One day in mid-2020, Karina Milei had a revelation: God communicated to her that her brother had to delve into politics since it had been prophesied that he would be President.

When he became a national deputy the following year, she again assured her brother that this was his path, despite most of his entourage wanting him to run for mayor of Buenos Aires City in 2023. The night before the presidential run-off against Sergio Massa, she insisted along the same metaphysical lines. “God has already prophesied your victory,” she told him.

Now history is repeating itself – in the days before the midterms, when pessimism was the dominant mood in and around the government, there was only one person close to the President who trusted in La Libertad Avanza obtaining an overwhelming triumph.

Whether via an enormous coincidence, a finely calculated strategy or indeed by the work of a divine plan, what is certain is that events again proved the younger Milei child right. This triumph, which she feels to be her own, was the moment she had been waiting for. Now, not even her brother will be able to restrain her.

On the attack

A few days before the elections, Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona drafted his resignation. Sick and tired of the double chain command within his portfolio – top presidential advisor Santiago Caputo has empowered one of his soldiers, Sebastián Amerio – and keen on living abroad, with his ears burning from listening to the entreaties of his wife, Cúneo Li