Corporate concern: “We have never faced a crisis like this”

Argentina has no alternative but to rebuild itself from scratch. We have never faced a crisis like this. ” was one of the definitions given by Gonzalo Tanoira, president of ACDE, at the end of the 25th annual meeting of the company organization. The message expresses the concern of business leaders about political, economic and social aspects and the urgency to make changes.

Tanoira called urgently “The path that frees us from so much pain and allow us to bring Argentina out of the deterioration of the decades in which we are submerged ”.

The vice president of the food company San Miguel referred to changing economic conditions in a post-pandemic and war world in Europe, but warned: “In Argentina, we see these problems as in a magnified mirror: if inflation rises in the world, in Argentina it grows in a spiral; if in the world the tax burden on businesses intensifies, in Argentina it is already blocking production capacity “

“And consequently, if the reduction of poverty in the world stagnates, in Argentina the misery is enormous”, Added the entrepreneur. “We all want to reduce poverty, improve education, health and safety, this is not discussed. Where there are disagreements is how to achieve it, what is the recipe,” he added.

In this line, he presented a document signed by the more than 450 businessmen who attended the two-day event at the Sheraton Hotel in which they stated: “Respect for property and private initiative, to generate decent work that includes all Argentines”. In addition to a “stable currency, it can be the peso or another, which allows the planning of investments and the development of production projects “.

Top management also agreed on the need for “independent and fair institutions that resolve themselves without pressure, in accordance with the law”; “Educating to work” and “A broad and generous mutual forgiveness, which allows us to consolidate coexistence in diversity, ban discussions on the past and open a future of community and freedom”.

“Experience in other parts of the world could give us the key to continuing. We know that successful companies are built by combining a share of cooperation and a share of competition between their members. We must lose the fear of both words,” he said. called Tanoira.