The Minister of Economy accumulates more management resources. He fired two men from Fernando Vilella’s kidney to hire people around him. What will the new organization chart look like?
The rumors that place Luis Caputo in a position of weakness appear to be false. The Minister of Economy is empowered and accumulates more and more management resources within the government of Javier Milei. This Friday he ordered the dismissal of two close collaborators of the Secretary of Agriculture, Fernando Vilella. These are the undersecretaries Pedro Vigneau and Germán Di Bella. As Ámbito learned, In the next few hours, the appointment of Sergio Iraeta and Manuel Chiappe, closest to the head of the Treasury Palace, will be made official.. In the sector they believe that the next target will be Vilella himself.
Bluntly. A man very close to Caputo acknowledged to this medium that the changes in the portfolio that carries the link with the field were to locate “like-minded people””. Thus, the Minister of Economy gains influence in a key area during these hours. The thing is that between the second half of April and May, the Government expects the soybean sector to liquidate the coarse harvest in an accelerated manner. There are about US$ 30,000 million, which the entities for now doubt while waiting for “a better price.”
The minister’s influence already extends to the entire management of the Government. In December, when the new State scheme was determined, it kept the National Treasury Contributions (ATN), the non-automatic funds that the Nation distributes to the Provinces and that historically was held by the Ministry of the Interior to carry out political negotiations with the governors in office.
Then, at the beginning of March when the departure of the former Minister of Infrastructure, Guillermo Ferraro, was made official, Caputo took over responsibilities that previously belonged to that portfolio such as Transportation, Public Works, Housing and Habitat. It had previously incorporated others that were not foreseen in the initial scheme such as Energy and Mining.
The departures of the now former undersecretaries Vigneau and Di Bella took the sector by surprise: “They were men very close to Secretary Fernando Vilella and were the usual interlocutors on management issues,” explained the head of one of the main agricultural entities.
In that sense, three business sources considered that The displacement of former officials jeopardizes the position of the Secretary of Agriculture, who due to the restructuring that will be made official in the next few hours, will become secretary of “Bioeconomy.” In any case, in the sector they believe that this is a first step and that the definitive objective will also be to replace Vilella.
Economy sources denied any type of short circuit between Caputo and President Milei. The facts support that idea. Specifically, the minister has more and more responsibilities and more management tools. Last Friday, Caputo himself was in charge of revealing that parities will not be approved above inflation because this discussion is part of the “general balance.”
According to a version of the decree reorganizing the structure of Ministries that Ámbito was able to access, Vilella will lose control of three of the seven undersecretaries that he was in charge of. Thus, the former dean of the Faculty of Agronomy will lose weight compared to Juan Pazo, the Secretary of Industry and Productive Development, who today is seen in the sector as Caputo’s main reference for productive issues.
Source: Ambito
