by Peter Koenig, Global Research:

Just ten days after Argentina’s run-off presidential elections and way before his inauguration on 10 December 2024, President-elect Javier Milei, has already chosen the Minister of Economy and Finance, whom he will entrust with ditching the Peso for the US dollar and dismantling the Argentine Central Bank. Or so the story goes.

After a two-day trip to Washington DC, where Milei met with officials from the IMF and the US Treasury, Milei announced that he chose Luis Caputo, a former Wall Street trader, to become his new Minister of Economy.

Caputo previously worked for JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank and was Minister of Finance from 2017 to 2018under former Argentine President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).