BARILOCHE.– The president Javier Miley landed this Thursday night in this city, along with the general secretary of the Presidency, Karina Mileiand the Secretary of State, Manuel Adornito participate in the exclusive Llao Llao forumwhere the event will close today.
The mandatary used the presidential plane Tango 11, after the Ministry of Security recommended that he stop using commercial airplanes. Then flew by helicopter to reach the Llao Llao hotel, where the event takes place. Milei will close the forum today and at 5 p.m. he returns to Buenos Aires, although at one point it was thought that he would stay until Saturday.
Since early Wednesday, a maximum security operation began near the hotel, where a Gendarmerie van was parked and several security officers got out to begin guard duty.
At the Teniente Candelaria international airport he received an official welcome from the mayor of San Carlos de Bariloche, Walter Cortesand the provincial minister of Government, Federico Lutz. “President He was received with different distinctions and gifts from the city., before embarking on the trip to the Llao Llao hotel. Minister Lutz presented him with a flag of the province of Río Negro”said the local municipality.
Milei will be the third president to participate in this year’s forum, after the presence of his peers, the Uruguayan Luis Lacalle Pou and the Paraguayan Santiago Pena, who he will meet at the hotel. This is Milei’s third participation in the forum.
The tranquility of Llao Llao was altered during the last three days as a result of the exclusive forum, behind closed doors of the press, which is organized every year by the businessman Eduardo Elsztain (IRSA Group) in the hotel it owns with David Sutton (Alvear Group).
Although the meeting was born with a very low profile, in recent editions it began to take on more and more relevance in the public debate as a result of the businessmen who participate – such as Marcos Galperin (Mercado Libre), Carlos Miguens (San Miguel) and Martín Eurnekian (Airports Argentina 2000)– and the speakers they invite, such as the President Javier Miley and international leaders Luis Lacalle Pou (Uruguay) and Santiago Pena (Paraguay).
Among the 120 guests who will participate in this edition are Galperin, Martin Migoya y Guibert Englebienne (Globe), Matías Woloski (Auth0), Gaston Taratuta (Aleph Group), Carlos and Antonia Miguens (San Miguel), Andrea Pagani (Bow), Veronica Andreani (Andreani), Martin Eurnekian, Alberto Arizu (Luigi Bosca), Sebastian of Montalembert (Peñaflor Group), Roberto Murchison, Emiliano Kargieman (Satellogic) y Máximo Cavazzani (Etermax).
The Llao Llao forum was born in 2012, although at that time it had another name. After the ashes of Puyehue Volcano They would cover this city, Elsztain proposed to the group of entrepreneurs that make up Endeavor Argentina a meeting at the hotel to celebrate the reopening. The objective was to talk outside the routine sphere and find common points between business, politics and social sectors. In 2016 it began to be formally called Llao Llao Forum.
Since then, seven editions have been made, of which an average of between 70 and 100 entrepreneurs participate in each one. Most of the business leaders are the same each edition, since those who make up the board of directors of Endeavor – the organization that supports entrepreneurs – and those who are part of the association Generation for a Better Argentina (GAM) are invited, a group of family businesses. Meetings are financed through voluntary contributions from members.
The event usually lasts three days and Different representatives from the social, political, union and scientific spheres of the country are invited, “without giving rise to the political or ideological orientation that each one represents,” the organization said. “The underlying spirit is to think about how we can contribute to the creation of a better country, that is why we created this environment to be able to chat,” they added.
In past editions, for example, participants Mauricio Macri, Horace Rodriguez Larreta, Martin Guzman and Eduardo Wado De Pedro.