Nicolás “Nicky” Caputo first met Elisa “Lilita” Carrió in 2015. That Sunday, November 22, when Mauricio Macri was elected president. In the VIP of the Cambiemos bunker in Costa Salguero, “Lilita” approached “Nicky” to tell him a phrase that still resonates in the head of “Macri’s other self”.
Lilita Carrio: It depends on you and me that Mauricio continues on the path of success.
“Nicky” Caputo: Mauricio has been coming down that path for a long time.
Carrio: I just tell you…
What was Carrió referring to? The President’s best friend took it as a request to refrain from doing business that could complicate the image of the new government. The comment of Carrió went so deep in “Nicky” that the next day, at a lunch with Macri in the Los Abrojos villa -the President’s refuge when he is not in Olivos-, Caputo told his friend that he was coming here. “I run. I do not want to be your Lázaro Báez ”, was his phrase, say those who know the businessman.
In 2007, “Lilita” Carrio told NEWS that Caputo was part of a pact between Macri and the Kirchners to get out of the presidential election and compete in the City. At that time Carrió said that Caputo and Alberto Fernandez They were the interlocutors between Nestor Kirchner and Macri. Caputo he always denied it. Today with Carrió As an ally of Macri, she no longer mentions “Nicki” in public as an operator of Mauricio. But, privately, she does warn him not to get the boss in trouble.
No one is so suspicious Caputo as Carrió. “Sell your companies and dedicate yourself to something else”, the national deputy and co-founder of Cambiemos publicly asked him in a confrontation that has lasted many years and has no solution in sight. The only response from the businessman and the Government to the insistent friendly fire is one: silence. With the constant encounters with her, Macri tries to tame her, although she knows that Carrió can shoot at any moment.
In her years of anger with the PRO, Gabriela Michetti was also very critical of Caputo. In fact, as NEWS learned, she was the one who gave Carrió the most letter for his successive complaints against the businessman. In any case, “Nicky” proved not to be spiteful: When Macri asked his close friend for advice to decide who should be his vice president, he did not hesitate: “Michetti is the best candidate, Mauricio.” The passage of time finds this conflictive trio in the same space. As in a family, they are suspicious, but they make an effort to live together.
by RN
