Intimidation of a journalist exposes a powerful advisor to Milei

After Javier and Karina Milei, the person with the most power in the Argentine government is Santiago Caputo, the presidential adviser without charge in the executive’s organizational chart. During the first year of the ultra administration, Caputo, 39 years old, built an image of a black monk, of strategist in the shadows. But in the last few weeks he accumulates transcripts that have left him exposed. Last Tuesday, when he intimidated a photog…

The episode occurred during the entrance of the presidential adviser to the debate of Buenos Aires candidates

The government's star advisor took the photojournalist's credentials and took a photo with his phone.

President Javier Milei again protested against a sector that really does not tolerate, the press. In this case, he went out to defend the presidential adviser Santiago Caputo, who during the week, more precisely last Tuesday, threatened a photojournalist who took a photograph in the run-up to the debate of candidates for Buenos Aires legislators. The president, through his X account, asked six questions. The first of them: «If a person does not …

The head of Grandmas of Plaza de Mayo said about Santiago Caputo's terrible fear of a photographer and Manuel Adorni's crude explanation of what happened. So she asked herself, lamenting, "What have we come to?"

In 2025, Santiago Caputo was already part of a rather aggressive event with Facundo Manes, a national deputy for the Radical Civic Union (UCR), ended up denouncing the person in charge of developing the political strategy so that Javier Milei, at that time candidate for president for La Libertad Avanza, could win and stay with the most precious armchair of Casa Rosada in which he is since December 10, 2023 after defeating Peronism in the balotag…