The surge of the blue dollar that generated the “Aracre case” – with an increase from $400 to $440, i.e. 10%, between Monday and this Thursday – led, on the one hand, to the inmates were exposed in public of the Government between Alberto Fernández, Sergio Massa and even the spokeswoman Gabriela Cerruti, as she said clarion. On the other hand, the fight has also exposed the “line drop” that there was within the team of the Ministry of Economy a for each member to view all of their contacts trying to limit the spread of the financial crisis in the media, social networks and even informal portals dedicated to following the march of the dollar.
“People from second or third line of the Ministry from Economy messaged us indirectly, asking for it we do not update the blue dollar value in real time, as we usually dobut that we do it less times a day, following the news portals”, they said in one of the many sites dedicated to showing the different prices of the US ticket, in which they are aware that officials have also contacted other similar portals.
Thus, for example, on Tuesday the blue dollar suddenly jumped from 400 to 408 dollars, according to the main news sites, when there had been a gradual increase between the two values which was not reflected on the pages.
While trying to contain the spread of the blue price, the people of Massa contacted their media contacts to try promote other information that was not related to the foreign exchange market more insistently than usual or demanding that the number of stories related to the skyrocketing dollar appear on the front pages of news sites be limited.
The blue’s advance, which had been lagging behind the rally in financial dollars, began Tuesday during a lunch that Alberto Fernández and his then adviser Antonio Aracre had on Monday, in response to 7.7% inflation data. March that INDEC communicated on Friday.
The former Syngenta chief executive brought proposals that included, among other things, further doubling of exchange rates to curb imports and limit the dollars given to companies to pay off debts abroad.
The meeting sparked the version that Aracre could succeed Massa and, from there, the detainees rose until the departure of the presidential adviser.
Source: Clarin
