President Javier Milei’s administration appeared to take a breather after the surprise victory in October’s midterm elections, when even the President had to get in the trenches to defend the line. The magnitude of the win, together with the apparent infinite financial backstop provided by US President Donald Trump, allowed Milei to step into the background – a tactical retreat of sorts that allowed the self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarian to recover while observing from afar. Indeed, the irruption of the corruption scandal involving the President of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), Claudio ‘Tiny’ Tapia and his treasurer Pablo Toviggino, came at the perfect moment to absorb the public’s attention as some other high-voltage cases affecting the government were picking up steam. Football, politics and judicial haste are all traversed by the same forces.
But things have begun to move and the contours of the new structures of power are beginning to reveal themselves. These are by no means well defined and rigid, rather they are liquid, opaque and in constant flux. They respond to specific interests, both domestic and international, and are always extremely transactional, politically and moneta
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