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[Cositorto] I was at the entrance
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and saw them giving out
these little mirrors.
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I will ask all of you
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to please
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take them out of your pockets.
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And hold them in your hands.
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I'll ask you to do something
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you haven't done in a long time.
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Look into your own eyes
like it's the first time.
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{\an8}Can you see your eyes?
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{\an8}- [man] Yes!
- Can you see them well?
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{\an8}- [man] Yes!
- Put the mirror right in front of them.
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{\an8}That's it.
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I think you've forgotten about yourselves.
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Keep looking in the mirror,
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because I will now read to you
what I once told myself.
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- Do you all have a mirror?
- [audience] Yes!
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If you don't have it,
close your eyes and imagine one.
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Every morning,
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when I wake up feeling sad,
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I'll look into the mirror.
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And I'll know I have a heart full of love.
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And full of courage to carry on.
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I want you to give
yourselves one last chance,
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{\an8}because it's very easy to stay seated
and complain about the past.
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{\an8}I now invite you to make a final decision,
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{\an8}and dare to stand on your chair!
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{\an8}Yes, go on, do it!
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{\an8}Stand on your chairs
and make that final decision,
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{\an8}because human beings,
ladies and gentlemen,
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{\an8}were born to be free.
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{\an8}We were born to reach
our fullest potential.
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{\an8}That is our one and only opportunity!
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{\an8}Interpol has ordered
the detainment of Leonardo Cositorto,
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{\an8}CEO of the Generation Zoe organization.
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{\an8}We're talking about
a Ponzi scheme, a scam.
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{\an8}HOW DID GENERATION ZOE WORK?
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{\an8}The commission keeps increasing
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{\an8}in relation to the amount of friends
you can convince.
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How many of you are freer than before?
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[all cheer]
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{\an8}[reporter 1] Cositorto directed
and promoted an association
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{\an8}to commit illegal acts.
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{\an8}[reporter 2] This so-called company,
Generation Zoe, doesn't produce anything.
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{\an8}Its only activity is to collect money,
return a part, keep the rest. Simple.
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{\an8}GENERATION ZOE WILL HAVE A NEW CEO
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{\an8}What kind of a company can offer
7.5% monthly profitability in dollars?
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{\an8}ALLEGED SCAMS WITHIN GENERATION ZOE
PRIOR TO CHARGES
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[Cositorto] Who has bought a house
or a new car this year?
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[crowd cheers]
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The Generation Zoe scandal
is beginning to spread internationally.
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[woman] It's not only in Colombia.
Also in Peru, Ecuador, the United States,
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{\an8}Guatemala, Mexico,
Spain, Italy, and Germany.
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[Cositorto] How many of us are happier?
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[reporter 3]
What's behind this cryptocurrency pastor?
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{\an8}Is there something, or nothing at all?
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[upbeat techno music playing]
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[Cositorto] The idea was to create
a Zoe way of life, which is a choice,
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because we don't have to live
in the world created for us.
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Of course, this is entirely
divergent, disruptive,
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and different from the world provided
by the traditional political system
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where they give you a roof,
put you in a box, give you a salary,
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and have you earn what the market allows.
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On the other hand, Zoe allows you
to earn according to your efforts.
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Leaders, are you following me?
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["Vida Acuática" by Kita Pena playing]
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[Cositorto] We have escaped
this culture's enslaving paradigm,
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and have entered
the paradigm of abundance.
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[water bubbling]
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[tweeting]
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- [camera shutters snap]
- [audience cheering]
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[protesters shouting]
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ILLUSIONS FOR SALE:
THE RISE AND FALL OF GENERATION ZOE
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[lilting music playing]
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[Juliana] Villa María is a city
where we have almost everything.
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Well, we're missing a mall.
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[Belén] It's like a big town.
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If I know someone, most likely
we'll have someone else in common.
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There's a lot of purchasing power,
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especially from people
with undeclared income sources.
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It's a city where you can grow,
if you're willing to.
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[Cositorto]
Like most of the Pampa Húmeda region,
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Villa María lives off its rural area.
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Twenty-four percent
of the national production of milk
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is here.
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It's become the country's main dairy area,
over Sunchales and Rafaela.
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There is a lot of industry
adding value to rural production.
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[lighthearted music playing]
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[cash register dinging]
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[Cositorto] These factors illustrate
the economic power
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that Villa María
and all of its surrounding areas possess.
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Leonardo Cositorto
knew what Villa María had to offer.
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He knew the place.
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If you could go anywhere in the country,
why would you come to Villa María?
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[train horn blows]
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{\an8}VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE
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{\an8}My name is Belén.
I was born here in the city.
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{\an8}I have a wholesale
clothing and footwear business.
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I've been doing that
for almost seven years.
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And I have two children.
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[gentle music playing]
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[Belén] Maybe it was the kind of life
that I was leading.
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It all felt a bit flat to me,
like a whole lot of the same.
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I felt like something was missing,
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and there was something else
left for me to discover.
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I began studying coaching in 2019.
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{\an8}COACHING LESSONS
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SEARCH WITH GOOGLE
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[Belén] I saw it as an opportunity
for personal growth,
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and it gave me the desire
to start dreaming again.
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Ontological coaching gives us the ability
to communicate effectively with others,
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and it encompasses everything.
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Communication, listening,
active listening, and beyond.
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It's not only
about transmitting the information,
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but also learning how to receive it.
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[Belén] My teachers were Claudio Álvarez
and Silvia, his mother.
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And if we all work as a team,
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we'll be able to achieve
extraordinary results...
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[Belén] We'd go to Silvia's house.
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There were, like,
ten to fifteen students at most.
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[Silvia] It took me an incredibly
long time to believe in myself.
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To realize that I can do...
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[Belén] For me, my life was defined
by before and after coaching.
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They taught us
to see things from another angle.
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We learned to use
our minds in a different way.
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It was always through a lens
of personal growth and self-empowerment.
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Never a financial point of view.
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[Silvia] All of the information
that I have gained
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through my experiences...
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[Belén] Once I was finished
with all of my studies,
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I started hearing more about Zoe.
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It was really starting
to make some noise around town.
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{\an8}FOUNDER OF GENERATION ZOE
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{\an8}Greetings to all Córdobans,
and those who aren't.
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{\an8}Today at 5:00 p.m.,
don't miss the grand opening
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{\an8}of one of the offices
that will leave a mark on both
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Argentina and Latin America.
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"Opportunity" is the key word.
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[Silvia] Zoe!
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As you can see, this is the lobby.
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And today is our grand opening
here in Villa María.
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We have the traders over here.
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And over there you can see the offices.
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Here we have the tellers,
or cashiers, so to speak.
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{\an8}And after a lot of hard work,
today is the opening day of our own space.
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{\an8}GENERATION ZOE LEADER
VILLA MARÍA
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Have they walked around the offices?
Have you seen everything yet?
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Do you know what to do?
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{\an8}When you come to collect your money,
do you know what to do?
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{\an8}GENERATION ZOE LEADER
VILLA MARÍA
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{\an8}[Belén] Through social media,
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{\an8}I began seeing
how their lives had changed.
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All of a sudden,
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they began having
all of these fancier things.
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Houses.
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Trips.
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Cars.
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- How are you, Claudito?
- Great.
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I'm actually living out one of my dreams.
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I had always said to my mother,
my kids, my family,
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and to everyone else,
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I would tell them that one day,
I would have this car.
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And I even had it as my computer's
screen saver for many years.
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But what I never, ever imagined
or even considered was a possibility,
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was that I would be receiving
this kind of a blessing
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at this stage of my life.
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And it's all thanks to you, Leo.
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To the team, to Zoe,
and to the lifestyle we are living.
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Thank you.
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Claudito, three years ago,
what did you drive, a photocopier?
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The closest I'd gotten to it
was a photocopier...
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[Belén] So, I went to Claudio
to ask what this was all about.
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He told me, and then invited me,
to a business presentation.
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So I went, and the rest...
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In order to tell you what Zoe is,
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I first have to talk to you
about the essence of it all.
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That, at it's core, it is a vision
of an educational model
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that stems from coaching.
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However, we have come to understand
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that solely conducting training
was not enough.
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If we didn't have the means
to pay our light bills,
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our water bills,
and our children's expenses,
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if we ended up getting sick,
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we could end up going into bankruptcy.
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That is the reason
why we created this tool,
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to give everybody
the possibility of making money.
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That's when they told me
that through the educational membership,
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I could study coaching
and get paid while I was doing it.
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EDUCATIONAL PLATFORM
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GENERATE INCOME
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Our memberships
had about four pillars altogether.
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The first pillar has always been
about the training of our leadership team.
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Then we created
what we called the referral plan.
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In this plan, for every person
that was referred by a member,
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we gave them royalties and earnings.
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There was also another pillar,
which we called the pillar of tourism.
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If you made a one-time investment
of just $1,600,
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we would take you on at least two trips
over the next two years.
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{\an8}And then, finally,
we had the fourth pillar,
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{\an8}which was the investment area,
with a 7.5% profitability
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in the same currency in which
the person had initially invested.
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I had determined that return myself
because I decided
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that this amount was enough
for the company to sustain itself
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and to grow as well.
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I told my husband about it,
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checked how much money I had at home,
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and he said "yes" with no hesitation.
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Mostly because we had both been looking
for an opportunity to grow.
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I took the amount and deposited it.
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[car engine running]
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[Cositorto] Hey, how are you?
This is Leonardo Cositorto greeting you.
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I want to tell you that,
for the last 27 years,
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I have been dedicated
to the networking and sales business.
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And in those years,
I've been in over a thousand planes.
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A thousand planes that cost me
around half a million dollars.
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just in tickets alone.
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They may have cost even more.
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I have committed my life to being
a professional ontological coach,
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and we train leaders
all over Latin America.
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[lilting piano music playing]
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[announcer] Going across Latin America,
bringing forth opportunity.
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Spreading everything, from the word of God
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to business opportunities.
The man you were waiting for...
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[Raquel] What everyone
was saying in the auditorium
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at the Santa Marta convention,
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{\an8}was that he was a renowned master coach
in the ontology field in Argentina...
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{\an8}VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE
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...and he was an experienced businessman.
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[announcer] Mr. Leonardo Cositorto!
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[Raquel] I had never heard
of Leonardo Cositorto.
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When he stepped onto the stage,
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the applause was just overwhelming,
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and the joy and all that cheering
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just wouldn't stop.
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[applause]
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It really caught my attention.
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Everything I see is a perception,
the interpretation of an illusion.
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But my ego makes me believe
that what I see is the reality.
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[Raquel] He had a great sense of humanity.
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[Cositorto] Even in Scripture, the Bible
says we see things through a mirror.
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Who are we actually looking at
in the mirror? Ourselves.
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He was sensible.
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[Cositorto] Repeat, ontological coaching
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isn't just information.
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It's a paradigm for winning.
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THE 21 INSIGHTS
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[Raquel] Right at the end
of giving the talks,
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they started offering
their educational packages.
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{\an8}ALL CAREERS AND INSIGHTS FOR FREE
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What were the subjects?
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BETTER THAN JUST A SERMON
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Neurolinguistics, ontology, finances.
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I was on the fence
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because it's one thing to like something,
and another to want to buy it.
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I wasn't sure I wanted to buy it.
