Yo, el pior de todos: La otra Ciccone: Madonna

Al igual que la empresa conocida como Ciccone Calcográfica, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone nació en la década del '50.

Y al igual que C.C., Madonna, la de carne y hueso, también es una máquina de hacer dinero.

Madonna ha recibido elogios como un modelo a seguir por las mujeres empresarias en su industria, «para lograr el tipo de control financiero por el que las mujeres han luchado durante mucho tiempo dentro de la industria y generando más de 1,2 mil millones de dólares en ventas durante la primera década de su carrera».³²¹ Después de su creación, Maverick Records se convirtió en un gran éxito comercial de sus esfuerzos, que fue inusual en ese momento para un sello discográfico creado por un artista.³²² El periodista Robert Sandall dijo que mientras entrevistaba a Madonna, estaba claro que ser un «gran ícono cultural» era más importante para ella que la música pop, una carrera que describió como «un accidente». También vio un contraste entre su personalidad pública muy sexual y su actitud reservada y «paranoica» hacia sus propias finanzas; despidió a su propio hermano cuando se le acusó de cobrarle de más por el acondicionamiento de su mansión en Londres.³²³

El profesor Colin Barrow de la Cranfield School of Management describió a Madonna como «la empresaria más inteligente de Estados Unidos... que ha logrado conquistar los puestos más altos de su industria y permanecer allí por reinventarse constantemente». También resaltó la «planificación, disciplina personal y constante atención a los detalles» como modelos para todos los aspirantes a ser empresarios.³²⁴ Los académicos de la London Business School la llamaron una «empresaria dinámica»; identificaron su visión de éxito, su comprensión de la industria de la música, su capacidad para reconocer sus propios límites de rendimiento, su disposición a trabajar duro y su habilidad para adaptarse como la clave de su éxito comercial.³²⁵

Morton comentó que «Madonna es oportunista, manipuladora y despiadada, alguien que no se detendrá hasta obtener lo que quiere, y eso es algo que puedes ganar a costa de perder a las personas más cercanas a ti. Pero eso claramente no le importa».³²⁶ Taraborrelli consideró que esta crueldad fue visible durante el rodaje del comercial de Pepsi en 1989. «El hecho de que no quisiera sostener una lata de Pepsi en el comercial, fue la pista que los ejecutivos de Pepsi necesitaban para saber que Madonna la estrella del pop y Madonna la empresaria no iban a ser dirigidas por otra persona, ella haría todo a su manera, la única manera».³²⁷ Por el contrario, el reportero Michael McWilliams, comentó: «las quejas sobre Madonna –que es fría, codiciosa y sin talento– ocultan el fanatismo y la esencia de su arte, que es uno de los más cálidos, de los más humanos, de los más profundamente satisfactorios en toda la cultura pop».328

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Boudougate is a political scandal in Argentina involving Vice President Amado Boudou and the printing house Ciccone Calcográfica.^[1]

The AFIP, the revenue service of Argentina, requested Ciccone's bankruptcy in July 2010;^[2] but the AFIP reversed itself on September 24, 2010, and rescinded the bankruptcy request.^[2] A shell corporation named "The Old Fund", represented by Alejandro Vandenbroele, gave 2.3 million pesos to Ciccone; Vandenbroele became president of the organization as a result.^[2] Boudou, who was Minister of Economy at the time, instructed the AFIP to give Ciccone an exceptional moratorium to refinance debts. Boudou denied having any relationship with Vandenbroele, or even knowing about him, but it was confirmed later that Vandenbroele paid the rent and the cable television bill for an apartment belonging to Boudou.^[2]

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The case began to be investigated when Laura Muñoz, Vandenbroele's ex-wife, accused him of being a mere straw owner of Ciccone and claimed that the real owner was Amado Boudou. She requested protection, fearing attacks from her former husband.^[3] However, her testimony had no judicial value, because of her spousal relation with Vandenbroele and her limited knowledge of his ongoing activities.^[4] Boudou denied having any relation with Vandenbroele or even knowing about him and said he believed the whole controversy to be staged by the newsdaily Clarín to harm the government.^[5]

In addition, he accused Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo and a competing printing house, Boldt, of leaking the information about his relationship with Ciccone.^[6] Randazzo denied any relation with Boldt.^[7]

The relationship between Boudou and Vandenbroele was confirmed in April 2012, when the judicial investigation checked an apartment belonging to Boudou and discovered that Vandenbroele had paid the rent and the television cable service.^[1] It is suspected that Vandenbroele may have been living there during that time, and not Fabián Carosso Donatiello, as had been thought. Donatiello was a friend of Vandenbroele, had moved to Spain many years before, had no ongoing economic activity in Argentina, and his most recent registered entry to the country had been in July 2011.^[8] Boudou accused Judge Daniel Rafecas of being part of a "mafia" with the Clarín media group,^[9] something denied by Rafecas.^[10]

Following an August 2013 judicial ruling ordering prosecutors to provide evidence of wrongdoing, and their subsequent failure to do so, on September 11 a Federal Court granted a motion by Boudou's attorneys that would allow them to file for a dismissal of charges.^[11]

Despite the political scandal, the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) commissioned Ciccone in March 2012 to print currency notes on its behalf.^[12] Ciccone will print 120 million new Argentine peso banknotes. The proposal was initially resisted in the BCRA as Ciccone's financial instability would not allow it to meet the standards required to work with the state: the company had not made all of its required tax payments, and it had faced a bankruptcy a short time before.^[13] Central Bank President Mercedes Marcó del Pont blocked the formal writing of any complaints, however, and the deal was approved.^[13] The first banknotes from Ciccone were printed on May 2012.^[14]

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The opposition attempted to impeach Boudou but failed to do so, as both chambers of the Congress have a Kirchnerist majority and Boudou is a Kirchnerist.^[1] The constitution requires two-thirds of the Chamber of Deputies to vote for initiating an impeachment process of the vice president,^[15] as well as two-thirds of the Senate to convict him as guilty.^[16] Opposition politicians Margarita Stolbizer and Eduardo Amadeo believed that Boudou should resign or explain what had happened.^[1]
As President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will not be able to run for a third term in 2015, Boudou had considered running for office even Kirchner won in the 2011 presidential election.^[17] As of April 2012, his public support had decreased by over 11 percentage points since the election, from 43.2% to 31.8%, while his negative image had increased nearly 19 percentage points, from 34.9% to 53.6% and only 15.4% think that he is innocent.^[18] Despite this, he has not given up his plan to run.^[19]

miércoles, 4 de junio de 2014

La otra Ciccone: Madonna

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