Luis Caputo
, Minister of Economy of the Nation, came out this Wednesday at the intersection of the document that Cristina Kirchner shared with criticism of the government of Javier Milei.
"
I invite you to have a little dignity and remain silent
," responded one of the key officials of Javier Milei's administration.
"
Madam, it is never too late to learn a very basic economic concept
that unfortunately you have always ignored: debt is only taken when there is a fiscal deficit," Caputo wrote on his Twitter account, in reference to Cristina's mention that "Argentina is going through a third debt crisis".
In this regard, the minister stressed that
"the entire fiscal deficit of the last 16 years"
was generated by her "in her 12 years of government", eight as president and four as vice president of Alberto Fernández.
And he stated that Macri "managed to reduce that deficit during her mandate" and Milei "directly eliminated it in one month."
"That is, all the debt that was generated in the last 16 years was a consequence of your economic policies," continued Caputo, who then doubled down: "I invite you to have a little dignity and remain silent while the Argentines do good." the enormous effort to endure and overcome the economic disaster of his last 4 years of government,
without a doubt the worst in Argentine history
."
On this Wednesday morning, Cristina published on her X account (exTwitter) an extensive document with a situation picture of what she called "Argentina in its third debt crisis."
There he assures that "inflation in Argentina skyrockets due to the shortage of dollars and that compulsive indebtedness in said currency only aggravates said shortage by deepening the already known and structural external restriction of our bi-monetary economy."
Madam, it is never too late to learn a very basic economic concept that unfortunately you have always ignored:
Debt is only taken on when there is a fiscal deficit.
The entire fiscal deficit of the last 16 years was generated by you in your 12 years in government.
8 as president and 4 as… https://t.co/M8U5UVKSCl
— totocaputo (@LuisCaputoAR) February 14, 2024
He also targeted Caputo, and against a Milei campaign slogan.
"The most relevant thing about the new President is that despite having maintained as a hobby horse that with the 'same old ones' no different results could be obtained, he produced, as soon as he was elected, an unusual recycling of characters and former officials," he noted. .
"The most worrying is that of Luis Caputo,
architect of the serial indebtedness of Mauricio Macri's government and the return of the IMF to Argentina
, whom he appoints, nothing more and nothing less, than as Minister of Economy. Added to him is the reappearance as a star figure of Federico Sturzenegger, former president of the BCRA during the Macri government and protagonist of the 'Mega swap' of the external debt together with Domingo Cavallo in the De La Rúa government," he pointed out.
And he mentioned that "the new government has only deployed a fierce adjustment program that acts as a true destabilization plan and that not only feeds back the inflationary spiral, placing society on the brink of shock, but will also irremediably cause an increase in unemployment." and social desperation in a kind of planned chaos.
The document of the former president of the Senate, no small fact, begins with a quote from Juan Bautista Alberdi, one of the heroes most cited by Milei.
“Borrowing capital to replace capital destroyed by the crisis is not remedying poverty, but aggravating it;
The wealth of another is not the wealth of the country.
Debt represents poverty more than wealth.
Getting into debt is not getting rich, but rather exposing yourself to becoming poorer due to the ease with which someone else's money is always spent,” says the phrase she chose.