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However, when I went back
to the activities
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after finishing my lunch,
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when I opened my wallet,
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I discovered that all my cash was gone.
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[Cositorto] Unfortunately, we will be
sharing what we have to-- Yes?
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So I told the master coach
what had just happened to me.
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And he said,
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"Well, I'm willing to count the money
that they stole from you
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as part of the payment,
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and you can pay off
the remaining amount next week."
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To me, that was a clear example
of solidarity and support.
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[calliope music playing faintly]
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And I thought,
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"What if I buy it? What if I pay it off?"
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"Why not?"
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"I'll study, and if it yields returns...
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it would be good for me."
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In addition to the way
he handled that auditorium,
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which was hypnotizing.
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It was amazing.
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And it was something
that slowly started taking a hold of me.
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[uplifting music playing]
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It seems like he studies people's minds,
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and he sees into them.
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He just says what you want to hear.
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[distant police siren]
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When I finally decided
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that I was going to pay off
the educational package,
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I had already signed up
to be a student member of the Zoe group.
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[uplifting music continuous]
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[music fades]
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ARGENTINA
MARCH 3RD 2020
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[news anchor] The first case
of coronavirus has been confirmed.
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We have the first positive case
of coronavirus.
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- A 46-year-old man in Italy...
- [reporter] He had no symptoms.
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MARCH 20, 2020
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[Fernández] Starting at midnight tomorrow,
everyone must comply
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in total preventative social isolation.
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No one can leave their place
of residence at any time.
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Everyone must stay at home.
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- [farts]
- [woman laughs]
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Hi, I want to tell you that,
during this quarantine,
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I've met some new friends
that have always been in my house,
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but I'd never noticed them before.
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Let me introduce you.
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[in high-pitched voice] "Hi, how are you?"
"How's it going?"
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[Maximiliano]
My name is Maximiliano Batista.
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I'm 43 years old.
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I've been working since I was 11.
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In warehouses, ice cream shops,
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{\an8}and when I was 14
I worked at a funeral home.
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{\an8}VICE PRESIDENT AT GENERATION ZOE
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{\an8}One day, when I was 18 years old,
I went out looking for a job.
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{\an8}And that's when I met Leonardo,
who had a direct sales company.
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A car has high operational...
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You'd see him driving
a Toyota Country, an amazing car.
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He wore the best suits, like Hugo Boss.
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And I used to buy my clothes secondhand.
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[chuckles]
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You could see that people admired him,
they'd applaud him, he'd give his talks.
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I thought he was amazing
and wanted to be just like him.
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{\an8}Every morning, go into the bathroom,
look at yourself in the mirror, and say,
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{\an8}"Wow, I'm so good-looking!"
Come on, everyone together!
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"I'm so good-looking! My body's amazing!"
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[audience repeats]
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Then just kiss yourself a little bit.
Very good.
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[Maximiliano]
So, I started working for that company.
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I remember he asked me
what I needed and I said,
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"Audio equipment and a fridge."
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And he says, "If you become a manager,
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I'll give you the fridge
and the audio equipment."
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Of course I helped Maxi Batista.
Absolutely.
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I gave him a hand so he could grow.
The rest was all thanks to his own merit.
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[Maximiliano] I remember I worked so hard
that in four and a half months,
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I became a manager.
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But, hey, life happens.
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I was in the company
for seven or eight months,
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and during that time
I disagreed with him on many things.
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So I left the company
and started on my own.
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Today's training challenge. First...
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Until the pandemic hit, I was doing well.
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I had four cars working at a cab company,
a cosmetics company.
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I bought my apartment.
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When the pandemic hit,
there was a breaking point
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because all the door-to-door salespeople
that worked with me had to leave.
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CLOSED - 80 DAYS SHUTDOWN
IMPOSSIBLE TO SUSTAIN
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{\an8}WE CAN'T OPEN YET!!!
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{\an8}I went out with a table and sold perfumes,
lotion and hand sanitizer to people.
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Right around that time,
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Leo used to live
around the corner from my office,
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and that's when we started
to get in touch again.
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I HAVE A PROJECT TO TELL YOU ABOUT
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IT'S CALLED GENERATION ZOE
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That's when Leo came up to me and he said,
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"Max, I need a coach to give these talks."
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And I told him, "Sure, no problem."
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Hi. I want to tell you
that we're giving out ten scholarships.
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We live in an Argentina that's wealthy,
but mentally poor.
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{\an8}Today, I will talk about the three A's.
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{\an8}These are the fundamentals
to achieve success...
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{\an8}I'd get paid for each talk,
so I'd show up and lead the session.
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I was just like any other hired coach.
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[man 1] We'll tell you a little bit
of what Zoe's about,
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and about Leo's goal,
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which is to certify a million people
to make a living being coaches.
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[woman] Good evening, everybody,
in all countries of Latin America.
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A marvelous audience of 326 people.
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I imagine you're tuning in
from all over the world.
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Welcome to this neuromarketing madness.
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It's really a pleasure to have you here.
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I've missed giving these talks.
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[Raquel] During the pandemic,
the information spread massively.
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{\an8}And because of it,
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{\an8}so did people's participation.
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[man 2] Our main purpose
is to democratize education,
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so everyone can have access
to an education focused on results.
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Why do some people
achieve better results than others?
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Thank you to all attendees.
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Participant numbers keep growing,
people are still coming in.
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ATTENDEES
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Because we love what we're doing here,
and because we want so much more.
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[Cositorto] During the pandemic,
everyone was staying in their homes.
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Many people were looking for remote jobs.
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They were looking for something to study,
or some kind of economic endeavor.
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People were bored,
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and the circumstances of the pandemic
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helped us grow a bit faster
than we ever expected.
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{\an8}[upbeat pop music playing]
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We've also got Leo here.
Leo has just signed in.
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As soon as we opened up the chat room,
there were already 720 people.
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They were connected and waiting.
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It's amazing. Let me tell you, Claudito,
I'm in Mexico right now.
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I just landed in Cancún.
We're getting ready for today's event.
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{\an8}All of these people behind me,
they are all waiting.
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{\an8}- [Cositorto] Spectacular.
- Ready for the flight.
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{\an8}Well, we're ready to go, Cartagena.
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{\an8}- [all chanting]
- [rhythmic clapping]
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{\an8}Guys, this is us living the Zoe life!
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{\an8}- From Brazil...
- [all] We are Zoe!
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{\an8}♪ Your life will change
Oh, oh, oh ♪
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{\an8}♪ Zoe... ♪
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{\an8}Medellín, here!
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{\an8}I want to thank Zoe and Leo Cositorto
for this chance to meet new people
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{\an8}and learn from each of them.
This has been an amazing experience.
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{\an8}[all cheering]
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{\an8}An impressive night in Arequipa
with a full theater.
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{\an8}We're kicking off tomorrow.
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{\an8}People are really happy and thankful.
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I was hospitalized,
and I escaped from two hospitals.
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Don't talk to me about the pandemic.
I know it from the inside.
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I might've been the first
forced into isolation in Argentina.
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I don't know if it was 'cause I'm crazy
or 'cause of COVID.
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I ran away from two hospitals!
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Around November 2020, Leo says to me,
"Max, I need more of you here."
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"Travel with me, let's form a duo."
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{\an8}I thought, "Maybe that's my life purpose,
to continue giving these talks
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{\an8}and touching people's lives
and their hearts."
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You are the one who can bless,
the one who can perform miracles.
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You have that power.
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Imagine if you showed that to an employer.
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I loved going on stage,
giving talks and seeing people transform.
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I'd finish and people would come up to me
and they'd say,
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"Max, you changed my life."
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"I used to waste away
lying in bed all day."
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"I couldn't get up."
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"And now I get up
just to come and see you talk."
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[gentle music playing]
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[Mirian] My name is Mirian.
I was born in Buenos Aires.
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I'm married, I have three kids.
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And I'm a healthcare professional,
a dialysis technician.
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{\an8}I first I heard about Zoe
from a person that I fully trusted.
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{\an8}VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE,
BUENOS AIRES BRANCH
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{\an8}They said, "Look, I have something
great for you that you're gonna love,
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{\an8}and it will change your life completely."
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"I've actually been a part
of this group for a while,
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and I think this will be perfect for you."
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[gentle music continues]
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They then explained that it was real,
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and that it provided
a 7.5% return each month.
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{\an8}And I didn't have to do anything at all
other than making the first investment.
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{\an8}It was all about making your own money
by putting it to work for you.
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And I said that I loved it!
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[gentle music continues]
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[Mirian] So that's how it happened.
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Without knowing anything about Zoe,
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without ever seeing their logo
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or knowing who their director,
owner, or creator was,
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I started my first membership.
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STUDY AND INVEST IN YOUR FUTURE WITH ZOE
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When I opened up their website,
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I noticed that it had my name
and picture posted on it,
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and the website showed me a virtual office
that they called the "back office."
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[mouse clicks]
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You could check things on your cell phone,
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you could see how your money
was growing little by little.
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It was clear as day,
in this beautiful virtual cloud.
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So you'd always get excited about it.
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It was this feeling like,
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"Wow, I have so much money.
I can't believe it."
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And so, of course, you begin wanting
to share this with people
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and talk about it,
because it's contagious.
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"What are you up to?" "Did you see this?"
"What are you doing right now?"
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I started to see this opportunity
as a doorway to achieve my dreams,
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my financial freedom,
and my economic independence.
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I started having more time to myself,
for my household and my children.
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[gentle music continues]
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You would see this beautiful world
and think that this is the new thing.
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It's what's coming next.
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I want to ride this new wave.
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I thought it was all
very interesting and enthralling.
472
00:25:27,776 --> 00:25:30,779
[gentle music continues]
473
00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:43,208
[Mirian] Before you realized it,
you were constantly thinking about it.
474
00:25:43,208 --> 00:25:45,877
You'd wake up with Zoe
and go to bed with Zoe.
475
00:25:50,465 --> 00:25:52,634
[mysterious music playing]
476
00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:55,554
[Belén] I can't remember the exact date,
477
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:59,057
but later I was invited
to a convention in Carlos Paz.
478
00:26:00,350 --> 00:26:02,936
I think they had filled up ten hotels.
479
00:26:03,645 --> 00:26:07,274
The minimum investment was $400.
480
00:26:07,274 --> 00:26:09,609
But if you could put in a thousand,
481
00:26:09,609 --> 00:26:13,947
you would get access to this convention
in which the hotel, the meals,
482
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,409
and the tickets for the lectures
were all included.
483
00:26:20,328 --> 00:26:22,831
[audience cheers and applauds]
484
00:26:23,832 --> 00:26:27,961
[Belén] There, in Carlos Paz,
I met Cositorto, Max Batista,
485
00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:31,256
and many of the leaders
from all the other provinces.
486
00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:36,219
It's about time that something
came into this world
487
00:26:36,219 --> 00:26:39,514
to shatter the culture and the routine.
488
00:26:39,514 --> 00:26:41,725
That something is here.
489
00:26:41,725 --> 00:26:44,728
And that something is Generation Zoe!
490
00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,314
And when you started talking to people,
491
00:26:47,314 --> 00:26:50,692
we were all on the same page
about pursuing our dreams.
492
00:26:50,692 --> 00:26:52,319
They were like, "Hey, what do you want?"
493
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:54,487
"I came into Zoe
'cause I don't have my own home."
