Corrientes – While the country remains attentive to economic debates and the political pulse at home, Corrientes today has become a center of liberal thought with a new edition of the Regional Economics Conference, organized by the Regional Economic Council. Freedom Club Foundation. The meeting, which is held on the outskirts of the capital, brings together more than forty speakers from various countries and concludes with the President’s Conference. Javier Mileywho will speak at 7 p.m. On “Challenges of Economic Growth”.
The conference was officially opened with a speech by the club president and friend of the president. Alberto Medina Mendezwho gave an institutional welcome that validated the Forum’s profile: a space to discuss reforms, federalism and economic freedoms from the experience and perspective of a regional civil association.
During the morning, initial sessions provided regional reading with speakers from Venezuela and Paraguay and political and business leaders from across Argentina.
In the afternoon, the program includes two video conferences from the United States: economist Sebastian Galliani, who prepared a presentation on “Challenges of Economic Growth” and Professor Maria Eugenia Muniagoria, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who did the same to analyze “the importance of statistics and data”.
Later, the “Three Pillars Economic Programme” committee, led by Federico Foriaci (BCRA) and Felipe Nunez (BICE), is one of the highlights of the day: inflation, the exchange rate and financing expectations will be discussed there.
The political conclusion of the event is dedicated to Millie, who returns to Corrientes after his visit in February 2024, where he participated in the anniversary of the institution to which he pays with his presence a kind of compensation for the years in which the club called him to fight the cultural battle, when that concept did not have the symbolic or effective weight that it has today.
This presence, reminiscent of the tone of gratitude towards the space that accompanied him before his arrival at Casa Rosada, marked the beginning of a smooth relationship with the local leadership of the entity, which slowly began to cross the ideological line to also enter, with some of its men, into the political arena. In fact, one of its directors, Ricardo Leconte, was elected regional deputy: almost the only liberal success in the regional elections in August, when Juan Pablo Valdés was elected governor, relegating the candidate of Karina Miley and Martin Menem to a faded fourth place: national representative Lisandro Almirón.
This time the president returns to the same scenario with the legitimacy of the position, with the victory in the October legislative elections (which were enough in Corrientes to consecrate Virginia Gallardo as national deputy), and with the expectation of leaving an economic message that will also be read in a political key.
As businessmen, officials and leaders from across the region stroll the halls of the Andean region, the congress cements itself as one of the premier forums for Argentine liberalism. What happens on stage is only part of the scenario: in informal and parallel meetings, support is negotiated, communications are made, and resistance to federalism is tested in real time.
Corrientes has once again become, if only for a day, an area where ideas and politics are closely measured.
Miley will arrive in the county around 6:30 p.m. To conclude the day with a speech that seeks to link the saga of freedom to the reality of growth.
This time he will not be received at the airport by Governor Gustavo Valdes, who is traveling to India, where he plans to draw up a 10-day agenda that will include meetings with businessmen, government authorities and multilateral trade and investment forums.
The official delegation will be received by the responsible Deputy Governor, Pedro Braillard Bocard, who participated this morning in the opening ceremony of the conference, accompanied by the Mayor of the capital, Eduardo Tassano.
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