Cristóbal López and Fabián de Sousa They have something that is not taught: smell for business and war. When they were imprisoned, three people handled the Indalo group: Ignacio Vivas, Julián Leunda and Carlos Infante. Vivas officiated from CEO, leunda of institutional relations and Infante managed the media. The three promised a place at the Shareholders’ table as thanks. But not everyone accepted: Infante, with 75 years and desire to step on the mainland, charged compensation and left without looking back. Vivas (40) and Leunda (34) decided to stay. But the promise of becoming shareholders took a lot.
The patience of future shareholders is over and what began as a good gesture ended in a silent coup: Leunda and alive, knowing the arts of Sousa, tried a bold movement that had already seen it in the past: They ordered the managers to even occur to them to attend the phone to López. When the owner learned, he enraged and launched a phrase that anticipated the war: “These kids forgot who the owner is.”
López’s reaction was not improvised. I was already chewing anger And I was with the blood in the eye for a suspicion of Leunda infidelity. Last year, this magazine told how López tried to keep an oil area that YPF sold in Río Negro. The curious thing about that episode was that López competed in two societies, on the one hand with his friend of Comodoro Rivadavia, Juan Ignacio González Pedroso, and on the other with De Sousa. Leunda was with Sousa and the note fell like a bucket of cold water inside.
It was learned that López had tried to set foot in Venezuela, and the ambassador then in that country, Oscar Laborde, shared a photo in X in which he was next to the businessman and Delcy Rodríguez, the vice president of Nicolás Maduro. The photo had a slight viralization in the red circle and arrived at De Sousa sent by Daniel Hadad and the message: “Your partner is always on the wrong side.” So far, López had no major problems. The anger arose when Clarín replied the news. For López, Leunda’s friendship with Ricardo Roa, Clarín’s second, was what motorized that the note has had an impact. The business fell and López’s anger was choking.
The entrepreneur also made noise that his partner of Sousa rebuild the relationship with Mauricio Macri. Because for Cristóbal, Macri is synonymous with jail: during his government, López and Sousa slept in a cell. In addition, Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón, Orlando “Orly” Terranova and Nicolás “Nicky” Caputo adds to that list, who took advantage of that stay in the Marcos Paz prison to want to stay with the whole group. De Sousa had a coffee with Macri in Villa La Angostura and another in his offices on Costa Rica Street. López liked nothing, but Fabian justified him by saying that he does not hold a grudge, because he feels that he does not allow him to look forward. Moreover, in his WhatsApp photo he has the phrase: “Your future needs you, your past does not.” Lopez is the opposite. The opportunity to charge the time that could not happen with their children and even the fear they had to go imprisoning too is still patient.
One of the reasons why López took control of C5N is because he did not fall in grace that in his channel they gave air to a Macri speech in the Silvia Lospenato campaign. Anything that smells like Macri is an insult to Cristóbal.
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On Friday 23, the tension burst. Twenty managers of the Indalo Group were summoned for a surprise meeting with López and Sousa. The place: Puerto Madero’s office that until recently used and alive and the one that can no longer enter. The atmosphere was loaded. López with frown, from Sousa trying to calm the waters. When everyone sat down, López cut the ice with a dry gesture: “Well, Fabian, starts you that this is your people.” De Sousa talked about thanks, of the hard years in jail, of loyalty. He tried to give Cristóbal’s word, but López ordered him: “I continued, I continued.” And Sousa released the bomb: “Cristóbal will take control of the holding company and the responsibilities will be reassignedThus, López took, for the first time since he bought it, the rudder of the C5N and Radio 10 media. In that reorganization will also control the construction company, the oil services and the insurer. Sousa will handle the properties, the oil and gas business, and Alpat, the Sodium Potassium Plant in Río Negro. It was a surgical division that ended the internal.
To round the meeting, López released a phrase that paralyzed them all: “The one who attends the phone to Leunda or Vivas will have a personal problem with me”
With that threat, he closed the general encounter, made them go out and was calling them one by one for a hand hand.
Meanwhile, Leunda and Vivas were, for now, outside the Shareholders table. De Sousa promised them that they will continue working with him and that, at some point, they can have their part. It will be a personal challenge to unlock this because, in López’s head, the door closed.
The new era of the Indalo group began with a door. And with Cristóbal in command. Because, as he said, “these kids forgot who the owner is.” And no one is encouraged to discuss it.
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