In the last week there was a media stir with the launch of the Faro Foundation, the libertarian think tank that has the right-wing thinker among its leading figures. Agustín Laje. But who is, in truth, behind the creation of this group is the presidential advisor Santiago Caputowho, according to reports, would have his older brother Francisco within this structure, with the crucial task of taking care of, among other things, the collection. At its inaugural dinner, the Faro Foundation reportedly charged tickets of up to 20 thousand dollars per table.
Francisco Caputo He is just a year older than Santiago and developed a vocation for coaching people in their personal development. On his Instagram he describes his talks in ontological coaching sessions as developments of “Super Humans”, where concepts such as “human potential”, “consciousness”, “transformation” and “trainings” are promoted.
In a 2019 interview with a colleague of his named Martin Daulerioreflected on a topic that he talks about all the time in his conversations with his students: money. “We always say in training that there is nothing that can be bought with money that cannot be bought with confidence,” he explained and added: “It is not, obviously, that we are going to buy a car and take confidence out of our pockets. It’s not about that, but about really asking ourselves why we don’t have money. And many times it is because we lack confidence in ourselves. The confident person has the capacity, the competence to create money.”
Francisco is the oldest of all, followed by Santiago, Ezequiel and the youngest, Malena. All children of the notary Claudio Caputoresidents of the Belgrano neighborhood and students of the Manuel Belgrano School. Although Francisco Caputo, like his brother, usually avoids public exposure and there is almost no documentation linking him to the foundation, his role is key in this new think tank. The person who left it exposed was Alberto Benegas Lynch Jr. on the social network X (formerly Twitter) when celebrating the launch of the foundation.
“Thank you @fundfaro, with great pleasure I chair the International Academic Council where I am accompanied by colleagues/friends from different countries in order to add intellectual support to the extraordinary goals of the President and I appreciate the very effective coordination of Fran Caputo,” he wrote. When Santiago Caputo saw the tweet, he only managed to resign himself, snort and mutter under his breath a clear: “It can’t be.” One of the untouchables of Argentine liberalism had belled the cat.
The domain fundafaro.org.ar is registered in Mi Argentina under the legal name Fundación Valorar, which has its tax address at Reconquista 40, less than half a block from the Plaza de Mayo. YesAntiago Caputo usually uses the foundation’s facilities as his own. For example, when he had to meet secretly with Mauricio Macri, about two months ago, the place chosen was that office.
Agustín Lajethe main representative of the foundation, said in an interview with journalist Eduardo Feinmann that the purpose of the think tank was to “fight the cultural battle, to train future technical and political cadres, future cultural references and business leaders.” He also added that it was “autonomous”, that it was not part of the organic structure of La Libertad Avanza nor could it be called Milei’s foundation.
Francisco Caputo, the coordinator of this autonomous foundationusually visits his brother at the Casa Rosada several days a week and helps him with all the issues that the presidential advisor needs to delegate to someone he trusts. In the last year he put aside his vocation as a personal coach to devote himself to two family issues that need his support: reorganizing his father’s office and accompanying his brother Santiago.
Regarding employment records, and beyond his work in the Government, Francisco shares the same employer with his brother on paper: Lucas Costa, a SME businessman, a childhood friend of the Caputo family and a neighbor of the country Martindale. Costa has two companies, Zefico SAin which he employs Santiago Caputo, and Camalu SAin which Francisco is employed. These two companies would be in charge of managing the family assets of the Caputo family. Tangled. In short, in political and money matters, Santiago and Francisco are the same.
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