thus, the Minister of Finance attacked the "businessmen, journalists, and colleagues" who raise doubts about the sustainability of the economic program and the consequences of the official exchange rate policy. It was in a presentation in which he revisited Javier Milei's confrontational style. Not coincidentally, Caputo said he and the President are "like brothers" and emphasized the "symbiosis" that unites him with the president.

By Paz Rodríguez Niell and Martín Rodríguez Yebra

Javier Milei's fury against journalism comes in waves. It ebbs and flows, in step with the intensity of the political agenda. Before last weekend, one of its biggest escalations began: between Friday and Tuesday afternoon alone, he posted nearly 200 messages on his social media attacking the press, insulted and called out around twenty journalists, endorsed online harassment campaigns, and resorted to manipulated information to discredit critical voices.

He has been embellishing the slogan "we don't hate journalists enough." He says he includes 90% of them on the list and added a curious reference to the 10 plagues of Egypt, as if he were a god administering punishment to the unclean.

Surrounded by almost all the governors, her cabinet, allied business leaders, and with the top brass of La Cámpora in the front row, Cristina Kirchner announced on April 16, 2012, the expropriation of 51% of YPF's shares, which at the time were held by the Spanish company Repsol.

The then president, now under house arrest for corruption in public works, sent a bill to Congress that day declaring "self-sufficiency in hydrocarbons" to be of "public and national interest." The initiative enjoyed broad support in both chambers and thus advanced the expropriation, which led to a lawsuit against Argentina currently pending in New York courts.

The Argentine government filed a brief tonight with New York Judge Loretta Preska requesting a suspension of the decision she made Monday regarding YPF until the reviewing court issues a ruling on the merits. "We are requesting that the decision be suspended until the court is reviewed," senior sources with access to the case told LA NACION .

In parallel with the suspension request, the Government is already preparing the appeal on the substantive issue , which it indicates will be filed before the middle of the month. Meanwhile, it vehemently denies that negotiations are taking place with the Burford and Eton Park funds, or that they will take place.

The suspension request is the Argentine government's first step in the case, following Preska's order on Monday to hand over, within 14 days, 51% of YPF's shares to the plaintiff funds in the lawsuit for the oil company's expropriation.

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