\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t The Argentine government\u2019s chief of staff, Manuel Adorni, has come under fire for including his wife in the presidential entourage that accompanied Javier Milei to Argentina Week, a high-level diplomatic and financial summit held in New York between March 9-12 to attract international investment to Argentina.<\/p>\n
Opposition deputies submitted a request for information to the lower house, after Adorni confirmed during an interview that his spouse, Bettina Angeletti, was \u201cinvited by the President\u2019s office\u201d to join the official delegation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is, it was my wish that she would accompany me,\u201d he told journalist Eduardo Feinmann, from A24 news channel, speaking from New York. \u201cI\u2019m coming to work my tail off for a week or five days in the United States, and I wanted my wife to come with me because she\u2019s my life partner,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
According to the official, the fact that his wife traveled on the presidential plane and stayed with him at a five star hotel did not involve any additional cost to the Argentine taxpayer. \u201cWe didn\u2019t take a single peso from the State,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
Critics highlighted that just a week ago, the office of the Chief of Staff issued an Administrative Decision that limited official trips abroad to a maximum of one official per international event or activity, to optimize resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The measure requires substantiated justification for expanding delegations and establishes that the chief of staff is the person responsible for approving the transfer of ministers or other officials in equivalent positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The presence of Bettina Angeletti, who works as an ontological coach, in New York was discovered by chance, when a journalist recognized her in photographs taken during the official delegation\u2019s visit to the tomb of the Lubavitch Rebbe in Queens, as part of Javier Milei\u2019s trip to the United States.<\/p>\n
This prompted a request for information from the opposition to determine who paid for the trip, what role Angeletti played, and whether any potential conflicts of interest were assessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Clar\u00edn newspaper, Adorni\u2019s wife was not the only spouse accompanying the Argentine officials in New York. Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno\u2019s wife, Josefina, also joined the group. However, the Foreign Ministry clarified that Quirno\u2019s partner \u2014 who had also accompanied him on official trips to Rome and Munich \u2014 did not travel on the presidential plane, is not part of the official delegation, and had been in the U.S. for a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Argentine government\u2019s chief of staff, Manuel Adorni, has come under fire for including his wife in the presidential entourage that accompanied Javier Milei to Argentina Week, a high-level diplomatic and financial summit held in New York between March 9-12 to attract international investment to Argentina. Opposition deputies submitted a request for information to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[801,480,254,59],"tags":[2559,2077,6563,86],"class_list":["post-41474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corruption","category-manuel-adorni","category-milei","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-manuel-adorni","tag-milei","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}