Enrique Omar Suárez
Enrique Omar Suárez | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Argentina |
| Other names | Caballo (horse) |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, union leader, politician |
Enrique Omar Suárez is an Argentine union leader, businessman, and politician. He is the Secretary General of SOMU (Sindicato de Obreros Marítimos Unidos), the Argentinian union for longshoremen and other maritime workers. He is also the president of Mercante SA and director of Maruba SCA, the largest shipping company in Argentina.[1]
A longtime friend and ally of the nation’s ruling Kirchner family, Suárez has been described as an “ultra-Menemista” who became a “hyper-Kirchnerista.”[2] He has also been called a “Cristina-ista.”[3] One source identifies him as “President Cristina Kirchner’s closest and most powerful ally.”[4] He is accused by some sources as having been implicated in killings, shootings, narcotics trafficking, and various underworld activities.[5][6]
He is widely known by the nickname “Caballo” (horse).[7]
Relationship with the Kirchners
Suárez and leaders of three other unions agreed in 2006 “to unify their efforts to support and deepen the national recovery policy promoted by the government of President Néstor Kirchner.” Suárez himself stated that the four unions were “in full accordance with the national direction of economic and social policy of President Néstor Kirchner and in full service to the reconstruction of the Argentine maritime sector.”[8] Suárez said that “the unity of the major world trade unions” was “terrible news for the nostalgia of neoliberalism” and represented a success for the economic and social strategy of President Kirchner.[9]
Mayor Javier Iud of San Antonio said in 2007 that it was important to work closely with Suárez on local issues because Suárez is “a ‘soldier’ of Cristina” and an “unconditional ally of CGT as he was under Néstor Kirchner.”[10]
One source wrote in 2008 that Suárez was “now identified with Kirchner to the point that in the early months of the presidential campaign, he decorated the port area…with slogans reading ‘With him or with her, Kirchner president, SOMU driving. Omar Suárez.’”[11]
Suárez took part in a labor-union tribute to Néstor Kirchner on the first anniversary of his death.[12]
Suárez said in May 2011 that Argentina’s “historic” maritime presence around the world was a sign of "the remarkable recovery of Argentina at the hands of our President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner,” and was proof that “the Argentine people need four more years of Cristina.”[13]
Suárez stated in April 2012 that in the elections for head of the CGT, scheduled for 2013, he would vote for the Kirchner candidate, not for current CGT leader Hugo Moyano, from whom, it was reported, he had recently been maintaining a “certain distance.”[3]
Suárez stated in March 2014 that his goal as head of SOMU is “to recover a Néstor Kirchner Argentina that is a matrix of energy and development.”[14]
Suárez has been described as using his contacts with the Casa Rosada to obtain credit at the National Bank to purchase ships from China.[5]
References
- ^ "¿Quiénes Somos?". Maritima Maruba.
- ^ "Mal momento para Maruba | NUESTROMAR". nuestromar.org. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ^ a b "CGT: "Caballo" Suárez rompió con Moyano y ahora es ultra cristinista". La Politica Online. Apr 10, 2012.
- ^ "SELA - Prensa - Despliegue de Noticias". sela.org. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ^ a b Maturana, Roberto (Feb 5, 2011). "Soberanía naviera, corrupción institucional". Periodico Tribuna.
- ^ "Sospechado". mtmaritimos.com.ar. Retrieved 2014-07-13.
- ^ Rossi, Antonio (Jun 25, 2011). "Una marítima holandesa se va del país por presión del gremio". Clarin.
- ^ "Omar Suárez: "Lo que acordamos fue la unidad total del sector marítimos"". Nuestromar.org. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ MatrixWay. "OMAR SUAREZ: APOYAMOS FIRMEMENTE LA CONDUCCION DE HUGO MOYANO AL FRENTE DE LA CGT". La Auténtica Defensa. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ Administrator. "Iud y Gustavo Rubio se reunieron con Omar Suarez por la problemática pesquera". Informativohoy.com.ar. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "El conflicto del casino: el gremialismo antisindical". lavaca. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ "Homenaje a Néstor Kirchner en la CGT". Sutpa.org. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
- ^ [http://corrienteshoy.com/vernota.asp?id_noticia=79310#.U7R3k_mSyfM "Omar Su�rez: Los argentinos quieren cuatro años más de Cristina Kirchner"]. Corrienteshoy.com. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
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