494
00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:55,405
Just like me.
495
00:26:56,323 --> 00:26:58,450
You'd hear everyone from millionaires
496
00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:01,161
to the poorest person
that had just gotten in.
497
00:27:01,161 --> 00:27:02,704
We were in it together.
498
00:27:02,704 --> 00:27:04,456
[inaudible]
499
00:27:04,456 --> 00:27:09,169
All of the speakers were people
that had been in the business for a while.
500
00:27:09,169 --> 00:27:12,088
And they'd talk about
how much they had invested,
501
00:27:12,088 --> 00:27:14,549
and when and how much
they had earned to date.
502
00:27:16,426 --> 00:27:21,181
{\an8}[Gaby] As an actor,
I was barely making $700 a month.
503
00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:23,767
{\an8}And today, working with Zoe,
504
00:27:23,767 --> 00:27:26,978
{\an8}I'm making over $15,000 each month.
505
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:28,980
[cheers and applause]
506
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:32,692
A donation of $1,000. So much gratitude!
507
00:27:32,692 --> 00:27:35,111
Well, let's join them to make it 1,500.
508
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:39,115
[man] There we go. He's taking $1,500!
509
00:27:40,533 --> 00:27:41,451
COSITORTOLAND
510
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:42,869
[Cositorto] It's a boy!
511
00:27:42,869 --> 00:27:44,204
[man whooping]
512
00:27:45,246 --> 00:27:47,540
[Cositorto]
He has the same name as my son.
513
00:27:48,458 --> 00:27:50,835
- Santiago!
- [Claudio] Where is Santiago?
514
00:27:50,835 --> 00:27:52,128
Over there in the back!
515
00:27:53,588 --> 00:27:57,384
[Belén] There were all of these
comedians and dance groups.
516
00:27:57,384 --> 00:28:00,679
I remember that Max Batista
came out on stage,
517
00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:02,347
and he started dancing.
518
00:28:02,347 --> 00:28:05,600
Then, at a certain point,
he took off his shirt
519
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,937
and he started doing
some kind of a sexy dance.
520
00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:12,273
Cositorto was just
looking at him in amazement
521
00:28:12,273 --> 00:28:13,900
from a small balcony.
522
00:28:15,944 --> 00:28:17,946
It was like going to Disneyland.
523
00:28:17,946 --> 00:28:21,491
I mean, I've never been,
but from what I've seen,
524
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:24,119
it's an amusement park
filled with fantasy.
525
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:27,330
And it felt like
we were living a life of luxury.
526
00:28:27,330 --> 00:28:30,667
It felt like you could do
anything you could ever want
527
00:28:30,667 --> 00:28:32,001
if you were part of Zoe.
528
00:28:32,001 --> 00:28:32,961
[cork pops]
529
00:28:33,503 --> 00:28:37,132
I told my husband
I'd ask Claudio to work at their office.
530
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:39,801
He asked, "How will you do that?"
531
00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:42,137
"How will you manage it
with your business?"
532
00:28:42,137 --> 00:28:43,179
I didn't care.
533
00:28:43,179 --> 00:28:47,100
I wanted to speak to Claudio because,
with the investments I'd been making,
534
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:49,853
it would take me much longer
to achieve what I wanted.
535
00:28:53,189 --> 00:28:55,358
I was already in, but I wanted more.
536
00:28:56,985 --> 00:29:01,990
I was seeing normal people that would
come up to me to talk about their dreams.
537
00:29:03,116 --> 00:29:06,286
"I'm putting all
of my life's savings in here
538
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:09,330
because I know
that this will give me more."
539
00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:13,168
"I know that I will be able
to help my parents retire
540
00:29:13,168 --> 00:29:15,712
and give my children a better life."
541
00:29:15,712 --> 00:29:17,589
That's where it clicked.
542
00:29:17,589 --> 00:29:21,384
This is a door to a magical world,
and we're going in.
543
00:29:21,384 --> 00:29:23,470
[mystical music playing]
544
00:29:27,557 --> 00:29:31,853
It woke up a desire in me to do anything,
especially once I was in.
545
00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:34,272
I was living what they were living.
546
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:40,195
GENERATION ZOE
WE UNITE LIVES AND DREAMS
547
00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:43,198
[soft music playing]
548
00:29:46,409 --> 00:29:49,287
[Nahuel] I'm Nahuel Bargaz.
I'm now 32 years old.
549
00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:52,707
I used to work in the automotive industry.
550
00:29:52,707 --> 00:29:56,169
I worked at a service station
where I had my own repair shop.
551
00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:01,466
{\an8}A friend began talking to me
about investments,
552
00:30:01,466 --> 00:30:03,092
{\an8}GENERATION ZOE TRADER
VILLA MARÍA BRANCH
553
00:30:03,092 --> 00:30:04,844
{\an8}the world of cryptocurrencies,
554
00:30:04,844 --> 00:30:07,388
{\an8}and honestly,
there was a lot I didn't understand.
555
00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:10,225
So I started studying it,
and that's when I rediscovered
556
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:13,770
my love for learning,
and I got into the trading world.
557
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,361
By word of mouth,
it started spreading all over town
558
00:30:21,361 --> 00:30:25,365
that there was some sort
of an investment fund
559
00:30:25,365 --> 00:30:26,908
that also had traders.
560
00:30:27,992 --> 00:30:30,870
They were all being trained
while they were working there.
561
00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:36,417
At that moment, they had already
been interviewing traders
562
00:30:36,417 --> 00:30:38,545
who had related work experience.
563
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:40,630
[calliope music playing]
564
00:30:43,216 --> 00:30:47,220
Ladies and gentlemen,
the key word is "opportunity."
565
00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:51,391
Come closer. You might be wondering
what trading is all about.
566
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:52,976
Trading, my dear audience,
567
00:30:52,976 --> 00:30:57,146
consists of trying to buy cheap
and sell high in a short period of time,
568
00:30:57,647 --> 00:31:00,149
in order to make a profit. Simple as that.
569
00:31:00,942 --> 00:31:04,571
And what are we trading?
Well, we have five options.
570
00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:07,198
Shares listed on the stock exchange.
571
00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:10,952
Currencies, such as euros,
dollars, yens, pounds,
572
00:31:10,952 --> 00:31:12,829
in a market called Forex.
573
00:31:12,829 --> 00:31:17,333
The infamous cryptocurrencies
such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others.
574
00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:20,795
Raw materials, especially gold and silver,
575
00:31:20,795 --> 00:31:23,464
and other kinds
of commodities and futures.
576
00:31:23,464 --> 00:31:26,134
It is simply an agreement
between two parties
577
00:31:26,134 --> 00:31:28,469
that are committed to exchanging assets
578
00:31:28,469 --> 00:31:31,222
at a future established date
for a set price.
579
00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:36,728
Trading is an activity
where you can earn or lose money.
580
00:31:36,728 --> 00:31:38,771
It requires training and dedication.
581
00:31:38,771 --> 00:31:41,733
For example, no one would think
of piloting an airplane
582
00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:44,027
after just two internet tutorials.
583
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:46,613
Right?
584
00:31:49,365 --> 00:31:51,492
[Nahuel]
The first interview was over Zoom.
585
00:31:51,492 --> 00:31:54,746
and then they asked me
if I could go into their offices
586
00:31:54,746 --> 00:31:56,497
for a second round of interviews.
587
00:31:57,373 --> 00:31:58,458
I went,
588
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:01,961
they explained their workflow
and methodology to me,
589
00:32:01,961 --> 00:32:03,504
and I told them I liked it.
590
00:32:04,631 --> 00:32:06,966
What trader wouldn't want the opportunity
591
00:32:06,966 --> 00:32:10,345
to manage capital
and work doing what they like to do?
592
00:32:10,345 --> 00:32:12,096
It was every trader's dream.
593
00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:14,974
[hopeful music playing]
594
00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:18,144
[Nahuel] The place felt calm and balanced,
595
00:32:18,144 --> 00:32:20,647
and the offices
were really well-thought-out.
596
00:32:24,067 --> 00:32:28,780
To be able to come in, open my computer,
talk to the coworker next to me and ask,
597
00:32:28,780 --> 00:32:32,492
"Hey, what are you analyzing today?
What do you like working on?"
598
00:32:35,912 --> 00:32:40,541
I was finally working in a place
where I could utilize what I had studied,
599
00:32:40,541 --> 00:32:43,419
I could help people capitalize on profits,
600
00:32:43,419 --> 00:32:45,880
and I could expand my trading expertise.
601
00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:50,760
And really, after that,
everything just flowed.
602
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,554
[hopeful music continues]
603
00:32:57,266 --> 00:32:59,602
The first thing that they did
when we got there
604
00:32:59,602 --> 00:33:02,105
was take the initiative
to test our abilities.
605
00:33:02,855 --> 00:33:04,440
Their idea was to see
606
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,485
how well we were able
to follow some instructions
607
00:33:08,069 --> 00:33:10,071
from someone who was an expert trader.
608
00:33:10,697 --> 00:33:14,033
And that expert trader
was named Rosa, María Rosa.
609
00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:19,122
{\an8}Hello, Maracaibo, this is Rosa María
González Rincón from Argentina.
610
00:33:19,122 --> 00:33:20,832
{\an8}I am currently working for Zoe,
611
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:22,875
{\an8}and I am designing three platforms
612
00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:26,170
{\an8}that are going to change the way
we transfer, produce,
613
00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:27,839
{\an8}and invest all our money.
614
00:33:27,839 --> 00:33:30,758
I also work as a professional trader
for the company,
615
00:33:30,758 --> 00:33:33,886
and along with a team in Córdoba,
here in Argentina,
616
00:33:33,886 --> 00:33:38,516
we managed to produce $125,000 in earnings
617
00:33:38,516 --> 00:33:41,561
for the company,
and this was just in the last week.
618
00:33:42,812 --> 00:33:45,314
[Nahuel]
She was clearly very knowledgeable
619
00:33:45,314 --> 00:33:47,483
in everything that she was doing.
620
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,485
Honestly, she was really remarkable.
621
00:33:49,485 --> 00:33:51,779
[dramatic music playing]
622
00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:57,285
[Belén] When I first started
working there,
623
00:33:57,285 --> 00:33:59,328
I did a little bit of everything.
624
00:33:59,328 --> 00:34:01,581
And then I moved on to customer care.
625
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:04,167
That's where people
would come in to talk to me
626
00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:06,252
about investing in the business.
627
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:09,422
When people came into the office,
628
00:34:09,422 --> 00:34:12,467
many of them already knew
what it was about,
629
00:34:12,467 --> 00:34:16,345
because it was spreading so quickly
by word of mouth.
630
00:34:16,345 --> 00:34:17,597
WELCOME TO ZOE
631
00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,474
ZOE PREMIUM
I'M NEW!
632
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:22,727
When you joined,
you had to enter under someone else.
633
00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:28,649
I'd bring someone in and make a commission
634
00:34:28,649 --> 00:34:30,985
for having introduced them
to the business.
635
00:34:30,985 --> 00:34:33,613
That person would then bring someone else,
636
00:34:33,613 --> 00:34:37,867
and I'd also receive a benefit from them
bringing people into the business.
