The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, aroused controversial after promoting the meme $ Libra cryptocurrency through his social networks, which immediately recorded an exponential rise in his quotation and hours later collapsed.
“Liberal Argentina grows! This private project will be dedicated to encourage the growth of the Argentine economy, anchoring small Argentine businesses and ventures. The world wants to invest in Argentina,” read the publication of the president, together with a link to the project to the project .
Likewise, market sources cited by La Nación say that the currency “is a disaster”, since it has “more than 80 % of tókenes concentrated in five wallets” and indicated that the crypto industry “is receiving it in a very bad way and All comments are negative. “
From the Argentine opposition, they questioned the president’s message pointing out that he could be incurring a crime and alerted possible scams linked to the link he shared. “If this was not a ‘hacko’, […]then we are facing a very serious and scandalous event: President Javier Milei launched or backed a cryptocurrency that in less than two hours mobilized millions of dollars, generated extraordinary profits and finally collapsed, scamming an indeterminate number of people, “said Maximiliano Ferraro , President of the Civic Coalition.
Milei erases the post
Hours after his first tweet, Milei decided to eliminate his publication and, instead, wrote a message clarifying what happened. “A few hours ago I published a tweet, like so many other infinite times, supporting an alleged private venture that obviously I have no link. I was not internalized from the details of the project, and after having internalized I decided not to continue to disseminate it,” he said.
In addition, he lashed out against those who criticized their actions and demanded political judgment against him: “To the unclean rats of the political caste that they want to take advantage of this situation to harm, I want to tell them that every day confirm how chattering the politicians are, and Increase our conviction of kicking them in the ass. ”
Also, from the official bloc they went out to support him. The president of the Libertad Block advances in the Chamber of Deputies, Gabriel Bornoroni, said: “The same are always going to look for any excuse to take political advantage.” “They will not pass. The change in Argentina is irreversible,” he added.
However, Deputy Esteban Paulón, of the Socialist Party, replied to the publication explaining: “He just recognized having collaborated with a scam. He who has not been sufficiently ‘internalized’ [Javier Milei] Do not exempt it from criminal responsibility. “
With current RT information
