Who is the Argentine businessman who will produce the covid-19 vaccine for Latin America? His historical ties with the Communist Party, his entry into the business world, his view of politics: the profile of a peculiar character. The owner of the vaccine Hugo Sigman: from the left to the pharmaceutical On August 12, the Argentine government announced the co-production with Mexico of the AZD1222 coronavirus vaccine, designed by the University of Oxford. The agreement will allow the manufacture of 250 million doses of this vaccine (which is now in the experimental phase) and supply all of Latin America (except Brazil) with vaccines that will cost between 3 and 4 dollars.
This is a technology transfer agreement Country Email List between the British laboratory AstraZeneca, owner of the formula, the Argentine mAbxience, which will manufacture the active ingredient, and the Mexican Liomont, which will be responsible for stabilization, manufacturing and packaging. The Slim Foundation will finance the entire project. Behind Country Email List this business plot there are two people: Carlos Slim, the fifth richest man in the world, and the much less well-known Hugo Sigman, the Argentine owner of a pharmacological empire that Country Email List extends from Vietnam to Barcelona, from Morocco to Paraguay, from Russia to Argentine Patagonia.
The mystery of Sigman lies in his "internal Country Email List exteriority" to pharmaceutical capitalism: trained as a psychiatrist in Argentina, a progressive with a communist past, a lover of art and the intelligentsia, he began his business career in Country Email List Europe and never ceases to define himself as someone alien to a world of the businesses that, on the other hand, he manages masterfully: taking advantage of the legal gaps in the pharmaceutical Country Email List industry, forging alliances with the State and making his various patronage profitable in one way or another.