{"id":4345,"date":"2022-05-26T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2022-05-27T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:36:31","slug":"guillermo-de-saint-malo-eleta-chiriqui-has-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8benormous-wealth-in-natural-resources-with-hard-working-enterprising-and-ingenious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/05\/26\/guillermo-de-saint-malo-eleta-chiriqui-has-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8benormous-wealth-in-natural-resources-with-hard-working-enterprising-and-ingenious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Guillermo de Saint Malo Eleta: “Chiriqui has \u200b\u200benormous wealth in natural resources with hard-working, enterprising and ingenious people”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this new edition dedicated to the Chiriqui Province, we wanted to bring a Special Guest who is an outstanding Panamanian in the business world and from a family that has been developing the base of ecological tourism and agro-tourism in this province for a long time. Guillermo de Saint Malo Eleta is a Panamanian businessman and philanthropist who serves as Executive Director for Grupo Eleta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Haras Cerro Punta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grandson of Fernando Eleta Almaran, a pioneer in the television and horse breeding business. Guilermo de Saint Malo Eleta is a professional who believes in working with integrity, ethics and entrepreneurship. Principles that guide him as a human being and unites his family in the business conglomerate. Our guest studied business at Clark University, in Massachusetts, and has promoted luxury tourism businesses, agrobusiness, companies such as Cafe Eleta, Cafe Unido and Ninety Plus. In this exclusive interview, he shares with The Visitor his vision of tourism, Panama and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cafe Eleta Work Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Your company comes from a family legacy started\nby Fernando Eleta. What do you feel is the greatest legacy of your grandfather\nand what is the formula that has been applied in order for the new generations to\nnot only follow the path, but also introduce growth?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThe greatest\nlegacy that my grandfather gave us has been excellence. Something he always\ndemanded from us in everything; not to be the biggest but the best. He always\napplied it to himself, and it was the permanent advice for his children and\ngrandchildren, and that now with love we transmit to the next Eleta\ngenerations. We carry that same legacy of excellence to our companies,\npromoting a management style based on detecting the potential of each person\nand ensuring that we provide them with the tools to express themselves to the\nfullest, and basing our multiple businesses on high standards of\nresponsibility, vision, social and human\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For you as a family and company, what does it\nmean to be part of the thriving Chiriqui Province, and what is it that\ndifferentiates this province from the rest of the country?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChiriqui has\n\u200b\u200benormous wealth in natural resources and its people are hard-working,\nenterprising and resourceful. For many years this province was practically\nisolated from the rest of the country, but its climate and fertile lands made\nit attractive to immigrants from Canada, Croatia, Germany, and different parts\nof Europe, who injected their dynamism and adventurous spirit into these lands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 That natural,\nhuman and cultural wealth was identified by my grandfather very early when he\nfounded Haras Cerro Punta in 1972, working hand in hand with my grandmother Graciela,\nand horse breeding experts such as Alberto Paz Rodriguez. Haras Cerro Punta is\nnot only the family farm, but also an international benchmark in the breeding\nof thoroughbred horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also founded companies such as Nutricion Animal, S.A. and the Cafe Eleta farm, with which we generate value for the communities where they meet with the creation of employment and joint work with local authorities to improve their living conditions. In more recent years, we have continued betting on Chiriqui through renewable energy generation companies such as EISA and EcoSolar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 The Eleta\ncompany has many years of history, being a state of the art company in terms of\norganization as well as its human management. What is the path you suggest for\nany organization that wants to generate real value in our country?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Eleta we work so that our companies represent\npositive and sustainable impacts, particularly in sectors where shared value\ncan be generated for employees, the communities where we operate and for our\nshareholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it is essential that companies and\nentrepreneurs in our country carry out their projects from this perspective.\nThis is the path to follow for the sustainable development of the country,\nthrough employment and educational opportunities, the promotion of sustainable\nhuman development and the preservation of our natural and cultural heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Agrotourism experience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When a visitor decides to have a tourist\nexperience in your farm, what are the moments that you want to leave in the\nmemory and heart of each one?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the particular case of Haras Cerro Punta, this is\nalso a refuge for the Eleta family, where we build memories with my\ngrandparents, brothers and cousins. Likewise, we want our visitors to be able\nto experience the magic of the Chiriqui highlands, learning about the nobility\nof the horses, the beauty of the landscape, the vegetation and the gastronomy\nof the Highlands as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cafe Eleta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When an American, European or Asian gets their\nhands on a coffee grown and produced on one of your farms, what do they want to\nreflect in each cup of coffee about Panama?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe coffee\nprocess, from its cultivation to the preparation of the cup, is complex and\ndelicate. The product that we sell as Cafe de Eleta comes from the same farm where we\ntake care of every aspect of the process following our tradition of excellence.\nWe want that excellence to be reflected in the product and in the experience of\nthose who drink it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this new edition dedicated to the Chiriqui Province, we wanted to bring a Special Guest who is an outstanding Panamanian in the business world and from a family that has been developing the base of ecological tourism and agro-tourism in this province for a long time. Guillermo de Saint Malo Eleta is a Panamanian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}