If Argentina has not advanced an inch in the transparency rankings in the 17 months of the Javier Milei administration (as ex-president Mauricio Macri pointed out in the heat of City midterm battle), at least two of this week’s main news items may be considered further setbacks in the fight against corruption – very obviously the suspiciously fine-tuned collapse of the ‘ficha limpia’ bill in the Senate in midweek and, rather more subtly, Economy Minister Luis Caputo’s invocation to pump dollars into the economy with no explanation as to their origin required.
What kind of message are the senators sending if they are offering an open door to those convicted for corruption whose candi
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