637
00:34:38,534 --> 00:34:39,952
[inaudible]
638
00:34:40,787 --> 00:34:43,289
[Cositorto] I have all
of the people in my network
639
00:34:43,289 --> 00:34:47,335
up to the eighth line,
which in a perfect matrix of five,
640
00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:50,213
is around 400,000 people.
641
00:34:50,213 --> 00:34:54,634
If I have a thousand people in my network
and they each get the PIN,
642
00:34:54,634 --> 00:34:58,721
and each PIN up to the eighth line
pays me a hundred dollars,
643
00:34:58,721 --> 00:35:00,765
how much do I immediately earn?
644
00:35:00,765 --> 00:35:02,767
- [man] A hundred thousand.
- Hundred thousand what?
645
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:04,602
- [man] Dollars.
- Hundred thousand dollars.
646
00:35:06,729 --> 00:35:09,190
[Belén] Those of us
from the lower middle class
647
00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:11,526
would reinvest the money we'd make.
648
00:35:14,278 --> 00:35:17,865
Then there were also
other kinds of people.
649
00:35:17,865 --> 00:35:21,369
There were businessmen, lawyers, bankers.
650
00:35:22,829 --> 00:35:24,163
That was a lot of money.
651
00:35:24,163 --> 00:35:26,207
[dramatic music playing]
652
00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:34,090
People would come in to collect $60,000.
653
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:35,591
I signed those receipts.
654
00:35:36,717 --> 00:35:40,346
Sixty thousand dollars, here you go.
They'd take that money in their pockets.
655
00:35:42,473 --> 00:35:46,185
At one point, a man came in
with cardboard boxes,
656
00:35:46,185 --> 00:35:49,564
and those boxes were filled with dollars.
657
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:53,317
He walked in kicking those boxes,
and he asked,
658
00:35:53,317 --> 00:35:55,111
"Where do I put this?"
659
00:35:55,111 --> 00:35:56,863
"What's in them?" I asked.
660
00:35:56,863 --> 00:35:59,073
"Money." "In the boxes?"
661
00:35:59,073 --> 00:36:01,325
"Yes, I brought in dollars."
662
00:36:01,325 --> 00:36:05,663
There were $200,000 in those boxes.
663
00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:07,456
It was impressive.
664
00:36:07,456 --> 00:36:11,627
I swear, I had never seen
so much money in all my life.
665
00:36:11,627 --> 00:36:14,922
[dramatic music playing]
666
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:17,466
{\an8}FOR "EL DIARIO"
HAPPY 30 YEARS OF TRUTH-TELLING.
667
00:36:17,466 --> 00:36:20,178
[Sergio] It was September of 2021.
668
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:24,557
The first thing was a publication
in the local press,
669
00:36:24,557 --> 00:36:28,811
including our newspaper
El Diario del Centro del País.
670
00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:31,981
The article talked about the arrival
of a soccer team
671
00:36:31,981 --> 00:36:35,693
that was going to take up a spot
in the local league in Villa María.
672
00:36:35,693 --> 00:36:38,446
The soccer team was called Deportivo Zoe.
673
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:40,031
ZOE WITH PLANS TO "GO ALL IN"
674
00:36:40,031 --> 00:36:41,782
{\an8}JOURNALIST "EL DIARIO"
VILLA MARÍA
675
00:36:41,782 --> 00:36:44,911
{\an8}Big news. This was a new team.
It was the first time that a new team
676
00:36:44,911 --> 00:36:49,165
{\an8}came up from an economic background
instead of a social background.
677
00:36:49,165 --> 00:36:50,625
{\an8}A DIFFERENT
SOCCER CLUB
678
00:36:50,625 --> 00:36:52,752
{\an8}This team had well-known public figures...
679
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:53,920
{\an8}WITH
DISCIPLINE
680
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,796
{\an8}...of local and the national sports world.
681
00:36:55,796 --> 00:36:56,714
{\an8}SPIRITUAL
COACHING
682
00:36:56,714 --> 00:36:59,217
MENTAL
STRENGTH
683
00:36:59,217 --> 00:37:01,928
I'm not going to say
that this was the event
684
00:37:01,928 --> 00:37:04,847
that caused me to investigate things,
685
00:37:04,847 --> 00:37:07,058
but something about it did catch my eye.
686
00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:10,436
So I began paying
a little more attention after that.
687
00:37:10,436 --> 00:37:13,231
[dramatic music playing]
688
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:22,990
[Sergio] When you start noticing that
the receptionist from the local clinic
689
00:37:22,990 --> 00:37:26,410
that you normally go to
is no longer working there,
690
00:37:26,410 --> 00:37:28,746
you begin to ask yourself why.
691
00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:31,707
And then you find out
that they now work for Zoe.
692
00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:36,254
When you go to the car dealership
to service your car,
693
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:39,757
and you find out that the salesperson
who sold you your last car
694
00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:41,842
does not work at the dealership anymore,
695
00:37:42,426 --> 00:37:44,595
and you start seeing branded vehicles,
696
00:37:45,429 --> 00:37:46,555
not just any cars.
697
00:37:47,723 --> 00:37:48,557
Audi,
698
00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:50,184
Cooper,
699
00:37:50,810 --> 00:37:53,729
BMWs, all with the Zoe logo on them,
700
00:37:53,729 --> 00:37:56,941
that's when you start thinking,
"What is really going on here?"
701
00:37:58,484 --> 00:38:01,737
Then, almost immediately,
a similar situation comes to mind.
702
00:38:02,321 --> 00:38:05,366
Something that had happened
previously in Villa María
703
00:38:05,366 --> 00:38:08,369
{\an8}with a company called Soluciones Diarias.
704
00:38:08,369 --> 00:38:10,288
{\an8}CUSTOMER SAYS PAYMENTS
AREN'T BEING REGISTERED
705
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:12,456
The first thing that occurred to me
706
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:17,128
was asking the National Securities
and Exchange Commission, via email,
707
00:38:17,128 --> 00:38:20,923
if this company called Generation Zoe
was officially registered.
708
00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:27,388
And the National Commission of Exchange
wrote back to me saying it was not.
709
00:38:27,972 --> 00:38:29,682
They said that back in October
710
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:33,519
they had issued a note for them
to cease their economic offerings.
711
00:38:36,856 --> 00:38:41,193
I was feeling quite alone in trying
to uncover the truth in all of this,
712
00:38:41,193 --> 00:38:44,238
so that's when I decided
to publish the first article.
713
00:38:44,947 --> 00:38:46,657
I wrote it in one night.
714
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:52,079
When I wrote it, alI I really wanted
was for this not to happen again.
715
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:59,795
THE COMISSION OF EXCHANGE
DECLARED CESSATION FOR ZOE
716
00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:04,008
{\an8}We've just opened up
the offices of Aviva Zoe two weeks ago,
717
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:07,970
{\an8}so we really shouldn't be surprised
about being attacked like this, should we?
718
00:39:09,055 --> 00:39:12,558
{\an8}And it's more than likely
that they will keep on attacking.
719
00:39:12,558 --> 00:39:13,559
And you know what?
720
00:39:14,727 --> 00:39:18,647
I happened to get a WhatsApp message
from our leader, and he said,
721
00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:24,820
"You really thought that we would conquer
the entire city and the entire region,
722
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:27,073
and that they would just cheer us on?"
723
00:39:27,073 --> 00:39:28,407
"Don't be so naive."
724
00:39:28,949 --> 00:39:31,660
[foreboding music playing]
725
00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:33,037
[phones ringing]
726
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:36,332
[Nahuel] By November,
Zoe Broker started to operate.
727
00:39:36,332 --> 00:39:39,168
And they told us
that we would get the opportunity
728
00:39:39,168 --> 00:39:41,462
to work with more significant capital.
729
00:39:42,421 --> 00:39:45,049
We're talking about $50,000.
730
00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:47,093
[María Rosa] Hello there, Zoe community.
731
00:39:47,093 --> 00:39:49,804
We are over here
at the Zoe Broker facilities
732
00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:52,973
showing you a little piece
of what our platform is all about.
733
00:39:53,516 --> 00:39:55,267
This is the brains of it all,
734
00:39:55,267 --> 00:39:59,647
and this is our license which endorses us
as an official and international broker.
735
00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:03,859
Therefore, we will now be able
to deal in different financial markets.
736
00:40:03,859 --> 00:40:08,989
We invested an enormous amount of money
during a period of several months.
737
00:40:08,989 --> 00:40:14,036
In total, it cost us over $3 million
to have that broker.
738
00:40:14,036 --> 00:40:18,416
From there, we started
to open accounts of $50,000.
739
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:21,585
One for every trusted person,
or one per country.
740
00:40:22,211 --> 00:40:26,632
And then we moved on
to opening $250,000 accounts.
741
00:40:26,632 --> 00:40:30,386
From there, we began venturing
into other markets,
742
00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:34,473
such as Forex futures
and synthetic indices.
743
00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:39,353
There were 350 traders,
and they were constantly trading.
744
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:42,773
They were usually making
between one and two percent daily.
745
00:40:43,315 --> 00:40:45,067
That one or two percent translates
746
00:40:45,067 --> 00:40:48,988
into about 25 or 40%
monthly profitability.
747
00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:52,158
Rosa María made almost 90%.
748
00:40:52,158 --> 00:40:55,911
She even made 97% percent in one month.
And she put it all on display.
749
00:40:55,911 --> 00:40:59,582
{\an8}We are super happy
because Rosa María received an award
750
00:40:59,582 --> 00:41:03,461
just after 17 days
of having started operations
751
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:05,254
on the synthetic indices.
752
00:41:05,254 --> 00:41:08,966
She is truly achieving
extraordinary results every day.
753
00:41:08,966 --> 00:41:11,802
So today, we wanted to give her a reward.
754
00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:17,183
She is setting an example of humility,
dedication, and discipline for us all.
755
00:41:17,183 --> 00:41:19,143
[dramatic music playing]
756
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:24,523
[man] Why are some people
living on the streets begging for money
757
00:41:24,523 --> 00:41:26,567
while others are creating
their own income,
758
00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:28,110
like what we're doing in Zoe?
759
00:41:29,403 --> 00:41:31,614
{\an8}You would invest,
check it in the back office...
760
00:41:31,614 --> 00:41:33,407
{\an8}VICTIM OF GENERATION ZOE
BUENOS AIRES BRANCH
761
00:41:33,407 --> 00:41:35,201
{\an8}...see daily interest rates,
compound interest.
762
00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:38,954
{\an8}I didn't know what these things were,
reinvesting, and those sorts of things.
763
00:41:38,954 --> 00:41:41,916
It didn't make sense to me.
It was missing a paper trail.
764
00:41:45,169 --> 00:41:50,007
And along came Yrimia, and we knew
that he was a former national judge.
765
00:41:50,633 --> 00:41:53,093
[Hector] By the end of March of 2021,
766
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,097
the president of the company
comes to see me in my office.
767
00:41:57,097 --> 00:42:02,311
And he asks me, "What do I have to do
to comply with Argentina's legislation?"
768
00:42:03,979 --> 00:42:05,481
{\an8}GENERATION ZOE LEGAL ADVISOR
769
00:42:05,481 --> 00:42:09,443
{\an8}The goal is to make it abundantly clear
that today, as an economic group,
770
00:42:09,443 --> 00:42:11,904
{\an8}this is a properly established company.
