In the circles of power, we have been talking about the Canosa since the 90s, although in the United States it was a name that sounded very strong for its Active militancy against the Cuban regime. After all, Jorge Mas Canosa, the patriarch, born in a middle -class family set in Havana, was exiled in Miami in 1960.
The first to make contact with them was José Luis Manzano, When the former chief of Carlos Menem cabinet left California first and then to Washington in a curriculum and business. Account legend that was Adelina Dalesio de Viola who introduced Jorge Mas Canosa.
With a foundation of close links with the Republican party, Mas Canosa reaped support funds to Cuban exile. Some linked their meteoric social ascent with certain ties with the CIA. The truth is that it started with the cable lying on the Florida Peninsula.
In 1969, he acquired a small Puerto Rican telephone company called Churches and Torres thanks a loan of US $ 50,000 and renamed Church & Tower, hoping to enter the US market.
He succeeded and ventured it into cable. And with Manzano, the possibility of joint business became a reality when He helped him grow in Supercanal in Society with the brothers Daniel and Alfredo Vila. More Canosa was a partner with 29% of that company.
More Canosa died prematurely of cancer in 1997 at 58 in Coral Gables, Florida. The last name and business continued in their children, Jorge and José, who specialized in Engineering services with the Holding Mastec.
In Argentina they load at this stage with a frustration. These owners of Inter Miami, the club in which Lionel Messi plays and in the case of Jorge, president of Real Zaragoza, of Spain; They presented themselves with their controlled Pumpco for the tender of a section of former Néstor Kirchner gas pipeline and remained discarded from the process.
Although they were the ones that facilitated the machines for the construction of the ditches of that laying, they failed again in the tender of the reversal of the Northern Gas Pipeline to take the gas from Vaca Muerta to the northern provinces.
MASTEC is one of the main duct construction companies in the United States, where it moves US $ 13,000 million a year. The collection includes the telecommunications, generation and distribution of energy and gas pipelines, among other large engineering works. They use 22,000 people. And now they want to play again in the country.