Former president Mauricio Macri presented his new book titled Franco, where he reconstructs the life of his father, Franco Macri, and describes the complex relationship between the two. According to Macri, Franco was “my father, my most influential teacher and also my greatest antagonist.”
In the work, Macri narrates the origin of his father as an Italian immigrant who, with enormous effort, forged a path in Argentina until he became a prominent businessman. But it also shows a story of tensions, expectations and internal confrontations. “I wrote it from the admiration and love that a son can feel for someone who gave him everything, but also as an exercise in emotional memory to try to understand that colossal man who was right and wrong like no other,” said the author when presenting the volume.
The book’s launch revealed more than a business biography: it exposed a troubled personal bond that Macri now puts into words. And in doing so, he revisits both family history and that of a country. The rise of the Macri in Argentina, their influence on the economy and their place on the political scene are part of the text.
With Franco, Mauricio Macri not only tells the life of his father, but also tries to explain his own path: how he resisted the corporate figure of the father, how he redefined his role and, finally, how he ended up representing a different era. The book, more than a personal accounting, appears as an open letter from someone who freed himself from the model that preceded him to build his own.