771
00:42:12,571 --> 00:42:16,700
It is properly registered before
the General Inspectorate of Justice,
772
00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:19,620
along with its trust assets
which are regulated
773
00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:21,497
by the Ministry of Justice.
774
00:42:22,122 --> 00:42:24,833
This means that this is all regulated.
775
00:42:24,833 --> 00:42:27,503
Today, all are members of the trust.
776
00:42:27,503 --> 00:42:30,589
They are no longer franchised,
but participants.
777
00:42:30,589 --> 00:42:34,760
They no longer receive interests.
They now receive dividends.
778
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,889
[Belén] This man comes in
to quiet down everybody's doubts.
779
00:42:38,889 --> 00:42:42,643
Yrimia says to me, "Max, the trust
is gonna protect the company."
780
00:42:42,643 --> 00:42:45,771
"You'll have a $120,000 insurance."
781
00:42:45,771 --> 00:42:49,650
"And if anything happens within
the company, you'll be safeguarded."
782
00:42:49,650 --> 00:42:53,571
I would like to sum this up
with a funny anecdote.
783
00:42:53,571 --> 00:42:57,491
A journalist once asked Kissinger,
"How did you make so much money?"
784
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,454
And maybe one day someone will ask us,
"How did Zoe make so much money?"
785
00:43:02,997 --> 00:43:06,000
Kissinger wouldn't answer
until one day he said,
786
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,377
"You just have to make the first million."
787
00:43:08,877 --> 00:43:11,797
So the natural question
after that was, "How?"
788
00:43:11,797 --> 00:43:14,800
And he said, "By doing whatever possible."
789
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,303
"What about after that?"
"By following the law."
790
00:43:17,303 --> 00:43:18,929
He reassured us
791
00:43:20,055 --> 00:43:20,973
publicly
792
00:43:21,807 --> 00:43:25,394
that we could be absolutely at ease
793
00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:29,064
because since he was the legal director,
794
00:43:29,857 --> 00:43:31,859
he was the one responsible
795
00:43:31,859 --> 00:43:35,946
for the legality of every one
of Zoe's products.
796
00:43:35,946 --> 00:43:39,366
The other day, Maxi was just here with me
and I said to him,
797
00:43:39,366 --> 00:43:41,577
"Maxi, we're going all in on Bitcoin."
798
00:43:42,453 --> 00:43:46,415
Being next to Leo meant always
talking about possibilities, growth,
799
00:43:46,415 --> 00:43:48,375
of what was going to happen,
of what could come.
800
00:43:49,710 --> 00:43:51,045
People would come up to me saying,
801
00:43:51,045 --> 00:43:53,922
"Uncle Max,
I have a business idea to bring in."
802
00:43:53,922 --> 00:43:56,008
And the first thing I'd say to them was,
803
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:58,636
"Don't talk to me, talk to Leo.
He's the owner."
804
00:43:59,470 --> 00:44:02,514
He'd take ownership
of all the ideas and projects.
805
00:44:04,725 --> 00:44:07,436
Two people brought their dream
to our company,
806
00:44:07,436 --> 00:44:09,313
and now they will make good money.
807
00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:12,858
Besides, we want our puppies
and cats to be in a good place.
808
00:44:12,858 --> 00:44:14,818
Who here has a dog or a cat?
809
00:44:14,818 --> 00:44:17,738
[dramatic music playing]
810
00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:26,497
The businesses were what gave me
the most reassurance,
811
00:44:26,497 --> 00:44:28,457
without a shadow of a doubt.
812
00:44:29,249 --> 00:44:30,626
[indistinct chatter]
813
00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:32,544
[electricity buzzing]
814
00:44:35,839 --> 00:44:41,387
We bought two Zoe Burger establishments
for approximately $60,000 each,
815
00:44:41,387 --> 00:44:43,347
not including remodeling costs,
816
00:44:43,347 --> 00:44:46,058
and then, right behind that,
we had Zoe Car.
817
00:44:48,811 --> 00:44:51,146
You could see
that they had all of these stocks
818
00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:53,065
in different types of companies.
819
00:44:53,065 --> 00:44:56,026
The cars and the car offices were there.
820
00:44:56,026 --> 00:44:57,403
Everything was growing.
821
00:44:57,403 --> 00:45:00,406
Everything just kept
getting bigger and bigger.
822
00:45:00,406 --> 00:45:02,533
All of a sudden, we were everywhere.
823
00:45:03,367 --> 00:45:07,121
Because we are what we eat,
we are our repressed emotions,
824
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:09,039
and we are what we declare.
825
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:12,501
So today, we declare the opening
of Zoe Natural.
826
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:14,628
Thank you, Leo. And thank you, Maxi.
827
00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:16,463
{\an8}Do you want to know what else?
828
00:45:16,463 --> 00:45:19,383
{\an8}For the women,
there will be an entire gallery
829
00:45:20,467 --> 00:45:21,677
{\an8}for a beauty center.
830
00:45:21,677 --> 00:45:23,053
{\an8}A whole beauty center.
831
00:45:24,304 --> 00:45:25,556
There were surgeries.
832
00:45:25,556 --> 00:45:28,767
My female coworkers would suddenly come in
833
00:45:28,767 --> 00:45:30,894
with completely different looks.
834
00:45:30,894 --> 00:45:32,479
Or with Mini Coopers.
835
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:39,737
We are also going to open our first school
for kindergarten and first grade,
836
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:45,117
so that our children can finally go
to the schools that they truly deserve.
837
00:45:45,117 --> 00:45:49,621
- [man] Bravo!
- A school where there will be no strikes!
838
00:45:49,621 --> 00:45:53,250
[Maximiliano] What Leonardo Cositorto
was creating was an ecosystem.
839
00:45:53,250 --> 00:45:55,753
A community where,
if people were a part of Zoe,
840
00:45:55,753 --> 00:45:58,881
they'd go to the Zoe gym,
they'd eat at the Zoe burger shop.
841
00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:01,091
If they wanted to buy a car,
they could do that too.
842
00:46:01,091 --> 00:46:03,135
{\an8}WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT CRYPTOCURRENCIES
843
00:46:03,135 --> 00:46:05,679
{\an8}Zoe Cash.
We're already at the Zoe market cap,
844
00:46:05,679 --> 00:46:09,767
{\an8}where you can see that today,
we're worth 20 cents of a dollar.
845
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:12,269
[Cositorto] It's our own cryptocurrency,
846
00:46:12,269 --> 00:46:16,899
which we have created
after investing more than $4 million.
847
00:46:17,566 --> 00:46:20,360
They were always advertising
about their growth,
848
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,697
talking about how they were going
to explore other countries
849
00:46:23,697 --> 00:46:25,741
because there were more people interested.
850
00:46:25,741 --> 00:46:28,869
In Australia, in Great Britain, in Italy.
851
00:46:28,869 --> 00:46:31,288
Leo, here are the planes for you.
852
00:46:31,288 --> 00:46:32,247
Here they are.
853
00:46:33,373 --> 00:46:35,834
[Cositorto]
We then opened the Futswap in Sweden,
854
00:46:35,834 --> 00:46:38,796
and we also opened the Miami offices.
855
00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:43,383
{\an8}Leonardo went and bought
soccer teams in Spain,
856
00:46:43,383 --> 00:46:46,470
{\an8}he bought teams in Paraguay,
and in Thailand.
857
00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:48,764
{\an8}We also had Deportivo Español.
858
00:46:48,764 --> 00:46:51,266
{\an8}You must be like a steel door,
a steel arch against goals.
859
00:46:51,266 --> 00:46:52,518
{\an8}MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER
860
00:46:52,518 --> 00:46:54,812
{\an8}If you score two goals or more,
2.4 million.
861
00:46:54,812 --> 00:46:57,231
{\an8}Each of you will take home
a 100,000 pesos.
862
00:46:57,231 --> 00:47:01,068
{\an8}Tomorrow or the day after, you'll get
a virtual wallet with cryptocurrency.
863
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:03,821
You'll have 55,000 pesos there as a gift.
864
00:47:03,821 --> 00:47:06,365
You can save it
because the company will keep it safe,
865
00:47:06,365 --> 00:47:09,034
but if you want
to exchange that for money, you can.
866
00:47:09,034 --> 00:47:12,079
You know what materials are made of?
Raw material, right?
867
00:47:12,704 --> 00:47:16,250
Do you know what the raw material
of things we cannot see is?
868
00:47:16,250 --> 00:47:17,584
Faith!
869
00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:20,838
Faith is the substance
of all we cannot see.
870
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:24,091
We've won this game
even before it's begun, okay?
871
00:47:24,091 --> 00:47:26,552
Then we opened Zoe Paradise.
872
00:47:26,552 --> 00:47:28,637
WE ARE CREATING
PARADISE
873
00:47:28,637 --> 00:47:31,682
[Norma] When Zoe Paradise came up,
I was in a group, and Leonardo would say,
874
00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:36,436
"The parcel of land is worth this much
and you can't miss out."
875
00:47:36,436 --> 00:47:39,147
[Cositorto] Hey, how are you?
If you pay for it in cash, it's 54,000.
876
00:47:39,147 --> 00:47:40,440
ZOE PARADISE MEGA PROJECT
877
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,651
And you'll have three parcels
in the metaverse,
878
00:47:42,651 --> 00:47:44,319
which is an investment as well.
879
00:47:44,319 --> 00:47:47,698
You'll see what it generates,
and you'll have first pick.
880
00:47:47,698 --> 00:47:50,367
If you agree, I'll send you to
the payments group
881
00:47:50,367 --> 00:47:52,661
so you can tell us
how you'd like to do it.
882
00:47:52,661 --> 00:47:54,329
[woman] Well, Leo, you tell me.
883
00:47:54,329 --> 00:47:56,874
Is it in cash? In banknotes?
884
00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:58,750
{\an8}This feels like a whirlwind to me,
but oh well.
885
00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:00,168
{\an8}VOICE OF VICTIM
886
00:48:00,168 --> 00:48:03,922
{\an8}I'm following my heart,
and this is where it's taking me.
887
00:48:04,506 --> 00:48:08,677
These are all my savings,
so I'm gonna trust and keep going.
888
00:48:09,553 --> 00:48:12,264
[Cositorto] Zoe Paradise
is a great investment, you'll see.
889
00:48:14,433 --> 00:48:18,770
It was a type of holding company
where you could see that it was not Zoe,
890
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:21,815
but rather a whole lot
of different companies
891
00:48:21,815 --> 00:48:23,442
that were all behind Zoe.
892
00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:26,695
ZOE APPS - ZOE AIRLINE - ZOE WATER
ZOE CAR - ZOE COLLEGE - ZOE DRUGSTORE
893
00:48:26,695 --> 00:48:27,946
ZOE THEATER - ZOE RADIO
894
00:48:27,946 --> 00:48:30,657
We began seeing that we were backed up
895
00:48:30,657 --> 00:48:35,287
by many business deals that provided us
with a sense of security.
896
00:48:43,378 --> 00:48:44,922
[Cositorto] Well, here we go.
897
00:48:44,922 --> 00:48:48,508
We are about to get on the plane
that will take us to Dubai.
898
00:48:49,009 --> 00:48:51,970
It's gonna be a 28-hour flight altogether.
899
00:48:52,512 --> 00:48:53,722
Come on, check it out.
