I would like to offer some reflections on an issue that has arisen in recent days: the appointment of the head of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA)the state’s tax collection authority, and Head of the General Tax Directorate (DGI), which manages this collection in more detail.
Both of these designations have been strongly questioned. Firstly, that of the ARCA boss, Andres Vazqueza man with a long history in the AFIP and who had been director of the DGI until his promotion on Monday. It is being questioned not because there are journalistic complaints, but because is being investigated by the judiciary for supposedly illicit enrichment, money laundering and tax evasion.
When it comes to taking money out of people’s pockets, It takes not only experience, but also moral authority. Mr. Vázquez has two apartments in Miamiin condominiums that are not in his name but in the names of his daughters, but he bears the costs. They should belong to him.
This man is obviously coming sponsored by an underworld of espionageof the secret services, essentially by Mr Jaime Stiuso And Leonardo Scatturice – who, according to him, is apparently connected to the secret services of Argentina and the United States –.
Vazquezin his long career in the DGI and the AFIP, It served the Kirchners. I’m not saying he was a Kirchnerite, he served during those governments because He pursued companies and people. Now it works for Milei. I hope it didn’t serve the Kirchners the same way.
This Wednesday in LA NACION there is a very good article by Hugo Alconada Mon in which he tells who he is the new director of the DGI, Mariano Mengochea. This man is accusedalso in justice, to protect two Kirchnerist businessmen: Cristóbal López and Lázaro Báez.
The person who brought the matter to court was the prosecutor Diego Lucianiin her famous final argument on the Roads case, with Cristina Kirchner locked in her home. He said at the time that there were tax collection offices that generally protected Lázaro Báezfor that is what he was talking about, and the oral court agreed with Luciani.
On the other hand, I don’t think the President can be doing any better today. It is because you won the midterm elections very well, the election does not exist and there are many politicians who, when they find themselves in this situation, believe that it is forever. Nothing is forever. Politics is not static, it changes. Milei is the example of this. Note that in 2023, the next president came first from Together for Change, then Massa, and finally Milei. That means, An opposition leader can leave at any timealthough today we objectively say that there is no one in the opposition.
I don’t think the appointments of Vázquez and Mengochea were Mileis’ decisions, because from what you hear from government officials, the only thing that matters to the president is the economy. But Someone has to take care of these appointments. And surely it must be the Minister of Economic Affairsbecause although ARCA is an autonomous organization, it is part of the organizational chart of this portfolio. Someone has to take over these controversial appointments.
Then there are these gentlemen’s connections to the secret services. Former Chancellor Dante Caputo – cousin of Luis and uncle of Santiago, although he was very far from the ideas and personalities of the current Caputos – always said this You can’t do serious politics with the secret services or in the secret services. That seems to be the case to me a concept that all governments should consider.
There are a majority of society that believes that President Milei will solve their problems. To do that, You need a cohesive team and these gentlemen are not it.
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