Argentina
If Argentine politics were a TV genre, we would be watching yet another season of a soap opera where the Casa Rosada turns into a film set and the protagonists rehearse dialogues written for prime time.
Javier Milei, a confessed cinephile, should remember that the script of All the President’s Men —the journalistic investigation that brought down Richard Nixon— was not the work of “spies disguised as journalists,” but of real journalists. Woodward and Bernstein did not receive medals from power, but they achieved the impossible: proving that sometimes truth cannot be edited or silenced.
In the Argentine version, however, the President chooses to accuse reporters of being undercover agents. A useful narrative to play the victim during elections, although hard to sustain in a country where even the taxi driver on the corner speaks with surgical precision about the dark basements of power.
Prosecutor Stornelli, a recurring character in this casting, opened an investigation and at least swore not to violate the secrecy of sources. He promised not to raid newsrooms, though he did endorse the official thesis: behind the audios of Karina Milei and the former Disability Agency official there is an “illegal intelligence operation.” In plain words: a local Watergate, but without heroic journalists or tape recorders hidden in Congress — instead, live streaming and trending topics.
The Casa Rosada speaks of a “destabilizing spirit” and of international conspiracies with a Russian or Venezuelan stamp. The script verges on magical realism: from Moscow to Caracas, everyone seems to have spare time to sabotage Argentine governance.
In this plot, the leaked audios are not just dinner-table gossip: they reveal cracks in the administration itself, suspicions of kickbacks in medicine purchases, and conversations never meant to be public. But instead of addressing the substance, the official defense is to attack the messenger.
What is curious is that, beyond the rhetoric, the Government insists on reminding us that it was “elected by popular mandate.” An unnecessary reminder… unless someone has started to doubt it.
Thus, chapter 7001 of this political soap opera feels like a déjà vu: a story of power accusing conspiracies, a journalism that disturbs, a prosecutor who promises to investigate without touching the untouchable, and a citizenry that, between mates, has already learned that in Argentina the real spoilers are not leaked on Netflix… but in the corridors of power.
🎬 End of scene. Next chapter: Who is really writing the script?
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