900
00:48:54,723 --> 00:48:57,935
DUBAI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
901
00:48:57,935 --> 00:49:00,062
{\an8}[seabird squawking]
902
00:49:00,062 --> 00:49:01,897
{\an8}[dreamy music playing]
903
00:49:01,897 --> 00:49:05,984
The world is ruled by love,
so never love money and use people.
904
00:49:05,984 --> 00:49:08,904
Because then,
whatever you gain, you will lose.
905
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:12,115
If you do it the other way around,
it will multiply.
906
00:49:12,115 --> 00:49:16,078
Yrimia was the one
who said to base the company in Dubai,
907
00:49:16,078 --> 00:49:19,498
{\an8}because taxes are lower there
than anywhere else in the world.
908
00:49:20,707 --> 00:49:24,294
We came here to set up
the Zoe Dubai company.
909
00:49:24,294 --> 00:49:29,675
And we're also gonna set up Zoe Soccer,
and we want to open up a clinic as well.
910
00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:32,552
[dreamy music playing continuous]
911
00:49:32,552 --> 00:49:34,554
[Maximiliano]
By recommendation of the lawyers,
912
00:49:34,554 --> 00:49:36,264
an accountant, and Yrimia,
913
00:49:36,264 --> 00:49:38,392
Leo needed a trusted person.
914
00:49:38,392 --> 00:49:41,478
When I signed on as vice president,
one of the first things he said to me
915
00:49:41,478 --> 00:49:43,271
was that it wasn't a partnership.
916
00:49:43,271 --> 00:49:46,566
He needed someone he could trust
not to ask him for stocks in the future,
917
00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:49,903
someone who wouldn't ask
for absolutely anything.
918
00:49:51,905 --> 00:49:53,949
Well, here we are in the house
919
00:49:53,949 --> 00:49:57,285
of one of the owners
of a major bank in Dubai.
920
00:49:57,285 --> 00:50:00,205
It's a house with its own private beach.
921
00:50:01,790 --> 00:50:04,418
I just saw Dubai as another experience.
922
00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:07,546
Okay, okay, look at this.
Oh, I don't want to look.
923
00:50:10,173 --> 00:50:13,719
Look at this. Look at what I'm doing!
Look at how we're eating!
924
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,596
You would see them and enjoy it as well
925
00:50:16,596 --> 00:50:18,598
because it was like
you were there with them.
926
00:50:20,726 --> 00:50:25,397
[Cositorto] Out of all of the animals,
leaders should choose to be like camels.
927
00:50:25,897 --> 00:50:28,442
They are the only ones who carry water
928
00:50:28,442 --> 00:50:31,236
so that everyone else
can cross the desert.
929
00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:33,155
[seagulls squawking distantly]
930
00:50:36,074 --> 00:50:38,452
When I told Luis Yrimia, in Dubai,
931
00:50:38,452 --> 00:50:40,996
that it seemed like it would be convenient
932
00:50:40,996 --> 00:50:46,668
{\an8}for the company to buy a gold mine,
he said it was a very smart business idea.
933
00:50:47,252 --> 00:50:52,299
That's when he introduced me to a person
claiming to be the owner of Sol Petróleo.
934
00:50:52,966 --> 00:50:56,511
This person sold me a percentage
of a gold mine in San Juan,
935
00:50:56,511 --> 00:50:58,263
which was called León,
936
00:50:58,263 --> 00:50:59,806
and also another mine.
937
00:50:59,806 --> 00:51:00,724
LEÓN MINE
938
00:51:00,724 --> 00:51:02,976
And they told me that from that moment on,
939
00:51:02,976 --> 00:51:05,896
I would be receiving
a certain quantity of gold.
940
00:51:05,896 --> 00:51:07,522
PLANTING OUR FLAG IN SAN JUAN.
941
00:51:07,522 --> 00:51:10,817
They valued it at about $500,000.
942
00:51:10,817 --> 00:51:12,486
And for us at that time,
943
00:51:12,486 --> 00:51:16,907
500,000 was about
half a day's worth of our resources.
944
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:19,201
The gold mines existed.
945
00:51:19,951 --> 00:51:22,245
I went personally
to the court of the mines
946
00:51:22,245 --> 00:51:24,247
to verify their existence.
947
00:51:24,247 --> 00:51:26,666
I spoke with the judge while I was there,
948
00:51:26,666 --> 00:51:29,628
and the mines were in
good working condition.
949
00:51:29,628 --> 00:51:32,422
And then Cositorto signed a contract.
950
00:51:33,131 --> 00:51:36,510
This stated that he had to make payments
in installments.
951
00:51:36,510 --> 00:51:38,845
And once the final payment was made,
952
00:51:38,845 --> 00:51:43,892
they would transfer the license
to utilize the mine to the Zoe company.
953
00:51:44,392 --> 00:51:46,394
[Cositorto] They laughed in our faces
954
00:51:46,394 --> 00:51:51,983
when we said that we were going
to back up the currency with gold!
955
00:51:51,983 --> 00:51:54,277
Well, tonight, I can declare it!
956
00:51:54,277 --> 00:51:56,947
We will trade Zoe Cash for gold.
957
00:51:56,947 --> 00:52:00,575
One gram, one coin. One gram, one coin.
958
00:52:02,619 --> 00:52:04,162
GET YOUR FREEDOM WITH ZOE CASH
959
00:52:04,162 --> 00:52:07,749
The final thing that we will be doing,
let's just call it the icing on the cake,
960
00:52:07,749 --> 00:52:10,418
is the acquisition of gold mines.
961
00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:12,170
We have secured the first two mines,
962
00:52:12,170 --> 00:52:14,840
and we are also going
to utilize another mine.
963
00:52:15,507 --> 00:52:17,509
Even though we are not
going to be the owners,
964
00:52:17,509 --> 00:52:20,178
we will be given the rights of extraction.
965
00:52:20,178 --> 00:52:24,349
Pretty soon, we will be bringing
a film crew to the mine
966
00:52:24,349 --> 00:52:28,019
to illustrate how we will be extracting
our first grams of gold.
967
00:52:28,019 --> 00:52:30,063
- [man] Bravo!
- [applause]
968
00:52:30,063 --> 00:52:31,189
Thank you very much.
969
00:52:32,858 --> 00:52:34,234
[man] Let's go!
970
00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:36,611
Everything I'm talking about is tangible.
971
00:52:36,611 --> 00:52:38,780
You can see it and you can touch it.
972
00:52:39,739 --> 00:52:40,866
{\an8}DISTRICT ATTORNEY
VILLA MARÍA
973
00:52:40,866 --> 00:52:45,036
{\an8}You cannot buy a gold mine in Argentina.
Not even the area where gold is extracted.
974
00:52:45,036 --> 00:52:47,747
The mines of the most important metals,
such as gold,
975
00:52:47,747 --> 00:52:49,499
belong to the state of Argentina.
976
00:52:50,125 --> 00:52:53,044
There are sometimes concessions
that are granted through bids,
977
00:52:53,044 --> 00:52:55,589
and a percentage
is given to the exploiter,
978
00:52:55,589 --> 00:52:58,383
while the other part
belongs to the state of Argentina.
979
00:52:59,009 --> 00:53:01,928
Yrimia said to me,
"I have an investor from China
980
00:53:01,928 --> 00:53:05,015
willing to invest $100 million
in the company,
981
00:53:05,015 --> 00:53:06,516
in order to exploit the mine."
982
00:53:07,100 --> 00:53:09,561
That way, Zoe Cash
could enter the Chinese market,
983
00:53:09,561 --> 00:53:11,521
and people would be able to buy with it.
984
00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:15,192
I wasn't involved
in the business side of things at all.
985
00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:16,776
[interviewer] Was it all a lie?
986
00:53:17,444 --> 00:53:19,362
That's something only Yrimia knows.
987
00:53:20,530 --> 00:53:24,242
[dramatic music playing]
988
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,460
[water bubbling]
989
00:53:44,679 --> 00:53:47,265
I wanted to tell you
that this Friday and Saturday,
990
00:53:47,265 --> 00:53:48,934
I will be at the ABC Theater.
991
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:51,269
Don't miss it. You and all your friends.
992
00:53:51,269 --> 00:53:55,106
Coaching, mentoring, and the best business
in the world in your hands.
993
00:53:55,106 --> 00:53:56,191
Ciao.
994
00:53:59,194 --> 00:54:05,784
COLOMBIA
NOVEMBER 2021
995
00:54:05,784 --> 00:54:07,702
[faint applause]
996
00:54:07,702 --> 00:54:08,912
[choral singing]
997
00:54:09,621 --> 00:54:11,539
[woman] How are my people doing?
998
00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:14,876
The night has only just begun.
999
00:54:14,876 --> 00:54:16,336
Because after tonight,
1000
00:54:16,336 --> 00:54:19,547
no one will be the same
after leaving this place.
1001
00:54:19,547 --> 00:54:23,260
That's why I'd like to ask
for a huge round of applause
1002
00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:26,263
for someone who has shone
since getting here,
1003
00:54:26,263 --> 00:54:28,473
because everybody loves him.
1004
00:54:28,473 --> 00:54:29,641
Max Batista.
1005
00:54:29,641 --> 00:54:30,642
[applause]
1006
00:54:30,642 --> 00:54:31,643
Maxi! Come here.
1007
00:54:33,728 --> 00:54:34,854
[Maximiliano] Good evening!
1008
00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:39,442
[Cositorto]
We had an 8,000% growth in 2021,
1009
00:54:39,442 --> 00:54:43,446
so our turnover was around
40 to $50 million a month.
1010
00:54:43,446 --> 00:54:47,450
I used to handle a million
or a million and a half dollars each day.
1011
00:54:48,451 --> 00:54:52,080
First, I'd like to thank God
for putting me in this place.
1012
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,249
And second, I'd like to thank Leo.
1013
00:54:56,918 --> 00:55:00,171
[woman] Now, we have another
great inspirational leader,
1014
00:55:00,171 --> 00:55:03,216
who has always been
an important presence to us.
1015
00:55:03,216 --> 00:55:04,217
The founder...
1016
00:55:04,217 --> 00:55:05,552
- The founder...
- ...of Zoe.
1017
00:55:05,552 --> 00:55:07,053
...of Zoe.
1018
00:55:07,053 --> 00:55:08,972
And who's ready today
1019
00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:11,641
to inspire and enchant us.
1020
00:55:11,641 --> 00:55:12,767
One more time.
1021
00:55:12,767 --> 00:55:17,147
[woman] Leo Cositorto, welcome!
1022
00:55:17,147 --> 00:55:18,732
[audience cheers]
1023
00:55:18,732 --> 00:55:21,026
[Cositorto] The company had a tendency
1024
00:55:21,026 --> 00:55:24,362
which was not to multiply by 8,000%,
1025
00:55:24,362 --> 00:55:27,324
but at least by 400%.
1026
00:55:27,324 --> 00:55:32,495
So that means that, at that time,
we would make about $2 billion.
1027
00:55:33,246 --> 00:55:36,082
Any Colombians in the house?
1028
00:55:36,082 --> 00:55:37,500
[crowd cheers]
1029
00:55:37,500 --> 00:55:39,544
Long live Colombia!
1030
00:55:40,378 --> 00:55:42,964
It wasn't a unicorn, but a double unicorn.
1031
00:55:42,964 --> 00:55:45,216
And we're talking about a global scale.
