It was the surprise of the afternoon.
The arrival of
Claudio Chiqui Tapia
at the Vendimia Solidaria event predicted a gift linked to the third soccer world cup.
"Who wants these shirts signed by Leo Messi and by all the members of the Qatar National Team," announced Carina Mazzocco, host of the event.
"Each shirt is going to sell for $4.5 million
," host Daniel Vila (Grupo América and Edenor) proposed, in an agreement in full TV broadcast, together with the new queen of the Vendimia Ana Laura Verde and Tapia.
The audience of businessmen and politicians responded above expectations: in 10 minutes, 7 shirts were sold for $31.5 million.
Thus, the collection of the event that is destined to charitable works exceeded 131 million pesos.
The first two buyers of the National Team jersey, according to Vila, were
Jorge Pablo Brito,
president of River and manager of Banco Macro, and
Orly Terranova,
Dakar Rally runner and media and construction businessman.
Zulemita Menem, Carolina Losada, Julio Cobos, Ulpiano Suarez (standing, mayor of the city of Mendoza), Martín Lousteau and his wife, actress Carla Petersen, at the 2023 Solidarity Harvest.
The
imposing
San Isidro ranch, surrounded by hills, with a vineyard 1,500 meters above sea level, and a lake, was once again the natural setting for a lunch that brought together 700 guests.
The property of the businessman Vila and his wife Pamela David was again this Sunday at noon,
the political showcase of Vendimia.
Between glasses of Malbec and Chardonnay from El Enemigo, and sparkling wines from Rosell Boher, the officials and candidates for president paraded.
The Minister of Economy
Sergio Massa and Malena Galmarini
(President of Argentine Water and Sanitation) were there, and sitting nearby - but without speaking - the Minister of the Interior
Eduardo Wado de Pedro
and the Minister of Social Development,
Victoria Tolosa Paz.
"On April 1 we are going to launch a new differential dollar
," Massa reiterated.
And he announced that it will cover "wine, tea, yerba mate", economies affected in recent months.
And with respect to the public debt and the next maturities, he said: "We want to clear the debt horizon so that we can rescue the huge ball of pesos that the country has in circulation as a result of having been without external credit and financing only with issuance entities of the financial and treasury system".
Gerardo Morales, Chiqui Tapia, Wado de Pedro, and the president of River Jorge Brito, among others, at the Solidarity Harvest 2023.
The Minister of Economy said that it will be a measure projected to 2024-2025 so that "nobody is afraid of seizing the Government and finding a bomb."
De Pedro, who claims to have a good relationship with the radical government of Mendoza, joined the reception table of the soccer leaders: With Tapia, Brito, Matías Patanián, and the former president of the millionaire club, Rodolfo D'Onofrio,
accompanied by his partner Zulemita Menem.
Later they joined the governor of Santiago Del Estero,
Gerardo Zamora
;
and the provisional president of the Senate,
Claudia Ledesma Abdala.
From the opposition, exchanging hugs with Governor
Rodolfo Suarez,
were the senator and pre-candidate for Buenos Aires head of government,
Martín Lousteau
, and his partner, the actress Carla Peterson;
and a few meters away,
Gerardo Morales,
governor of Jujuy and president of the Radical Civic Union.
From the UCR were Senators Carolina Losada and Luis Naidenoff;
the Deputy Chief of Staff Juan Manuel Olmos;
the national deputies Emilio Monzó and Julio Cobos;
and the governor of Mendoza, Rodolfo Suarez.
The senator and candidate for governor Alfredo Cornejo was missing.
More critical of the "rainbow dollar" announced by Massa, was Avanza Libertad deputy José Luis Espert
and his peer, Luis Rosales from Mendoza.
Espert said that inflation is not going to drop in 2023 and that the differentiated dollar policy of the Alberto Fernández government
is "a bomb that is going to explode on them or on the next government."
Daniel Vila praised the political diversity of the meeting: "This table is an example of coexistence, because consensus is built from coexistence and the country is built from consensus. I thank the politicians who are sharing this solidarity."
He took the opportunity to joke about coexistence in football and greeted the president of Gimnasia y Esgrima de Mendoza, Fernando Porretta.
"We are the two presidents of the classic rivals of Mendoza soccer," he said, Vila, who has just returned to the leadership of Argentine soccer, as president of Independiente Rivadavia.
The time of malambo arrived with the Picahueso group, a revelation at the 2020 Cosquín Folklore Festival, then the blessing of the priest Marcelo De Benedectis and the entrance of the image of the Virgen de la Carrodilla.
The Totora show was the closing of the political, business and soccer gathering with the purpose of raising funds for more than 50 educational, social and sports NGOs.