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07/26/2021 12:01 PM
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Updated 07/26/2021 12:14 PM
Enrique "Pepe" Albistur
is a historical publicist of Peronism and who regained visibility in recent days after his wife, the national official Victoria Tolosa Paz, sounded like the candidate of the Frente de Todos in the province of Buenos Aires, sponsored by Alberto Angel Fernandez.
Friend of the current President, he
was close to all the Peronist governments from 1973 to here
.
contributing from his expertise as a man of the media and advertising, and occupying the position of Media Secretary with the Kirchners.
"Pepe" is an influential businessman who was a publicist for the presidential campaign of Italo Argentino Luder, the Peronist candidate in 1983. But
according to Albistur, he worked before in Héctor Cámpora's campaign
, organizing street graffiti and even in some partisan magazine. epoch.
Then he fulfilled that role with Carlos Menem and also with the former Peronist mayor of Buenos Aires Carlos Grosso, at the time when he was awarded the large
business of street signs in the City of Buenos Aires
.
He was also a key figure in the dissemination of Kirchner governments.
Through his company - "Equipment for Diffusion", created 50 years ago, he appears from time to time with posters setting a position on issues that concern Peronist administrations.
Albistur was born on November 17, 1947. Every November 17 the Peronist Militancy Day is celebrated, in homage to that day in 1972 when Juan Domingo Perón returned to Argentina after a long exile: "Perón came to Argentina for my birthday ", is a joke that the businessman repeats before his Peronist friends.
That day he was 25 years old.
Pepe Albistur.
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At the time, K was appointed as
Media Secretary
, who depended on the structure of the Cabinet Headquarters, which was occupied by Alberto Fernández.
There they forged their friendship.
From that chair, which managed the millionaire official guideline,
Albistur left 2009, resigning after the opening of three court cases
on charges of illicit enrichment and irregular handling of the official guideline, accused of giving official guideline to advertising companies on public roads. with which it was linked.
"I resign my honors, but not my fighting position," he wrote in his resignation, paraphrasing Eva Perón.
In April 2014,
federal judge Julián Ercolini ordered an accounting expert opinion on the assets of the former media secretary
and on his family group, which was carried out by experts from the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
This investigation arose after a complaint from the then Administrative Investigations Prosecutor Manuel Garrido.
In December 2019, they dictated the lack of merit to Albistur.
2003: Alberto Fernández as chief of staff in the swearing-in of the secretaries: José "Pepe" Albistur did it as media secretary.
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Albistur has added in these years an extensive list of firms that he formed for his work as a publicist: Wall Street Vía Pública, Liberapart, Accal, ND, Equipment for Broadcasting, High Flight Communication, Editorial del Norte, Quintana Comunicación, SistoLemme y Cía, Publicidad Rainbow, Tango Station, Teleroad, Grupo al Sur, Almural, Invaldi, and Onda Norte. Today,
"Grupo al Sur" is the current holding company of the businessman, which manages the ND / Ateneo and Wall Street theater
, which has the 33% bid for urban furniture; two other companies share the remaining 66% equally. They are "Sarmiento", from the Terranova family and "PC Vía Pública" from Gabriel Romero, one of the businessmen who appeared named in the so-called "cause of the notebooks."
Fabiola Yañez, the first lady in the Republic of Children.
with Albistur and Victoria Tolosa Paz.
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Albistur has 7 children (the product of two marriages).
And on July 19, 2007, when the Frente para la Victoria presented its presidential formula Cristina Kirchner-Julio Cleto Cobos, Alberto Fernández personally met Victoria Tolosa Paz, who attended the event at the Argentine Theater in La Plata.
Next to the current President was Cristina's Media Secretary, Enrique "Pepe" Albistur.
After that day, Albistur's first cousin, who was a neighbor in the Marbella resort of Pinamar de los Tolosa Paz, brought them together at a dinner for the three of them. There began the relationship that in 2012 was crowned with a wedding of 400 guests at the Marriott Plaza hotel, with guests from politics and culture, from Estela de Carlotto to Jorge Telerman and Adriana Varela.
During the time that Alberto Fernández was away from Kirchnerism,
Albistur did not lose contact with his friend. For this reason, he rented him an apartment of his property in Puerto Madero
, in which he lived until he became President and moved to the Presidential Residence of Olivos. Although that apartment is still in use by Alberto Fernández, who sometimes uses it, as it is a few blocks from the Casa Rosada. The apartment is located on the 12th floor of the River View building, located at Juana Manso and Manuela Sáenz, and has 120 square meters. He was a neighbor there of Amado Boudou, who left his Harley Davidson in the garage.
About whether or not Alberto Fernández paid the rent for that apartment, Tolosa Paz explained it, a few days ago, in a report on América TV: "He always paid the expenses and the rent.
The rent was in dollars, Argentina devalued in 2008 under the government of Mauricio Macri and Pepe told Alberto to pay only the expenses, "
said the candidate today.
"Pepe has been my friend for 30 years, that's why he lends me the apartment. I pay the expenses, taxes and other expenses," Fernández had explained earlier.
Victoria Tolosa Paz signing her candidacy at the Casa Rosada.
When the Fernández-Fernández formula won the presidential election,
Albistur sounded like one of the candidates to head the AFI
, the federal Intelligence Agency that replaced the SIDE.
But his wife was finally the one who came to the national administration
, as coordinator of the National Council for the Coordination of Social Policies, with the so-called national table against Hunger.
Alberto Fernández and Fabiola Yáñez with Tolosa Paz and Albistur, the day Argentina won the Copa América
During the management of his friend Alberto, Albistur made a documentary entitled "Vicentin: from a great company to a great scam", which premiered on two news channels -C5N and Crónica TV-, simultaneously, to defend the advance of the national government before that industrial conglomerate.
In addition, he defended the creation of the tax on large fortunes, which reached the prolific businessman.
"If one is not supportive in the face of a situation like the one the country and the world are experiencing ... I am disgusted by businessmen who do not want to pay the wealth tax," he said then on Radio Con Vos.
Today, "Pepe" is fully dedicated to his wife's campaign
, for which he put all his media management artillery into the fight to win electorally in the largest district of the country, such as the province of Buenos Aires.
Perhaps it is her litmus test as the mentor of Victoria Tolosa Paz
, who is not satisfied with that but has already announced that in 2023, she will seek to be mayor of La Plata, the city where the friend of the President of the Nation lives.
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