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IV
ENCOUNTER OF LATIN AMERICA'S MOST
IMPORTANT BUSINESSMEN.
Buenos Aires, April 2006
They
are the most richest men in Latin America, each one is accustomed
to bill more than one billion dolars each year and between
March 29th to 31th they met in Buenos Aires at the IV Entrepreneurial
Summit of Latin America.
Between
the assistants there was the precandidate to the presidency
of Ecuador, Alvaro Noboa Pontón, who arrived with
his wife, the medical Anabella Azín and three of
his four children. They lodged in the exclusive Alvear Hotel,
wich also was host of the event.
The
summit was born in the 2003 by initiative of the Mexican
Carlos Slim - proprietor of "America Móvil"
and the richest man of Latin America - and its friends:
the mass media tycoons Gustavo Cisneros (Venezuela) and
Julio Mario Santo Domingo (Colombia). The first summit was
made in Mexico, the following year it was in Dominican Republic
and in the 2005 was the turn of Sao Paulo (Brazil).
Within
the present edition of the Entrepreneurial Summit was made
the annual "Fathers and Sons Encounter", in where
the young industralists formed in the handling of great
companies. The children of Noboa were also protagonists
of the summit: Daniel, the older son, 18 years old; Carla,
15, and John Sebastian (he likes to be called Juan), with
only 14. All of them speak three languages and were active
protagonists. The youngest, Santiago, 5 years old, remained
in Guayaquil studying English. This encounter, made Wednesday,
was the first activity of the Summit and the young people
discussed on their perspective of future like next managers
of the companies of their parents. At night, the 220 assistants
concurred to a welcome dinner within the elegant hotel,
the dinner included a show of tango dancers which were continuously
applauded.
On
the next day it was the turn of discussion panels of the
industralists and important political figures, like former
presidents Felipe González (Spain), César
Gaviria (Colombia) and Julio Sanguinetti (Uruguay). The
event began minutes before 10am. with the speech of the
local host, Ricardo Esteves (Velox Group). The welcome words
were left in charge of Slim and of the Argentinean Alexander
Bulgheroni (Bulgheroni Group). That day was the turn of
the speech of Noboa, that was centered in the social problematic
and the work of its foundation. "I am a man with the
heart put toward the people. I have the Foundation Crossed
New Humanity wich maintain five moving clinics that take
care of 500 people per day , each one... The international
tendency of the industralists to be conscious of its social
roll is very positive ", said Noboa.
At
night, the industralists made row in the door of the aristocratic
hotel to board the omnibus that would lead them to the Museum
of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, where their owner,
Eduardo Constantini, offered the assistants with a dinner
in full dress. The dresses and jewels of the women and the
suits and clocks of the men did not leave doubts that were
multimillionaires. At those moments also queen Beatriz of
Holland was guest of the hotel, also prince Guillermo and
his wife Maxima Zorriegueta was lodged there. In the dinner
Noboa was seen very amused in company of his Brazilian colleagues
.
During
the encounter, Noboa also took advantage to strengthen his
good relations with Slim, Cisneros, Emilio Azcárraga
(Television) and the Argentineans Paolo Rocca (Techint),
Alexander Roemmers (Roemmers Laboratories) and Constantini.
This group maintained one of the divergent positions in
the forum with respect to the mechanisms to lower unemployment
and proposed to give opportunities to the people who were
left outside the market until the world arrives to the expected
perfection. The other group pointed out to the specialization
to be able to obtain better remunerated jobs.
In
the final day the debate returned to be centered in the
social responsibility and the conclusions of the encounter
were read by Slim, Jose Fanjul (Dominican Republic) and
Cisneros. Saturday April 1st. the children of Noboa took
an airplane towards Guayaquil, whereas her wife did it on
Monday 3rd. Alvaro Noboa, however, assured that he would
remain all the week in his offices of Buenos Aires doing
businesses and thinking about his presidential candidacy
that he promised to make official in the month of July.
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