When the screen was updated, the figure was $100,002,949. In less than a day, Santiago Marathea broke all records with its solidarity collection to combat the fires that have already affected more than 10% of the territory of the province of currents.
He shared the news with more than 110,000 people through a live broadcast he made from his Instagram account, where he has more than 2,800,000 followers. How did politicians and celebrities react to the influencer’s solidarity crusade?
“@santumaratea1, I sincerely appreciate the solidarity campaign in favor of Corrientes, the difficult situation that the province is going through with the fires requires everyone’s help”, that was the message of thanks published by the governor of the affected province, Gustavo Valdeson his Twitter account.
A day earlier, he had posted: “Since #Corrientes needs more resources to overcome the Igneous Emergency it is experiencing, I requested the collaboration of the #UnitedStates through its ambassador to #Argentina, Marc Stanley.” This tweet had a particular response from the journalist Diego Brancatelli: “More sepoy is not achieved”.
From the Twitter account of La Libertad Avanza, a space led by Javier Mileialso echoed Santi Maratea’s collection and took the opportunity to criticize President Alberto Fernández: “Santiago Maratea raised 100 million pesos in less than 24 hours to help Corrientes. The same amount that Alberto Fernandez and his presidential entourage spent on their trip to Barbados to talk about how climate change affects the Caribbean island”.
Ricardo Lopez Murphynational deputy of Together for Change, said: “How incredible what @ santumaratea1 is doing! In just a few hours, millions of pesos have already been raised to help Corrientes. When we Argentines unite, led by valuable and honest people, wonderful things happen”.
Joseph Louis Espertfor its part, publicly acknowledged that it participated: “My deepest solidarity with the brothers from Corrientes for the tragedy they are experiencing with the fires. As a deputy, together with other colleagues, I have asked Minister Cabandié for an interpellation and in a personal capacity I have participated in the solidarity collection of Santiago Maratea”. louis petriwrote: “Santi Maratea also illuminates the solidarity of the Argentine people!”.
Strangely, while the collection was taking place, the Nation’s Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, Juan Cabandiereferred in a tweet to Elisa Carrió: “I spoke with @elisacarrio a few minutes ago where I told him that in #Corrientes we have 12 air assets deployed, more than 130 brigade members, 5 fire engines, vehicles, equipment, a communications truck and support mobiles,” referring to a publication of the former national deputy.
The solidarity action also received the support of several celebrities. Natalie Perezfor example, shared a video of Santiago Marathea in his Instagram stories next to the link to receive donations and wrote: “You’re all man. Thank you for everything you do.”
On his Twitter account, Paula Chavez public: “You are everything”. Luciana Salazar also referred to the influencer’s collection on the little bird’s social network: “Santi Maratea is the best example of how networks can be used to generate a positive impact. And by the way, it exposes the ineffectiveness of those who should be in charge.” Horace Cabakwas also expressed: “Santi Maratea collected in one night the cost of the trip to Barbados for the entourage for the environment.”
Another who also spoke on the subject was Nick. The creator of Gaturro published: “Santi Maratea in less than 24 hours raised 84 million pesos for Corrientes. That’s called credibility and suitability.” Yanina Latorre, on the other hand, wrote: “Albertico @alferdez, have you already thanked him? What did you guys do?
singer and actress Lali Esposito directly tweeted: “Santi Maratea” and the emoji of a heart. Pablo Lescano retweeted several messages from the influencer and Carmen Barbieri referred publicly: “I have to talk about this influencer who I think has a mandate. I believe that God enlightens you and this boy went on to help many people.”
The influencer caused a revolution. His name, “Santi Maratea”, was the most mentioned on Twitter in the last 48 hours, exceeding 200,000 tweets and the most searched on Google, while the word “Corrientes” adds more than 275,000 mentions. One piece of information: just one hour of his collection was enough to raise more than $5,000,000, which exceeded everything needed by the Corrientes Fire Management Consortium.
