One Year of Sergio Iraeta as Milei's Agriculture Secretary: Pazo's Brother-in-Law, Who Is Learning to Speak in Public

In July 2024, exactly one year ago, one of the most shameful events in Argentina's agricultural policy history occurred: the head of the Agriculture Secretariat (or Bioeconomy, as he liked to define it), former Agronomy Dean Fernando Vilella, was fired by Juan Pazo on a flight scale while returning from China. According to him, because his positions "perhaps were too advanced for the time". According to Fat Dan, who had demanded his dismissal on social media, because he was out of tune with the libertarian government's iron discipline. In any case, that opprobrious dismissal triggered the rise of Sergio Iraeta as Agriculture Secretary, who a couple of months earlier had entered the substitute bench as undersecretary, without any previous experience in public service or agricultural policy. He was so unknown that there wasn't even a photo of him to illustrate his appointment. The man was a lawyer and farmer - with offices in Barrio Norte - associated with his brother Domingo in ...