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Carlos Maslatón
Councilor of the Federal Capital
In office
10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991
Personal details
Born (1958-12-19) 19 December 1958 (age 65)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
NationalityArgentine, Spanish[1]
Political partyUnion of the Democratic Centre (1983–1993)
Other political
affiliations		Federal Commitment (2013)
La Libertad Avanza (since 2021)
ResidenceRetiro, Buenos Aires
EducationUniversity of Buenos Aires

Carlos Gustavo Maslatón (born 19 December 1958) is an Argentine lawyer,[2] financial analyst,[3] trader, bitcoin advocate,[4][5] influencer,[6] and former politician. Originally active in student politics, he was elected to the Buenos Aires City Council in 1987 as part of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCEDE).

Since 2021, he has been part of La Libertad Avanza. He briefly intended to run for president in the 2023 elections.[7][8]

Early life

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Maslatón was born on 19 December 1958 in Buenos Aires to a family of Syrian Jews active in the textile business.[9] All his grandparents came from Damascus, except for his paternal grandmother, who was from İzmir. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Law, where he became politically active.[10]

Political career

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In 1983, he founded Unión para la Apertura Universitaria[11][12][13] which won the students' union elections in the Faculty of Law in 1987, 1988 and 1989. He has been described as the "Godfather of the new style and method of university politics".[12] In 1987, he was elected to the City of Buenos Aires Deliberative Council for Unión del Centro Democrático. He proposed reducing the number of members of the city legislature from 60 to 30.[14] He was a large shareholder of the online broker Patagon when it was sold in 2000, before the dotcom bubble crash, for 750 million dollars.[15][16]

Ahead of the 2023 general election, Maslatón announced his intention to run for president as part of the La Libertad Avanza (LLA) coalition. He intended to dispute the coalition's nomination against Milei in the PASO primaries.[7] On 20 January 2023, the coalition refused his request to contest the nomination. Maslatón then stood back from the contest and announced he would remain a member of LLA.[8]

Personal life

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In June 2022 he was denied access to the Bagatelle Restaurant in Buenos Aires due to his On Cloudswift sneakers not being up to par with the restaurant's dress code, leading to the restaurant being review bombed on Google Maps by his Twitter followers.[17][18][19]

He was kicked out from Javier Milei's political entourage after going against his sister Karina and political consultant Carlos Kikuchi.[20]

Maslatón is well known for his love of sushi[21] and resides in the luxurious Kavanagh Building.[22][23]

During the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Maslatón sought to attend as many matches possible while chronicling his trip on Twitter. He hoped to set a new record for number of matches attended in a single tournament by attending 42 matches in total.[24] He broke the previous record of 31 matches set by Thulani Ngcobo in the 2010 FIFA World Cup by attending his 32nd match between Brazil and South Korea on December 5, 2022.[25]

