A select group of Uruguayan businessmen participated on Wednesday night of the Annual Liberty Dinnerin Buenos Airesin which the president Luis Lacalle Pou He was one of the featured speakers.
The event, organized by the think tank Freedom Foundation –with historical ties with Macrismo and, now also, with the libertarian government of Javier Milei– meeting for 1,500 attendees, including politicians and businessmen, most of them Argentine.
Lacalle Pou’s participation in the liberal forum, widely highlighted by the president of the foundation Gerardo Bongiovanni and other leaders of the ideological arc such as former presidents Mauricio Macri and Jorge Quiroga from Bolivia, was followed in the complex Goldencenter by a small Uruguayan group.
The businessmen who crossed the pond to participate in the stellar night of the President of the Republic They were Mauricio La BuonoraCEO of the company La Buonora y Asociados –which recently announced a landing in Argentina-; Alejandro Ruibaldirector of Saceem and president of the Construction Chamber; Luis Martinezdirector Mazars Uruguay; Marcos Taranto, CEO of Stiler; and Martin Guerrafounding partner of the fintechs incapital, Paigo and Handy.
Furthermore, as I had anticipated Ambitthe president of Center for Development Studies (CED), Hernan Bonillaand the former director of that think tank and current advisor to the presidential candidate’s campaign Alvaro Delgado, Agustín Iturraldewere also part of the Uruguayan delegation.
Bonilla was even mentioned by President Luis Lacalle Pou during his speech when he told how he discovered the phrase that has marked his political presentations: “Firm with ideas, but soft with people.”
The president’s speech, which lasted more than 12 minutes, was highly valued by the political sectors related to Macrismo present last night, but it generated some discomfort among the referents of Freedom Advances (LLA), he knew Ambit.
Specifically, and as Javier Milei’s followers on social networks noted, the contrast between Lacalle Pou and the Argentine president on the role that the State should play in liberal democracies was the point of contention.
“There are things that are in the DNA of our country and no one discusses them anymore. Among them a strong state“, he stated before 1,500 liberal and libertarian politicians and businessmen, including the president himself. Javier Milei. And he clarified: “It does not mean a large State. Surely it doesn’t have to have much dimension to be strong. It means having strong institutions and for this there has to be a clear separation of powers, which is not divorce.”
“There has to be a democracy strong and, what I am going to say is not very popular, but we owe it in Uruguay to the political parties. Without them, democracy is more risky,” highlighted Lacalle Pou.
Among the Argentine business community present were Cristiano Rattazziestablished in Uruguay; Gabriel Martino from FLInvest; Alejandro Gravierand Miguel Zarzurfrom Zarzur Investment.
Source: Ambito
