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Rosario
“I agree. I love Rosario, and I go every time I can. It also has an amazing scene of, not just food, but also entrepreneurship.”
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“I agree. I love Rosario, and I go every time I can. It also has an amazing scene of, not just food, but also entrepreneurship.”
other / likes
“It is a strong contender, but I would think El secreto de sus ojos, The Secret in Their Eyes, is my favorite film about Argentina because of what it says about the very difficult period of modernization, and in particular, the horrors of the last military regime that marked us so much that it still defines our politics 50 years since.”
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01 / belief
“Underrated always. The best cinema, and Fellini, I think, the best filmmaker of the century.”
02 / belief
“Brazil is at the heart of MERCOSUR, which should have become a European Union for Latin America and never did, never embraced free markets in the way that the free trader of the Americas would have done, but Chavez and Lula and Kirchner stopped it, I think negatively affecting the whole region back in 2004, 2005 when Chavez famously said, “ALCA, ALCA, al carajo.”
03 / belief
“I think for a lot of countries, that will be true. But you have to consider the weight of Chinese trade for certain countries, and how Chinese trade for certain countries in Southeast Asia and also in Latin America is so important to at least certain countries driven by ideology, or just the need to diversify their future options, would choose to at least leave the option open of doing some transactions in this new currency, and not entirely depend on the US dollar.”
04 / belief
“I think Bitcoin is a very useful store value; not great to transact on your daily needs.”
05 / belief
“Historically speaking, I think that, generally, we have oscillated between these two models.”
06 / belief
“I think he was the right personality at the right time but, ultimately, overrated as a political leader, and my Macronista friends will have to forgive me for that.”
07 / belief
“I think that, in retrospect, Macri would say that he didn’t seek enough of a wider backing for the kind of reforms that he needed to enact — like Spain did in 1975, if you will, or Chile did after Pinochet — having some basic agreements with the opposition that would outlive a defeat in the elections.”
08 / belief
“Underrated, I think. Essential for 20th-century philosophy and how we conceive of ourselves in the world.”
09 / belief
“I personally believe that that’s what also Argentina should be doing. That’s part of why I did Ualá and started Ualá here, because I think that Argentina needs a digital soy.”
10 / belief
“Whereas learning from history, I think that in order to craft the best team, you have to have them fully aligned with you, and give them the power to really execute on what they know about.”
11 / belief
“I think Chile is still a success story, especially when you compare it to Argentina, which has created net poor people in the last 30 years versus reducing it.”