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Eric Trump, son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, compared his father to Argentine President Mauricio Macri.
"I think (Trump) will win; he's winning in all the polls by more than three points," Eric Trump claimed in an interview for right-wing Uruguayan newspaper El País, adding that his father "is very similar to Mauricio Macri, in the sense that he is also a successful entrepreneur."
"Six months into his political career and he's having great success everywhere he goes. Besides being a great person, he would be an excellent president and administrator," said the son of the conservative U.S. candidate, quoted by the German news agency DPA.
Eric Trump, visiting Punta del Este (Uruguay), where the Trump Group is building a luxury condominium building, also asserted that should his father win "it would certainly benefit many countries, including Uruguay," and attributed the support for his father to the fact that "he is not a politically correct candidate."
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Besides both being xenophobic crony capitalists, Macri and Trump go way back:
Mauricio Macri himself isn't a "successful entrepreneur," as Eric Trump mistakenly states. That would be his father, Francesco Macri, who made his initial fortune in padded contracts during the Argentine construction boom in the '60s and '70s.
The Macris' relationship with Trump dates to the failed Lincoln West development in the Upper West Side of Manhattan (today known as Riverside South). The elder Macri reportedly made $100 million in improvements over the former Penn Central rail yard between 1979 and 1984 in order to obtain approval for Lincoln West.
Instead, in 1985 he sold the land and development rights to Trump at cost - leading to speculation that Trump used his connections to deny Macri the needed credits and permits to go forward, only to take over the project once the necessary prep work (including a new subway station, which Macri also paid for) had been completed.
Trump himself later declared bankruptcy and was unable to build his "Trump City;" Riverside South is now owned by a consortium led by the Carlyle Group. Nevertheless, Trump and the Macris have remained friends ever since. Thick as thieves, if you will.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Secret files reveal 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html
forest444
(5,902 posts)The adviser in question, Ecuadorian-born Jaime Durán Barba, is a known CIA psy-ops contractor. A kind of South American Karl Rove, if you will.
Durán Barba also advises others in Macri's far-right party, the PRO (Republican Proposal). Here's what the new Central Bank President - who's currently under indictment for his role in the fraudulent 2001 Megaswap that added $38 billion to Argentina's debt burden - had to say about the wily Ecuadorian:
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Thank you for the heads-up on Durán Barba. What a turd.
Karl's BFEE chums have long worked South America. I believe they think their redoubt will hold as the enivonment collapses in the Northern Hemisphere.
Paraguay? Why not!