Even with the World Cup finally underway and football dominating screens across the country, Argentina remains transfixed by a very different spectacle.
Two days after Chief of Staff Manuel Adorni revealed that the wealth behind his high-spending lifestyle since joining the government in late 2023 stemmed from an undeclared Bitcoin investment over a decade earlier, the political fallout continues.
The controversy, which has already triggered a judicial investigation, is overshadowing almost everything else in the national conversation.
In a bid to project an image of unity and show government support for Adorni, Presidential Secretary Karina Milei shared a picture on X on Thursday of a meeting of the administration’s top political coordination group where senior officials celebrated Senator Patricia Bullrich’s 70th birthday.
The image showed Bullrich — leader of the ruling party La Libertad Avanza‘s bloc in the Senate — smiling as she blew out the candles on a cake, surrounded by members of the cabinet and senior aides, among them Adorni.
