Buh-Bye Luis, it's been real
Just over a month after he was appointed Vice-President in charge of the Economy, Luis Salas has been fired in favor of Miguel Pérez Abad.


Just over a month after he was appointed Vice-President in charge of the Economy, Luis Salas has been fired, (for “family reasons”) in favor of Miguel Pérez Abad.
The removal of the famously crazy Salas and his replacement by a still hardline but somewhat more earth-bound figure can only be good news.
One day, when this story is told in full, we’ll find out who leaked Salas’s pro-default views to the press, whether that person’s name rhymes with “Bérezadab”, and how that episode figured into Salas’s downfall exactly. That day, sadly, is not today.
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