Mauricio Macri and his “brother of life” Nicholas Caputo they are distanced They no longer have the same type of relationship that placed them in the Presidency of the Nation, much less the one that led them to do tremendous business since the 1980s.
This story was unleashed in the last months of 2021, but it has its origin at the beginning of the management of macri, back in December 2015. Having just come to power, the Cambiemos government had one of Macri’s best friends among its makers: Nicholas Martin Caputo, “Nicky”, who had a small personal dream: to be an advisor to a president and live the experience of being part of relevant moments in history. He wanted to be there, behind the scenes of every decision. But his personal image played a trick on him.
After several months of participating in meetings of the “red circle”, one day, the members of that small table, among whom were the chief of staff Mark Penathe head of the Buenos Aires Government Horacio Rodriguez Larreta, and the Ecuadorian adviser Jaime Duran Beardamong others, decided that Caputo was counterproductive for the image of macri and it was necessary to run.
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But the one who had to tell him had to be his friend, so Macri summoned him and asked him to step aside. Nicky CaputoReluctantly, he agreed and walked away.
The claims that were revived in 2021 have to do with those episodes. Three friends of the former president confirmed to NOTICIAS that the relationship between Macri and Caputo He wasn’t going through the best of times. Caputo usually reproaches the former president that he ran as he was asked and Macri retorts that during his management obtained benefits that were previously forbidden to them.
There is the possibility of distributing dividends or update the energy rate, than when it was behind when it came to power. Caputo’s response, they say in the environment of both, is that those They were not personal advantages, but benefited many companies.
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One of the aspects in which Caputo did better than Macri It is in the legal field. Until now, the businessman had no major complications, especially in the file known as Cause Indaloin which he was mentioned as one of those who endorsed the advance on the companies of Cristobal Lopez and Fabian De Sousa.
Caputo was pointed out in an email he sent Orly Newfoundland to De Sousa in which he was cited as one of those who “helped” in the process of selling the Indalo Group. Caputo, who apparently does not trust the Justice too much, put first before the end of the Government and began personal negotiations to avoid bad times in the future.
First he tried to find a judicial operator who would provide him with a good relationship with different judges and prosecutors and then he hired the lawyer Mariano Fragueiro Friaswho has good ancestry in the courts of Comodoro Py. De Sousa usually tells his acquaintances that Caputo those two strategies were not enoughso he asked for a meeting with the partner of Christopher Lopez to clarify that he had nothing to do with the judicial pressure they had during Macri’s four years. Apparently that had helped.
During media coverage of C5N about the case, Caputo’s name is not mentioneddespite having been, from the shadows, one of the main creators of Cambiemos.
When they ask Caputo for his distancing from Macri, he minimizes it and hides behind the pandemic. The businessman spent much of 2020 in the United States and Macri had several trips abroad. Perhaps the cooling of the relationship has to do with the particular look of each one on the future of the PRO and the rise of other leaders. Caputo would have already chosen Rodríguez Larreta. For Macri, that is a dagger in the back.
by RN