1032
00:55:45,216 --> 00:55:47,927
[upbeat music playing]
1033
00:55:47,927 --> 00:55:52,807
[Cositorto] Today, we have 64 offices
throughout the world.
1034
00:55:55,226 --> 00:55:56,770
And this month,
1035
00:55:56,770 --> 00:55:58,480
we have transferred
1036
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:02,567
more than $20 million as earnings
1037
00:56:02,567 --> 00:56:05,987
into the hands of the associates
1038
00:56:05,987 --> 00:56:07,697
and members of Zoe.
1039
00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:09,157
And today,
1040
00:56:09,157 --> 00:56:13,703
we are 58,000 people worldwide!
1041
00:56:16,873 --> 00:56:19,000
Look at what we're doing here.
1042
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,878
We'll need a coliseum next time, won't we?
1043
00:56:22,545 --> 00:56:27,467
In the next few years
we are going to create movements!
1044
00:56:27,467 --> 00:56:31,012
Civil movements and political movements,
1045
00:56:31,012 --> 00:56:36,559
so that tomorrow we can lead one,
two three, four, five, six countries
1046
00:56:36,559 --> 00:56:38,478
throughout Latin America.
1047
00:56:41,523 --> 00:56:42,816
I'll close with this.
1048
00:56:44,025 --> 00:56:47,362
There's a journalist from Villa María.
1049
00:56:47,362 --> 00:56:49,280
His name is Sergio.
1050
00:56:50,949 --> 00:56:55,703
He sends an email because he begins
noticing that, in Villa María,
1051
00:56:55,703 --> 00:56:59,290
people are leaving their traditional jobs.
1052
00:56:59,290 --> 00:57:02,669
A secretary, an employee at a bank,
1053
00:57:02,669 --> 00:57:08,341
they are leaving their old jobs
that paid $200, $300 a month,
1054
00:57:08,341 --> 00:57:09,384
to do what?
1055
00:57:09,384 --> 00:57:10,593
[audience] To work for Zoe!
1056
00:57:10,593 --> 00:57:12,303
And what's the problem?
1057
00:57:12,887 --> 00:57:16,975
I am not afraid of any man!
1058
00:57:16,975 --> 00:57:19,269
I fear no man!
1059
00:57:19,269 --> 00:57:20,770
[audience cheers]
1060
00:57:20,770 --> 00:57:25,775
I will only get down
on my knees before God.
1061
00:57:25,775 --> 00:57:27,318
[cheering continuous]
1062
00:57:28,069 --> 00:57:31,531
Jesus said,
"And you will do greater things!"
1063
00:57:31,531 --> 00:57:34,534
What we have accomplished
together as a team,
1064
00:57:34,534 --> 00:57:37,579
are things that not even
the Lord accomplished
1065
00:57:37,579 --> 00:57:39,581
when he was on this earth,
1066
00:57:39,581 --> 00:57:43,042
But he promised us
that we would accomplish what?
1067
00:57:43,042 --> 00:57:44,335
Greater things!
1068
00:57:44,335 --> 00:57:47,255
And it's true, greater things are coming!
1069
00:57:48,465 --> 00:57:50,133
[typing]
1070
00:57:52,343 --> 00:57:55,305
UNMASKING A PYRAMID SCHEME
1071
00:57:56,264 --> 00:57:59,225
Beto Mendeleiev,
which is obviously an alias.
1072
00:57:59,225 --> 00:58:02,770
I never found out who he was,
and I also never asked.
1073
00:58:02,770 --> 00:58:05,064
He was a Twitter user
who began exposing Generation Zoe...
1074
00:58:05,064 --> 00:58:05,982
#ZOESCAM
1075
00:58:05,982 --> 00:58:08,359
...around October 2021.
1076
00:58:08,359 --> 00:58:10,737
{\an8}He didn't have many followers at the time.
1077
00:58:10,737 --> 00:58:12,113
{\an8}COMPUTER SCIENTIST
1078
00:58:12,113 --> 00:58:16,367
{\an8}I think I remember seeing something,
but didn't think much of it then.
1079
00:58:16,367 --> 00:58:19,454
I was busy with other things,
like work and such.
1080
00:58:22,499 --> 00:58:25,460
I've worked in research
and computer science
1081
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:27,712
for about three decades now.
1082
00:58:27,712 --> 00:58:30,340
And in my free time, as a hobby,
I tweet a lot.
1083
00:58:32,133 --> 00:58:35,011
I had already seen
quite a few scams around.
1084
00:58:35,011 --> 00:58:37,597
They were supposedly
wonderful business deals
1085
00:58:37,597 --> 00:58:41,684
{\an8}based on cryptocurrency
and other trendy things.
1086
00:58:41,684 --> 00:58:46,231
I then stumbled across something
called Generation Zoe,
1087
00:58:46,231 --> 00:58:49,025
which turned out to be quite entertaining.
1088
00:58:49,025 --> 00:58:51,611
Don't sell your house to invest.
1089
00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:55,198
Just put in 500 or a thousand dollars.
1090
00:58:55,198 --> 00:58:57,450
Are you broke? Sell the dog!
1091
00:58:57,450 --> 00:58:59,285
[Javier] When I started seeing all this
1092
00:58:59,285 --> 00:59:01,788
and learning about the world
of Generation Zoe,
1093
00:59:02,372 --> 00:59:05,500
I was obviously drawn
to Leonardo Cositorto's persona.
1094
00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:08,586
And I thought,
"Where did this guy come from? Who is he?"
1095
00:59:09,879 --> 00:59:12,423
And, as I was looking into his history,
1096
00:59:13,007 --> 00:59:15,885
{\an8}t turns out that his father
had been a businessman
1097
00:59:16,553 --> 00:59:17,887
{\an8}in the publishing business.
1098
00:59:18,513 --> 00:59:21,975
{\an8}And then at some point,
back around the early '80s,
1099
00:59:22,559 --> 00:59:24,143
he went completely bankrupt.
1100
00:59:24,852 --> 00:59:27,897
So he then found his way
out of this situation
1101
00:59:27,897 --> 00:59:30,858
by going out to the streets to sell books.
1102
00:59:30,858 --> 00:59:36,322
And he would take Leonardo Cositorto
and his brother Guillermo along with him.
1103
00:59:37,323 --> 00:59:40,159
So that was how
Leonardo Cositorto learned,
1104
00:59:40,159 --> 00:59:44,789
or better yet, he developed
all of his skills as a direct salesman.
1105
00:59:45,456 --> 00:59:48,710
He did it with street sales
by going door to door.
1106
00:59:48,710 --> 00:59:50,878
[Cositorto] Hey, you're a cop, right?
1107
00:59:51,629 --> 00:59:52,589
[man] Yes, sir.
1108
00:59:52,589 --> 00:59:54,382
[Cositorto] We're having a clearance sale.
1109
00:59:54,382 --> 00:59:55,883
[man] Sales aren't allowed here.
1110
00:59:55,883 --> 00:59:58,011
Got it. Don't be mad.
I'm sorry, I didn't know.
1111
00:59:58,011 --> 01:00:00,013
I'll speak to the manager right now.
1112
01:00:00,013 --> 01:00:03,224
I thought this was all legal.
Is the police station near here?
1113
01:00:03,224 --> 01:00:04,434
Two blocks to the left.
1114
01:00:04,434 --> 01:00:05,435
- To the left?
- Yes.
1115
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:06,811
- Two blocks away?
- That way.
1116
01:00:06,811 --> 01:00:08,187
And you're Corporal Flores?
1117
01:00:08,187 --> 01:00:10,440
- How did you know?
- Oh, because of the badge.
1118
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,734
- Thank you. I apologize.
- It's okay. Now you know.
1119
01:00:12,734 --> 01:00:14,986
Come on, let's go
to the police station now.
1120
01:00:15,903 --> 01:00:17,989
Good morning. Is this the police station?
1121
01:00:17,989 --> 01:00:20,491
Corporal Flores sent me.
We're having a sale.
1122
01:00:20,491 --> 01:00:21,409
[attendees laugh]
1123
01:00:21,409 --> 01:00:23,536
- He said-- He told me that...
- [laughter and applause]
1124
01:00:24,203 --> 01:00:25,204
Good.
1125
01:00:25,204 --> 01:00:26,372
[Javier] In the '90s,
1126
01:00:26,372 --> 01:00:29,500
Cositorto was basically
a trainer for salespeople.
1127
01:00:29,500 --> 01:00:31,336
He was like a chameleon.
1128
01:00:31,336 --> 01:00:33,796
He would speak differently to each person
1129
01:00:33,796 --> 01:00:36,674
depending on the moment
or place he was in.
1130
01:00:36,674 --> 01:00:40,178
But no matter what,
he always had the same speech.
1131
01:00:40,178 --> 01:00:42,221
It was about being a revolutionary,
1132
01:00:42,221 --> 01:00:45,975
and a successful businessman
who would transform the economy
1133
01:00:45,975 --> 01:00:48,811
and create a generation of millionaires.
1134
01:00:50,355 --> 01:00:54,067
And at some point, he also dipped his toes
in the world of evangelism.
1135
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:58,571
[Cositorto] He gives and sometimes,
what does He do? He takes.
1136
01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:01,824
And He takes in order to do what?
Give again. He gives to...
1137
01:01:01,824 --> 01:01:06,204
Basically, what the Catholic Church says
is that if you're poor,
1138
01:01:06,204 --> 01:01:07,538
that's a good thing.
1139
01:01:07,538 --> 01:01:09,916
The theology of prosperity, however,
1140
01:01:09,916 --> 01:01:12,627
says that God actually
wants you to be wealthy.
1141
01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:15,880
You're poor because
you're at odds with God.
1142
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:20,134
Get on your knees if necessary
in the name of Jesus,
1143
01:01:20,134 --> 01:01:21,511
with all of your heart.
1144
01:01:22,470 --> 01:01:27,308
♪ There's no place higher ♪
1145
01:01:28,351 --> 01:01:33,356
♪ Or greater than being at your feet ♪
1146
01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:36,818
♪ Than being at your feet ♪
1147
01:01:36,818 --> 01:01:40,613
At first, it was difficult to believe
that it was true.
1148
01:01:40,613 --> 01:01:43,783
How was it possible for someone
to give so much of their money
1149
01:01:43,783 --> 01:01:48,162
to these people who were basically
just door-to-door salesmen?
1150
01:01:48,162 --> 01:01:50,039
[rock music playing]
1151
01:01:53,167 --> 01:01:58,840
{\an8}DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
1152
01:02:03,511 --> 01:02:05,304
[Juliana]
I'd just gotten back from vacation.
1153
01:02:05,304 --> 01:02:06,597
It had been a long year.
1154
01:02:06,597 --> 01:02:08,891
On my first day back,
I was given papers and told,
1155
01:02:08,891 --> 01:02:10,852
"This is Leonardo Cositorto."
1156
01:02:13,646 --> 01:02:15,231
{\an8}My name is Juliana Companys.
1157
01:02:15,231 --> 01:02:17,984
{\an8}I'm the district attorney
in the city of Villa María,
1158
01:02:17,984 --> 01:02:19,736
{\an8}in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.
1159
01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:25,366
My legal secretary, Florencia Bortolussi,
1160
01:02:25,366 --> 01:02:28,828
and my employees Alejandro Bianco
and Germán Livingston,
1161
01:02:28,828 --> 01:02:31,664
came up to me and asked me
to look at something.
