Milei attacked LA NACION again over the $LIBRA case and said he does not rule out taking legal action

rss · La Nacion 2026-10-24T20:29:43Z es
President Javier Milei attacked LA NACION again this Saturday, and in particular journalist Hugo Alconada Mon, over the coverage of the $LIBRA case, the cryptocurrency he promoted that caused massive losses for its investors. After his dismissal from the case, by a ruling from federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi, he said he did not rule out taking legal action. Speaking with Radio Mitre, the president reiterated that the coverage of the judicial case was an "operation" and left the door open to initiate legal action against the journalists who followed the case. During Gabriel Anello's program, Milei targeted LA NACION and directly attacked its editor Fernán Saguier. He also repeatedly called Alconada Mon a "criminal." "For a year, eight months and nine days, the media were smearing me. Specifically the LA NACION group, under the total and absolute responsibility of Fernán Saguier, who shielded the criminal Hugo Alconada Mon as he told lies throughout this entire time. Alconada Mon was lying about things happening in the United States. I myself sent that same material to Saguier so he would take notice that I was being slandered, insulted, and that my honor was being stained by a criminal, and yet he continued," he lashed out. And he accused: "The problem was that LA NACION had a tax debt and they used this to extort and pressure me. The Movistar [Arena] debt. It is evident that it was a corporate strategy in which the outlet was used to smear me, slander me, stain my good name and honor, and attempt a coup d'état." Then, he linked the media coverage to the creation of the $LIBRA case investigative commission in the National Congress. "All these lies that were fabricated, which is an enormous institutional irregularity, created the $LIBRA case commission. Since when is Congress supposed to devote itself to judging? It is an enormous institutional scandal, an overreach by the powers of Congress with respect to the Judiciary. It is an institutional absurdity, and moreover with political operatives who also work at the LA NACION newspaper, where the responsibility of the Saguier family lies in manufacturing cases against innocent people in order to extort. It is a scandal of enormous gravity," he attacked. When asked whether he will take legal action after his dismissal, he stated: "I have to evaluate it with my lawyers because it is a scandal of mammoth proportions. It is extortion. They seek to generate chaos, smear the figure of the President, and generate a coup d'état to try to obtain political favors." And when Anello asked whether the goal behind LA NACION's coverage was "to make the case over the Movistar Arena debt go away," Milei replied: "Exactly, that was the motive." Story in development.

Translated from es by z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

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