Tuesday, September 30, 2014

The two lives of Boyer – The World

The two lives of Boyer – The World

Miguel Boyer lived two lives. In the first, a son of Republican exile and a young leftist with high intellectual formation that eventually became part of the generation of the PSOE, under the leadership of Felipe Gonzalez came to power in 1982 in his second life was, came to wide public through the Hello and Ruiz-Mateos. In both lives, behaved with the very superiority of a person known smarter than average. His intellectual brilliance and capacity for analysis were always beyond doubt. In the same way that his arrogance in dealing with the rest of mankind.

Boyer chose economics as a field of knowledge and its destination is crossed with Felipe González in the late 70s was the teacher who introduced the Socialist leader in the arcana of macroeconomics. As finance minister in the first socialist government after winning 82, Boyer happens to be the mastermind of tight fiscal policies were said then-Liberals and became the bete noire much of Almighty guerrismo and the UGT, the union brother PSOE. However, Boyer went down in history for such a leftist measured as the expropriation of RUMASA , which will also become the nemesis Ruiz-Mateos. The Ghost of Superman dressed businessman appeared to him in a dream to the horror of his membership of the social, political and economic elite.

Its passage by the Government confirmed that the rare intellectuals once out good politicians. Felipe González himself said years after Boyer was a man as smart as awkward in economic matters in politics. So he failed in his cracking to be vice president and was forced to leave the government. Their romance and subsequent marriage with Isabel Preysler made him the paradigm of beautiful people that socialists pata negra whipped at rallies. While War had asked his party colleagues that veranearan with the jug and head scarf to set an example, Boyer landing at Marbella every summer behind many trunks his wife.

Boyer he combined his status Preysler husband and inhabitant of the luxurious mansion of the 13 bathrooms with their work in front of banks and major companies. Their presence in Madrid showroom never went out. When his star began to wane, gave the stroke joining the FAES and calling the vote for José María Aznar. He left his FAES discrepancy with Iraq War . In recent years, after the outbreak of the crisis, it became occasional adviser to former President Zapatero, who called him to La Moncloa after reading an article in which he showed compassion for economic policy the socialist government.

The end of the socialist government and the stroke he suffered later, in spring 2012, made its efforts to focus on their own recovery and their public presence is reduced to some sporadic cover Hello .

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