The Diplomat
The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, highlighted this week to the president of CEAPI, Núria Vilanova, his Government’s commitment to combining private investment with public investment to generate “stability, sustainability and security” and, related to this, the importance of the fight against corruption to recover State institutions.
Vilanova carried out a work tour this week in Panama and Guatemala in which he met with institutions, businessmen and CEAPI partners with the fundamental objective of presenting the VII Ibero-American Congress for Presidents of Companies and Business Families, which will be held from the 17th to the 19th. June in Cartagena de Indias and will bring together nearly 500 participants.
During a meeting with Arévalo and several of his ministers, in which Vilanova was accompanied by businessmen and Ibero-American partners, the president of Guatemala emphasized the need to guide development and generate conditions for productive actors to advance, as reported by CEAPI. in a press release.
For this reason, the Guatemalan president continued, “mechanisms must be created to serve investors, such as the technological innovation fund already created.” Likewise, and looking to the future, he highlighted his Government’s commitment to private investment that, together with public investment, “generates stability, sustainability and security” and, in this sense, he referred to the fight against corruption as a necessary instrument. to recover the institutions of the State. “because only then will there be health and education, because democracy must give development results.”
For his part, Vilanova recalled that, during his recent visit to Spain, Arévalo held a meeting with CEAPI partners in which he promised to start a dialogue with the business world. The president agreed with the Guatemalan president on the importance of business investment for the development of the territories and, specifically, she highlighted the commitment to Guatemala.
Likewise, Vilanova assured that the CEAPI Congress will put Ibero-America at the center of the world’s interest at a time when geoeconomics is looking for new markets, “because we believe that it is the time for Ibero-America, the time to grow in productivity.”
Panama
Núria Vilanova also presented the CEAPI Congress in Panama, where she met with the Spanish ambassador in this country, Guzmán Palacios, to strengthen mutual collaboration. Likewise, he held meetings with businessmen and partners from Ibero-America, such as Stanley Motta, to whom he explained the importance of participating in the meeting, which will bring together institutions from Ibero-America, relevant figures from the business world and the fields of sustainability, security and technology and representatives of Ibero-American society and Colombian society in particular.
