Fernandez lunches with Bush and others.
22 February 2011
Fernandez lunches with Bush and others
The luncheon was held in Gustavo Cisneros's villa in Casa de Campo
LA ROMANA.- President Leonel Fernandez lunched yesterday with the former presidents George H. Bush, George W. Bush, Alvaro Uribe, and Martin Torrijos and the former Prime Minister of the Spanish Government, Jose Maria Aznar. The luncheon was held at the Quinta Serenisima in Casa de Campo, owned by businessman Gustavo Cisneros.
Although officially what was talked about was not released, is was known that it was a cordial meeting where the personages reviewed several events in which they had taken part and some issues related to world politics.
Since last weekend, the two Bush families, Torrijos, Aznar and the former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney have been at Casa de Campo where the meeting with President Fernandez took place under normal circumstances, with not of the "hurrying around" that might disturb the other guests at the hotel.
It was known that the former chiefs of state, although they met with President Fernandez, are enjoying a family vacation more than anything else. That is why there not been any official visit or future strategy related to this visit.
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http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=280821&l=1The people in the photo with George H. W. Bush are Gustavo Cisneros:
Gustavo A. Cisneros Rendiles (born 1945)<1> is a Venezuelan media mogul of Cuban descent. He is among the world's richest men according to Forbes magazine, which estimated his fortune at $10.7 billion in 2010 The New York Times calls Cisneros, "one of Latin America’s most powerful figures" and says he and his wife, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, have a reputation for being "a Latin American power couple in business and the global social scene."<2>
Background
Cisneros is the son of Diego Cisneros; Diego Cisneros was in business in Caracas from 1929 and received the Pepsi concession for Venezuela in 1940, before going on to gain the concession for private TV channel Venevisión in 1960.
The Cisneros family was the first-wealthiest in Latin America on the 2006 Forbes ranking.<3> He graduated from Suffield Academy in Connecticut in 1963<4> and from Babson College in Massachusetts in 1968.<5>
In addition to Venezuelan citizenship, Cisneros also holds Spanish and Dominican citizenship.<6>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Cisneros and Pepe Fanjul:
The Fanjul brothers -- Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul, José "Pepe" Fanjul, Alexander Fanjul, and Andres Fanjul — are owners of Fanjul Corp., a vast sugar and real estate conglomerate in the United States and Dominican Republic, comprising the subsidiaries Domino Sugar, Florida Crystals, C&H Sugar, Redpath Sugar, Tate & Lyle European Sugar as well as the airport and resorts surrounding La Romana in the Dominican Republic.
History
The Fanjul brothers' ancestry is Cuban and they are descendants of the Spaniard Andres Gomez-Mena who immigrated to Cuba in the 19th century and built up an empire of sugar mills and property by the time he died in 1910. In 1936, his descendant Lillian Gomez-Mena married Alfonso Fanjul, Sr, the heir of the New York-based sugar companies the Czarnikow Rionda Company and the Cuban Trading Company. The couple's holdings were then combined to create a large business of cane sugar mills, refineries, distilleries, and significant amounts of real estate. With Fidel Castro's 1959 Marxist Cuban Revolution, the family moved to Florida along with other wealthy, dispossessed Cuban families. In 1960, Alfonso Sr., the father of the current CEO of Fanjul Corp. Alfonso Jr., bought 4,000 acres (16 km2) of property near Lake Okeechobee along with some sugar mills from Louisiana and started over. Alfonso Sr. and his son Alfy Fanjul got the firm off its feet and Pepe, Alexander and Andres joined in the late 1960s and 1970s.<1> Pepe Fanjul Jr. joined the sugar firm in 2002.<2> As of 2008, the company owned 155,000 acres (630 km2) acres in Palm Beach County <3>.
Various business holdings and venturesThe Fanjul brothers were large shareholders and directors of Southeast Bank before its takeover and liquidation by the FDIC in 1991. In addition, they are the majority shareholders and directors of FAIC Securities, which was investigated by the S.E.C. for regulatory violations.<4>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fanjul_Brothers