A 1978 decree reveals that Ricardo López Murphy studied in Chicago while receiving a state salary and per diem in dollars
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In recent hours, an X account published images of an official document dated September 15, 1978, signed by Jorge Rafael Videla and José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, which granted Ricardo López Murphy an extraordinary paid leave for 730 days to pursue studies at the University of Chicago.
Decree No. 2164, accessed by La Derecha Diario, also authorizes a daily allowance of 25 dollars for two years—more than 18,000 USD in total—and round-trip tickets for his entire family on Aerolíneas Argentinas.
"Considering that the official will be traveling with his family—wife and children—it has been deemed appropriate to assign him a daily sum of twenty-five US dollars," states the official text.
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At that time, López Murphy was serving as Coordinator of the Fiscal Analysis Area of the Treasury Secretariat. The document justifies such travel with the motivation of training to perform the position.
López Murphy has repeatedly positioned himself as an example of "austerity and transparency," recently distancing himself from President Javier Milei by questioning the government's economic direction. However, the congressman who demands explanations for the actions of all officials is the same one who received an extraordinary paid leave and per diem funding during Videla's de facto government. The discovery of the 1978 decree makes that narrative uncomfortable: the man who denounces excessive spending was a direct beneficiary of public funds during the military dictatorship.
Incómodo hallazgo, un decreto que compromete a Lopez Murphy
López Murphy's case once again shows that, in Argentina, the entire political class is simply interested in maintaining its personal status and not in benefiting the country.
