Carlos Gustavo Maslatón (born 19 December 1958) is an Argentine
lawyer
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,
financial analyst
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trader, bitcoin advocate,
influencer
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, and former
politician
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. Originally active in student politics, he was elected to the
Buenos Aires
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City Council
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La Libertad Avanza
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. He briefly intended to run for
president
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Maslatón was born on 19 December 1958 in Buenos Aires to a family of
Syrian Jews
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active in the textile business. All his grandparents came from
Damascus
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, except for his paternal grandmother, who was from
Ä°zmir
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. He studied at the
University of Buenos Aires
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Faculty of Law
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students' union
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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''". In 1987, he was elected to the
City of Buenos Aires
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Deliberative Council
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for Unión del Centro Democrático. He proposed reducing the number of members of the city legislature from 60 to 30. 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.
Ahead of the 2023 general election, Maslatón announced his intention to run for president as part of the
La Libertad Avanza
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(LLA) coalition. He intended to dispute the coalition's nomination against Milei in the PASO primaries. 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.
Personal life
In June 2022 he was denied access to the Bagatelle Restaurant in Buenos Aires due to his sneakers not being up to par with the restaurant's dress code, leading to the restaurant being
review bombed
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on Google Maps by his Twitter followers.
He was kicked out from
Javier Milei
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's political entourage after going against his sister Karina and political consultant Carlos Kikuchi.
Maslatón is well known for his love of
sushi
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and resides in the luxurious
Kavanagh Building
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.
During the
2022 FIFA World Cup
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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. He broke the previous record of 31 matches set by Thulani Ngcobo in the
2010 FIFA World Cup
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by attending his 32nd match between Brazil and South Korea on December 5, 2022.
Maslatón's current weight is 0.0954 tons, down 0.0476 tons from his all-time-high, and down 0.0372 tons from December 4 2024. According to Maslatón himself, that date marked the beginning of his participation in a clinical trial run by
Eli Lilly and Company
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Tirzepatide
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, and exercises, most notably climbing the stairs of the Kavannagh Building.