They sent 256 shovels to Congress: who is the eccentric businessman behind the move

Gate of the National Congress.

The overcast sky, the rain falls fine.

People passing by, some tourist, on a Thursday in February like any other.

.

Exactly 256 black shovels, with a natural colored wooden handle.

One for each deputy, or almost.

And a claim that at this point is already redundant:

The move surprised passersby coming and going from work this Thursday afternoon.

Some even stopped curious.

There were daredevils who even tried their hand at tools.

On the other side of the closed bars,

, with the Frente de Todos y Juntos por el Cambio -parejitos- getting sparks in a zero-sum game.

"

36 laws approved. 256 salaries of more than half a million pesos. A Congress full of lazy people and a country full of hunger. I give them a shovel

stated

that a couple of flyers delivered.

There

so that everything was properly recorded.

They sent 256 shovels to Congress: who is the eccentric businessman behind the move.

Behind the campaign was an

.

He claims to be an entrepreneur and educator.

Above all, successful.

"

. An Argentine who triumphs by merit,

," read the signature on the flyer, without room for modesty.

Who is the businessman who sent shovels to Congress

Scene 2.

Neutral, blank background.

Tattooed

with a sleeve, red beard well trimmed and polished.

All

 Looking straight ahead and a cap:

"Are you tired of working all day to

? Me too, that's why today we have a gift for Argentines who do less and earn more. GRAB THE SHOVEL and lower taxes or go home, "he wrote on his Instagram account the author of the

.

Stendel (27, originally from Caballito) is the person behind the

.

, where he has lived for years, this self-built 

.

"The ironic thing is that by buying the blades I also paid taxes and I continue to keep bums", he lamented in a postscript.

He replicated the mixture of

in the video with which he reaffirmed, with his own voice, what he had typed with his fingers.

Gesticulating and with bombastic hand movements, he tells the camera: "If we get rid of

I assure you that with effort and work there is a future, brother."

In his Twitter profile, with the

, he also

.

"Do you know what a RAT does? It eats and grabs what it can without measuring the damage caused. If my company is negative, I assure you that I stay up all night until I get it out. Let's see if they make the difference between going to work and GO TO WORK!" he said.

From his militant Trumpism comes

: "Make Argentina Great Again".

He now lives between Houston and Miami, where he promotes his New Tycoon University.

But he was born in Buenos Aires and then, at the age of 17 (after finishing secondary school at ORT), he passed through Israel.

There he forged the keys to his success.

They sent 256 shovels to Congress: who is the eccentric businessman behind the move.

"For a long time I focused on studying Hebrew because I needed to learn vocabulary. My life was to study and prepare myself physically and mentally, essential requirements to face challenges," he told Clarín at the end of 2021, with his career on the rise.

It is that the challenge will not be easy: he was one of the 5,000 registered to join Duvdevan, the

.

"I prepared myself, my life for months consisted of reading at night, and then getting up at 5 in the morning to train and be able to face the very tough tests of resistance," said Stendel, a cultivator of himself.

Sports cars, dollars and the Argentine flag: the profile of Mauro Stendel.

The idyllic story had its meritorious ending: he was among the 25 selected and carried out alleged secret missions in places that -requirement of the trade- remain reserved in some corner of his memory.

When hard training eroded his knees and the distance hurt his heart, he

.

With just 500 dollars he headed for the United States of America.

He was made from below: an abandoned house in Brooklyn with barely an inflatable mattress, showers in the gym, whole nights in a car with no heat.

Meanwhile, he was building his parallel life.

Projects, studies of the real estate market, contacts forged in Duvdevan, an Amazon store,

, a leg in the health business.

All like rungs of a ladder pointing upwards.

And more and more fired in self-managed networks.

Cars, jet set and a promise in the name of Javier Milei

Stendel arrived.

"He is the owner of three companies that bill millions of dollars per year",

in one of his web pages.

Mansion in Texas, apartment in Miami.

He travels with cars from his select collection of sports cars, which links him to a hot media figure of today:

, the 61-year-old Big Brother participant who lived in Miami, sold used cars and wears the bandana with the bars and the stars.

promotes in its networks

.

"The first online university with

is the description of the venture.

Through lectures by Mauro Stendel, Nico Occhiato (CEO of online radio Luzu), Marcos Chino Maidana and again Mauro Stendel, he turns online students into "a

of the moment".

The recipe is not having to "memorize useless theory for years or suffer from the economic crisis or unemployment."

In exchange for "$29.99 USD" he ambitiously promises: "You will learn only what you need

."

Mauro Stendel, the Argentine millionaire who donates 1 million pesos for his birthday.

To the classroom he brought the extolled teachings of the Middle East, which he had gathered in "3 Phases to Instant Success: The Israeli Intelligence Method."

The presentation of the 134-page book was attended by

Jr.

Money and luxury are his signs in the networks, where he is very active despite ranting against

.

He usually raffles amounts of green tickets, like the one he did on January 18: "8 years ago Cristina killed Nisman (

) one day before she showed how she covered up for the Iranians. In her honor I am going to donate 2,500 USD. To the retwt with the most likes explaining his cause of solidarity with the hashtags #mauritosolidario #cristinamatoanisman".

There is also a place for donations.

A few weeks ago

"for charity", with its corresponding video.

He also sent $90,000 to the family of a young woman who needed surgery for dysplasia and even sent money to a Malvinas veteran.

Stendel fits the definition of

A month and a half ago he wrote: "The anthem performed by L-GANTE, lgtbq flags waving behind instead of the Argentine flag, I only think of how San Martin, Belgrano, Rosas and Sergeant Cabral must be

In another message, he tried to define Peronism and spoke of

"Being a Peronist is like the kid who deserves bullying at school but manages to distract the crowd by doing and promoting bullying to another. Everyone has a dirty ass, pointing fingers at others while stealing the entire country," he said.

Restless, this Thursday he returned to show off his eccentricity with

That one that is missing is for one that, for Stendel, makes the difference: "Ah, stop, stop. I know there are 257. But I didn't send a shovel to Javier Milei. Because

is a full-time job."

With networks but without filters.

On the

bets his hopes.

He already promised it last year: "When Milei is president, I'm not only going back to Argentina, I'm also going to finance the

that will encourage the people who produce, generate and push society to want to come back with me to raise returned (

) a country devastated by Kirchnerism".

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