The surname Eskenazi is making headlines again after the ruling in favor of a pair of English investment funds by the U.S. judiciary in the case regarding the nationalization of YPF, exposing the "crony socialism" model of kirchnerismo, which today costs Argentinians more than 17 billion dollars.
Although they're currently far from the spotlight, it was the shares belonging to the Eskenazi family that gave rise to the lawsuit brought by the fund Burford Capital.
The family first came to public attention at the end of 2007, when then-president Néstor Kirchner surprised the energy sector by choosing the Petersen group, controlled by the Eskenazi family, as the Argentinian partner of the Spanish company Repsol in YPF.
Although overnight they became part of the owners of the country's largest company at that time, the truth is that the Eskenazi family had virtually no previous experience in the energy sector.
Starting in the 1990s, already at the helm of his company, Enrique Eskenazi led a process of expansion and diversification that took him into key sectors such as public services, agribusiness, and the financial system.
This growth led to the creation of a business conglomerate. Curiously, when it came time to name the holding, the businessman chose the surname of one of the founding partners of the construction company he had acquired, instead of using his own.
