The journalists invited by the Casa de Nariño to accompany the President on his visit to Stockholm had special interest in what would come next: The peace summit for Ukraine in Lucerne, Switzerland where 60 heads of state were present alongside the President Vladimir Zelensky, a participation that the President canceled at the last minute and ordered the return to Colombia from Sweden. That meeting resulted in a declaration signed by 80 countries and 13 abstained.
There were four representatives of the private sector who accepted the invitation transmitted by presidential advisor Juan Fernández, the person in charge of the government’s relationship with them. Gabriel Gilinski, partner of the Giliski Group and member of the board of directors of Nutresa, and Joaquín Losada, the CEO of Fanalca, the company founded by Jorge Herrera Barona and Joaquin Losada Salcedo in the late 1950s and with them Juan Carlos Mira, were in Stockholm.
Mira was a senior advisor for the regions in the government of Juan Manuel Santos, then he became president of Asocaña, where he interacted with the Ardila family, owner of the Incauca, Providencia sugar mills and partners in Risaralda, who later appointed him corporate president of the Ardila Organization. . On the side of the Antioquia Business Group, the participant in the presidential tour was the lawyer Rafael Olivella, who from the corporate vice presidency of Cementos Argos moved to the same position in the Argos Group chaired by Jorge Mario Velásquez since 2016 and is celebrating 90 years of existence. .
Although the private agenda of the businessmen is not known, the Swedish ambassador in Colombia Helena Storm highlighted her visit to the Swedish multinational Ericcson, with more than a century and a half of existence, dedicated to offering telecommunications equipment and solutions in the fields of telephony, mobile telephony and multimedia communications and internet.
Ericcson has been in Colombia since 1896 when its founder Lars Magnus Ericsson sent the first 50 telephone sets from Stockholm to Colombia destined for the Bogotá Telephone Company; These Model No. 1 telephones would provide service to nearly 500 subscribers through the Bogotá – Chapinero line, which would mark the beginning of a close business relationship.
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The person who was on the government visit was the Minister of Science Jessenia Olaya and not the Minister of ICT Mauricio Lizcano. The woman from Tumaque, whom Petro supported after questions about inconsistencies in her resume, which she ended up acknowledging, was the only member of the cabinet who was in Sweden, along with Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo who traveled from Jordan where he was participating in an international conference on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
