He defines himself as “bitcoinero, anti-communist and Manchesterian capitalist”, believes in the leadership of politicians such as Trump or Bolsonaro and trusts in the free carrying of weapons and is part of the political platform of Javier Milei. Today, in Caja Negra: Carlos Maslatón.At the age of 15, he sent a letter to Margaret Thatcher: “I told him: ‘I am a young Argentine – in English the letter, obviously – who has followed a lot the internals of the Conservative Party tuning in the BBC of London in its transmissions in Spanish and English. And I’ve followed his political ideology I love how he thinks.’ He responded by thanking me and sent me speeches marked with highlighter, very right-wing speeches. I liked… who would have said we were just eight years away from the Falklands War.” “I enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the UBA because I knew that it was the most important faculty politically in the country, with the intention of doing politics. I entered in ’79 and only after the middle of ’82 could I do politics. I always clarify that I am not an economist because I will have problems with the Professional Council of Economic Sciences for usurpation of title,” he said about the beginnings of his political activity.
After 1991 he decided to retire from politics: “I wanted to dedicate myself to finance. I wasn’t bored by politics, it started to seem more routine. It was an ideal time to do finance, because in the 90s, worldwide, markets expanded, they flew. It was an impressive thing. Since the year 92 I no longer had any public office or anything. I never wanted to have anything again. But I’m not angry with politics. I’m not anti-political. I’m a pro-political guy and I think it’s okay to do politics. When I started doing politics in the early 80s in Argentina, it was an avant-garde thing. Finance in the 90s, were avant-garde. I need to be at the forefront.” Regarding cryptocurrencies (which he considers avant-garde), Maslatón told what his thought was when he met them: “They told me that it was a means of payment. But I said it’s not a means of payment, it’s a currency. If this is trading against dollars, it is a currency. It’s going to generate a price. Technists don’t understand much of that, they’re not financial. We are in a moment where we are correcting a very strong momentum that has developed in recent years, where in the case of bitcoin it rose from 3850 to 69000 and now we are correcting that rise. Whenever you have an impulse you will then have a correction that usually one sees as milder than it finally is. But one day it ends and it comes back up.”
If we go to the black box of his life, what was the moment that makes him Carlos Maslatón?: “For me, at 12 years old. My mindset now and the focus of things is 12 years, 12 or 13 years. I became a very autonomous person and I didn’t need to ask my parents for help anymore or I didn’t need to have fun with something anymore, I put things together myself. My personality comes from there. Surely there is a background. I always argued. I was already arguing in kindergarten. I argued with the teacher, with the neighbor in the neighborhood, with my aunts, with my mother. It’s kind of very natural to me.” Towards the end of the interview the black box opens. An unexpected challenge begins. Week after week a figure will submit to the living room to dialogue and reflect. And you, do you dare to remember what moment made a click in your life? News in development…
