On Wednesday the 3rd, at 9:10 in the morning, Juan Grabois entered Peter Thiel’s mansion in Barrio Parque. Neither the guest nor the host knew it, but Sergio Piemonte, photographer for this editorial, was stationed in front of the home. The image he took, in which the leader is seen entering the technomagnate’s house with his hand outstretched, spread like wildfire in the red circle and was the topic that marked the political agenda. A week after that meeting, the big question still remains: what did Grabois and Thiel talk about?
Conclave. The leader remains radio silent. It is something that he had advanced in the last interview he gave, on the streaming channel “It comes”, on May 27. “June and part of July I will not be in the media, to represent correctly one has to be clear about the direction,” he had said.
Grabois stayed on that line when NOTICIAS tried to contact him to have his version of going one-on-one with one of the most powerful men on the planet, who suddenly finds himself living in Buenos Aires. However, days after the news broke out in the media and networks, a person from his closest environment contacted the magazine to give some clues: he said that the meeting was requested and sought by the techno-magnate, and that the entire conversation revolved around the first encyclical of Pope Leo The connection that Grabois had with the Vatican, when his mentor sat on the chair of Saint Peter, was what aroused Thiel’s curiosity. “Juan always believed that, when one has clear convictions about who he represents, he can and should meet with everyone. And always with an open face. That’s why they catch him in a photo that others don’t,” they said close to the leader, and assured that if it were up to him he would even meet with his declared nemesis, Marcos Galperin of Mercado Libre.
That self-imposed withdrawal of Grabois, in the context of the meeting with Thiel, did not convince everyone. “He started by voting for Massa, then asking for a front with Pichetto and now he is meeting with Peter Thiel. It could always be worse,” said Trotskyist Gabriel Solano.
Guillermo Moreno, true to his style, left a chicane: “I think it’s good that he went, we have to see if he taught him the Peronist doctrine.” From the other side of the rift, deputy Lilia Lemoine also threw her darts. “Deputies K meet with representatives of technology companies and scare them away, they do all the damage they can every time they can,” he said, in what is at least a striking reading of the meeting between the businessman and the picketer.
Grabois, for his part, clarified to those who asked him that when he resumes his media activity he will tell more details.
