Relatives, friends, and awards for allies: the structure that Karina Milei and the Menems created with PAMI and Anses, which worries Santiago Caputo.

The rumblings at the top of the government over the political setup of the Menems and Karina Milei in the PAMI and ANSES delegations across the country exposed the use of state resources to conduct partisan politics, a long-standing practice used by all parties that is now played out to the background of libertarian anti-caste sentiment .

The short circuits between Santiago Caputo's wing and the one answering to the President's sister exposed the shock waves in the Province, where Alfredo Pascual, the PAMI delegate from Junín , who answered to the provincial president of LLA, Sebastián Pareja , was blown up. The audit ordered by Health Minister Mario Lugones, a Caputo pawn, was not enough to silence the internal conflict; in fact, quite the opposite.

In Chaco, Misiones, Santa Cruz, and Buenos Aires, there are legal cases investigating LLA-affiliated authorities for withholding salaries from ANSES and PAMI employees . The former head of the La Plata office reported to the courts and in a suggestive media raid that one of Pareja's owners, Juan Osaba , was demanding one million pesos per month from her.

The president of the Mileísta party in the province where the clean-slate law collapsed , Adrián Núñez, is also under investigation, accused of demanding a percentage of agency employees' salaries. The libertarian leader, with the Menems' approval, had his own bosses in charge of state offices. He has a history in Carlos Rovira's Frente Renovador (Renewal Front ). " He's a shill for the State Attorney General's office and has business dealings in Paraguay ," say officials who know him from his time in the provincial government.

Something similar happened to Jairo Henoch Guzmán , president of the LLA in Santa Cruz, whom Sergio Torres, a libertarian leader expelled from the party, accused of having asked a PAMI doctor for "a contribution." The accusations against Guzmán transcend the corruption scheme. This week, the court ordered him to attend gender workshops and apologize for posting an image of a burning LGBTQ+ flag on social media.

In Chaco, where Radical Governor Leandro Zdero enabled an alliance with LLA in this Sunday's local elections, the federal court is investigating Silvia Arolfo of PAMI and Alfredo "Capi" Rodríguez of ANSES, a delegate for Karina Milei and the Menems. In La Pampa , Julio Jamad, a member of the provincial Executive Council of La Libertad Avanza, acknowledged that "voluntary" contributions were being requested from agency workers and that they were collected "exceptional" in personal accounts .

From north to south, from east to west, the more than 600 care agencies that depend on the 38 Local Management Units of PAMI and the more than 350 ANSES offices support part of the territorial structure of LLA and political agreements with opponents/allies and governors who make their votes weigh in Congress .

In La Rioja, it all stayed in the family: Amado Omar Menem, uncle of the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, is the head of the PAMI branch. Former Parlasur candidate Andrea Juárez remained with ANSES.

The head of that organization in Jujuy is Angela Virginia Zamar, born in San Pedro, the same city as its representative, Senator Carolina Moisés , who voted in favor of the RIGI and split the block of Peronist senators.

The director of PAMI in the province is Evaristo Bautista , who came to his position thanks to LLA deputy Manuel Quintar , a Karina representative. In recent weeks, in the province governed by Radical Carlos Sadir, complaints have multiplied that PAMI patients with disabilities are being referred to the private Lapacho clinic in Alto Comedero, which allegedly belongs to the deputy's family.

In Salta, Cesar Dib, with a background in Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey's administration, has just replaced Sergio López Alcobendas , who in record time accumulated complaints from the private sector for favoring certain private clinics. Marcelo Ezequiel Gómez resigned as head of the ANSES office in San Antonio de los Cobres.

Former Libertarian provincial deputy Gustavo Pantaleón has just resigned from the ANSES delegation in the north of the province to run for provincial senator in this Sunday's elections. Ramiro Nordera is responsible for the southern provincial delegation and also the representative for Senator Juan Carlos Romero's party, one of LLA's key allies in the Senate.

There were also changes in Tucumán. The PAMI leadership has already changed four times . Ernesto Iramain, a career employee who answers to Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, a government ally, ended up replacing the political appointees suspected of overcharging. Among them was Martín Fernández González , a close friend of former gubernatorial candidate Ricardo Bussi, who appointed ANSES chief Mario Aramayo.

The head of the pension agency in Formosa, Patricia Arias , is a permanent official in the provincial administration controlled by Gildo Insfrán since 1995. She has requested leave of absence. She answers to Congressman Gerardo González , with a Gildist past, who also placed Héctor Brizuela at PAMI.

In Corrientes, David Moulian , the provincial representative for LLA, changed his position as head of the local PAMI (National Roads Authority), another platform used by the Menems to run politics. Former Parlasur candidate Miguel Yancovich remained in charge of ANSES (National Social Security Administration).

Karinista power is also being felt in the central region. The leader of the LLA bloc of deputies, Gabriel Bornoroni, placed people he trusted, Marcos Patiño Brizuela, at PAMI; and Andrés Bauza, son of Carlos Menem's former chief of staff, at ANSES. Libertarian provincial legislator Agustín Spaccesi had reported last year that PAMI provides referrals to the Parque sanatorium, managed by Bornoroni's brother-in-law .

In Santa Fe, scandals multiplied . At just 24 years old, Agustín Luque, from the Fuerza Libertaria party, took over ANSES in the Villa Ocampo region. Like everyone else in the province, he answers to Karina Milei's district representative, National Deputy Romina Diez. In Rosario, Guido Orlandi took over the central office of the pension fund, although during the pandemic, he said that " COVID was going to solve the pension deficit." Although he couldn't be appointed to PAMI (National Pension Fund), Martín Tomassini, a licensed gas fitter with a past as a stripper , found a job at ANSES. He remains a fervent libertarian. Diez, a Karina Milei party member, also took over the largest ANSES office in the country and appointed Yamile Tomasson as the party's vice president in the province.

In Entre Ríos, the libertarian employment agency also fuels politics (and internal conflicts). Sebastián Etchevehere , former LLA gubernatorial candidate (and brother of Luis, a former Macri minister), won one of the ANSES branches in Paraná . The other belongs to Cristian Dume, who answers to Representative Roque Fleitas , LLA president in the district and Etchevehere's internal rival . " The positions are coming in ," the leader celebrated at the party's first congress months ago.

Guillermo Deymonnaz had been removed from PAMI under pressure from former government ally Edgardo Kueider. He was eventually relocated to the ANSES branch in Concordia.

In San Luis, the interim president of the Senate , Bartolomé Abdala, appointed the representatives of the organizations in the province.

In Mendoza, Defense Minister Luis Petri managed to deploy his representatives with an eye on the governorship. José Emilio Agu , who was a Defense official, remained with ANSES. The head of PAMI, David Litvinchuk , survived Lourdes Arrieta's expulsion from the ruling party's bloc of deputies, which had appointed him, and now answers to LLA head Facundo Correa Llanos.

One of the ANSES officials is the same one who was in charge during Macri's administration, Silvio Dumé . He was nominated in 2015 and now by Governor Alfredo Cornejo, who is in good standing with the Rosada (National Government). In Uspallata, Gino Genovese , a 20-year-old bartender by profession, He had to resign from the ANSES branch after his appointment became public.

Chat screenshots are circulating these days in which an official of Karina Milei's administration asked Arrieta for names to fill appointments in departments. The name is Diego Vartabedian, a candidate on Manuel Adorni's list in Buenos Aires City .