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CHILD LABOR

         
       

 

  
 
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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