References

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  1. ^ Maslatón, Carlos [@CarlosMaslaton] (24 January 2022). "He readquirido mi nacionalidad española que me fuera despojada por iniciativa del inquisidor Torquemada en 1492 y firmada por Isabel de Castilla y Fernando de Aragón en el decreto de La Alhambra y el Edicto de Granada. Hoy juré fidelidad al Rey y obediencia a la Constitución. https://t.co/7FbsUjPDWs" [I have reacquired my Spanish nationality that was stripped from me at the initiative of the inquisitor Torquemada in 1492 and signed by Isabel of Castilla and Fernando de Aragón in the decree of the Alhambra and the Edict of Granada. Today I swore fidelity to the King and obedience to the Constitution.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Elecciones 2021: Martín Tetaz y Carlos Maslatón apostaron quién saldrá segundo en la Ciudad". 14 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Carlos Maslatón y la crisis que viene: El inminente y apocalíptico pronóstico del influencer financiero más polémico".
  4. ^ "Carlos Maslatón apuesta a la criptomoneda: "Bitcoin llegará a 1 millón de dólares antes del 2026"". iProfesional.
  5. ^ "Quién es Carlos Maslatón, el "rey" de Bitcoin: furioso militante anti cuarentena y amigo de Milei y Moreno". www.cronista.com.
  6. ^ Matías Barbería (19 October 2021). "Se subastó el NFT del pronóstico del influencer financiero más polémico de Argentina: cuánto pagaron". infobae.
  7. ^ a b "Carlos Maslatón: "Yo voy a ser candidato a presidente y quiero disputarle una interna a Milei"". Perfil (in Spanish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Maslaton no competirá con Milei: se queda en LLA para "enfrentar a la troika corrupta y políticamente suicida"". El Economista (in Spanish). 21 January 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  9. ^ Maldonado, José (11 December 2022). "El liberal de las mil vidas". Letra P (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  10. ^ Conti, Dante (28 November 2022). "48 horas con Carlos Maslatón: el twittero y liberal de las mil vidas que es furor en Qatar". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2023.
  11. ^ "Extra". 1985.
  12. ^ a b Gibson, Edward L. (1990). "Democracy and the New Electoral Right in Argentina".
  13. ^ Sourtech. "Veinticinco años de UPAU - El Estadista". elestadista.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  14. ^ "Lecciones y ensayos". 1992.
  15. ^ "El rey de Bitcoin que predijo la crisis contó "la cocina" de la empresa furor en los 90". www.cronista.com.
  16. ^ "A casi una década del boom puntocom, vuelve uno de los ex-Patagon". 31 August 2009.
  17. ^ "Carlos Maslatón no pudo comer en un restaurante y sus seguidores se vengaron de la peor manera". Crónica (in European Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  18. ^ Maslatón, Carlos [@CarlosMaslaton] (4 June 2022). "Varios analistas de la noche porteña me están sugiriendo que el argumento de mis zapatillas On para no dejarme entrar a Bagatelle es pura jarta. Y que tal vez no me vieron con disposición suficiente para invitar a mi mesa a parte del gaterío que, me dicen, opera allí fuertemente" [Several analysts of the Buenos Aires night are suggesting that the argument of my On shoes for not letting me enter Bagatelle is pure jarta. And that perhaps they didn't see me willing enough to invite part of the cattery to my table that, they tell me, operates strongly there.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  19. ^ "Cloudswift - Road Shoe For Urban Running | On". www.on-running.com. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  20. ^ "Interna: Carlos Maslatón acusó a la hermana de Javier Milei de llevar al espacio libertario "a la catástrofe"". LA NACION (in Spanish). 13 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  21. ^ Maslatón, Carlos [@CarlosMaslaton] (3 August 2020). "Este sushi además de ser de alta calidad, consumido en algún lugar de la categoría geográfica que la dictadura reputa como AMBA, tiene otras dos grandes ventajas: 1) es clandestino; 2) es barrani. Se lo dedico a los alcahuetes chupamedias del régimen maoísta establecido el 20/3. https://t.co/jAdRaUepou" [This sushi, in addition to being of high quality, consumed somewhere in the geographical category that the dictatorship calls AMBA, has two other great advantages: 1) it is clandestine; 2) is Barrani. I dedicate it to the stock-sucking pimps of the Maoist regime established on 3/20.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  22. ^ "Vivir en el Kavanagh, un lujo para vecinos de perfil bajo". Clarín (in Spanish). 24 July 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  23. ^ Maslatón, Carlos [@CarlosMaslaton] (16 May 2021). "@detectordebolu1 18" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 18 August 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  24. ^ Maslatón, Carlos [@CarlosMaslaton] (5 December 2022). "Anticipo también que veré en este Qatar 2022 un total de 42 partidos, y aclaro que ver no significa llegar a una cancha y sacarse una foto, o sea no es un toco y me voy con un laissez passer de acomodado, sino mirarlo en butaca de tribuna en su totalidad o en un 80% al menos" [I also anticipate that I will see a total of 42 games in this Qatar 2022, and I clarify that seeing does not mean arriving at a field and taking a photo, that is, it is not a touch and I go with a laissez-faire passer-by, but looking at it in a seat grandstand in its entirety or in at least 80%.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  25. ^ "Carlos Maslaton en Qatar 2022: rompió el récord Guinness de partidos más vistos". www.cronista.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2022.
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