1162
01:02:31,664 --> 01:02:34,250
They showed me some papers
that said "Zoe" on them,
1163
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,252
and I asked what that was.
1164
01:02:36,919 --> 01:02:40,506
She told me they'd been investigating them
because they'd noticed,
1165
01:02:40,506 --> 01:02:42,216
through social media,
1166
01:02:42,216 --> 01:02:46,596
that this scam was exactly the same
as the one with Soluciones Diarias,
1167
01:02:47,221 --> 01:02:49,766
{\an8}which had happened
five years prior in Villa María.
1168
01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:52,226
[dramatic music playing]
1169
01:02:52,226 --> 01:02:56,314
As we were in the middle of it,
I said we had to build a strong case,
1170
01:02:56,314 --> 01:02:59,942
create some structure
because we didn't have any victims yet.
1171
01:03:00,818 --> 01:03:02,945
That's when a call
comes through to the court
1172
01:03:02,945 --> 01:03:05,698
in which they alert us
of the exact same thing.
1173
01:03:10,578 --> 01:03:13,289
We thought Zoe
was a fixed-income security.
1174
01:03:15,082 --> 01:03:19,337
This happens a lot in Villa María
because there's a lot of purchasing power,
1175
01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:22,256
especially from people
with undeclared income.
1176
01:03:22,256 --> 01:03:26,385
They invest in illegal fixed-income
securities for a certain percentage,
1177
01:03:26,385 --> 01:03:28,429
then their money is loaned out
and so forth.
1178
01:03:29,013 --> 01:03:33,976
So that's when I told Alejandro Bianco
to go to Zoe, here in Villa María,
1179
01:03:33,976 --> 01:03:35,812
and to ask them for a loan.
1180
01:03:38,022 --> 01:03:40,900
He described it
as some sort of super office,
1181
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:43,402
at least according
to Villa María standards.
1182
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:47,824
"There are lots of computers, Doc,
and they're all typing nonstop,
1183
01:03:47,824 --> 01:03:49,408
like tap, tap, tap."
1184
01:03:49,408 --> 01:03:51,869
"They took me to the back,
where they had some chairs,
1185
01:03:51,869 --> 01:03:53,830
and everyone was drinking coffee."
1186
01:03:54,330 --> 01:03:55,915
"They gave me coffee as well."
1187
01:03:55,915 --> 01:03:57,917
"The office was really top-notch."
1188
01:03:57,917 --> 01:03:59,627
"There's clearly lots of money there."
1189
01:04:02,004 --> 01:04:03,965
He asks them for the loan,
1190
01:04:03,965 --> 01:04:06,467
and they tell him
that they didn't do that there.
1191
01:04:07,802 --> 01:04:10,763
They said that he had to invest $500
1192
01:04:10,763 --> 01:04:14,934
in order for him
to obtain a 7.5% profitability.
1193
01:04:14,934 --> 01:04:17,937
And if he brought in
his family members as well,
1194
01:04:17,937 --> 01:04:21,482
that would add 20% more
per every family member.
1195
01:04:22,650 --> 01:04:23,484
[inaudible]
1196
01:04:23,484 --> 01:04:27,530
When he comes back, he tells me
it wasn't a fixed-income security.
1197
01:04:27,530 --> 01:04:29,657
It was a really bad pyramid scheme.
1198
01:04:31,158 --> 01:04:34,537
According to our penal code,
in order for a crime to exist,
1199
01:04:34,537 --> 01:04:37,248
there has to be a victim of these scams.
1200
01:04:37,248 --> 01:04:40,126
We figured we'd have to wait
for a victim to show up.
1201
01:04:40,751 --> 01:04:43,087
WHY WOULD YOU GIVE MONEY
TO A GUY NAMED COSITORTO?
1202
01:04:43,087 --> 01:04:44,130
[computer whistles]
1203
01:04:44,130 --> 01:04:46,549
What first caught my attention
1204
01:04:46,549 --> 01:04:50,761
was the disproportionate
and ridiculous nature
1205
01:04:50,761 --> 01:04:52,680
of Zoe's economic offer.
1206
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:58,728
How could a company possibly guarantee
a monthly 7.5% profitability in dollars?
1207
01:05:00,187 --> 01:05:03,649
It was clear to me that it was
destined to collapse eventually.
1208
01:05:03,649 --> 01:05:06,652
[intriguing music playing]
1209
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:11,657
[Juliana]
Florencia warned me that, on Twitter,
1210
01:05:11,657 --> 01:05:15,119
there were two or three users
talking about Cositorto
1211
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:18,039
and suggesting
that this was all a pyramid scheme.
1212
01:05:18,789 --> 01:05:19,916
[computer whistles]
1213
01:05:19,916 --> 01:05:22,835
THEY ASK WHAT ZOE IS.
LIKE THE MATRIX, BUT COSITORTO'S VERSION.
1214
01:05:22,835 --> 01:05:27,632
It has happened to me before,
and also in this case specifically,
1215
01:05:27,632 --> 01:05:29,425
that when I take on a subject,
1216
01:05:29,425 --> 01:05:32,803
I suddenly become
a point of reference in regards to it,
1217
01:05:32,803 --> 01:05:37,808
and that often creates space for others
to contact me and pass on information.
1218
01:05:37,808 --> 01:05:40,019
THE SHARP LIVES OFF FOOLS,
FOOLS LIVE OFF THEIR WORK
1219
01:05:40,019 --> 01:05:44,774
We obviously saw all of the tweets,
and we were extremely outraged.
1220
01:05:44,774 --> 01:05:46,275
We were all very angry.
1221
01:05:47,193 --> 01:05:49,487
Our question was, how do they know?
1222
01:05:49,487 --> 01:05:52,198
Who are the people
feeding them this information?
1223
01:05:52,198 --> 01:05:53,574
And why are they here?
1224
01:05:53,574 --> 01:05:54,575
[computer whistles]
1225
01:05:54,575 --> 01:05:56,452
WHOEVER PAID IN USD WILL RECEIVE ZOE CASH
1226
01:05:56,452 --> 01:06:00,873
It was all about following Cositorto's
daily footsteps through Twitter,
1227
01:06:00,873 --> 01:06:04,460
and identifying who was who,
and how they operated.
1228
01:06:06,379 --> 01:06:09,966
[Sergio] When my friends on Twitter
started tweeting things out,
1229
01:06:10,591 --> 01:06:13,094
I began supporting all of their comments,
1230
01:06:13,094 --> 01:06:15,554
and I found support from them as well.
1231
01:06:15,554 --> 01:06:18,599
It was like,
"Okay, let's keep going. I'm not alone."
1232
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:20,726
[dramatic music playing]
1233
01:06:22,061 --> 01:06:26,482
I became the villain in the story.
People had a lot of faith in Cositorto.
1234
01:06:30,778 --> 01:06:34,031
[Cositorto] Hello, Sergio.
I think what you're doing is shameful.
1235
01:06:34,532 --> 01:06:38,202
You have shown no mercy,
and you refuse to reap what you sowed.
1236
01:06:38,202 --> 01:06:40,246
You caused me some serious damage
1237
01:06:40,246 --> 01:06:44,750
because you're manipulating people
through a newspaper that, I suppose,
1238
01:06:44,750 --> 01:06:46,502
makes you feel powerful.
1239
01:06:46,502 --> 01:06:49,380
Unfortunately,
I will have to take judicial action
1240
01:06:49,380 --> 01:06:53,217
against your newspaper,
against you, and your co-op.
1241
01:06:53,217 --> 01:06:55,928
Don't take this as a threat.
It's my right to do so.
1242
01:06:56,887 --> 01:06:58,556
[Sergio] He was very aggressive,
1243
01:06:58,556 --> 01:07:01,726
and he said things
that were frankly out of line
1244
01:07:01,726 --> 01:07:03,811
because I was just doing my job.
1245
01:07:03,811 --> 01:07:07,606
Meanwhile, he would go to the media
and say the exact opposite.
1246
01:07:07,606 --> 01:07:11,527
Most of the schools are just
coaching schools, which is great.
1247
01:07:11,527 --> 01:07:15,281
But they were also designed
and created in the last century.
1248
01:07:15,281 --> 01:07:17,950
{\an8}It would be a milestone
in the crypto world,
1249
01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:20,911
{\an8}since currency is driven
by usability and trust.
1250
01:07:21,579 --> 01:07:25,708
{\an8}[Mirian] When I first started seeing Leo
doing interviews on television stations,
1251
01:07:26,333 --> 01:07:27,626
I was ecstatic.
1252
01:07:27,626 --> 01:07:30,713
I was like, "Look at our leader,
look at our director."
1253
01:07:30,713 --> 01:07:34,508
"There he is! Look, Mom!
Change the channel, that's him!"
1254
01:07:34,508 --> 01:07:35,843
He would keep going.
1255
01:07:35,843 --> 01:07:39,305
He'd buy pages in big Argentinian papers,
and people would think,
1256
01:07:39,305 --> 01:07:43,017
"Look, if El Diario Argentino,
which is huge, is saying this,
1257
01:07:43,017 --> 01:07:45,186
why believe the Villa María newspaper?"
1258
01:07:45,311 --> 01:07:46,645
SPONSORED CONTENT
1259
01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:51,192
GENERATION ZOE WAS LICENSED
BY THE NATIONAL SECURITIES COMMISSION
1260
01:07:51,192 --> 01:07:53,319
I developed a robot.
1261
01:07:53,319 --> 01:07:55,237
[upbeat techno music playing]
1262
01:07:57,239 --> 01:08:00,076
{\an8}And a robot is nothing other than a system
1263
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:05,247
{\an8}made up of signals responding
to mathematical and statistical models,
1264
01:08:05,247 --> 01:08:08,292
to predict how high
and how low the market will go.
1265
01:08:08,292 --> 01:08:10,336
{\an8}ZOE
ROBOT
1266
01:08:13,005 --> 01:08:15,257
Rosa María was promising strong bots,
1267
01:08:15,257 --> 01:08:17,718
and that's when I started
to disagree with him.
1268
01:08:17,718 --> 01:08:21,806
I said, "Leonardo, let's stick
to 7.5% profitability."
1269
01:08:21,806 --> 01:08:23,516
"Let's not go higher."
1270
01:08:23,516 --> 01:08:26,060
That's when he said,
"I am the owner of this company,
1271
01:08:26,060 --> 01:08:27,436
so I'll handle it."
1272
01:08:27,436 --> 01:08:29,355
"If I were to make decisions
like you would,
1273
01:08:29,355 --> 01:08:30,606
the company would be done."
1274
01:08:30,606 --> 01:08:33,526
"That's why I'm the owner and you're not."
1275
01:08:33,526 --> 01:08:34,610
[computer whistles]
1276
01:08:34,610 --> 01:08:36,612
CHRISTMAS ROBOT
DECEMBER 6TH THROUGH 13TH
1277
01:08:36,612 --> 01:08:40,157
[Javier] In December 2021,
they launched the last great investment,
1278
01:08:40,157 --> 01:08:41,992
the infamous Christmas bot,
1279
01:08:41,992 --> 01:08:46,372
which would supposedly duplicate
all of your money in just three months.
1280
01:08:46,372 --> 01:08:49,125
So that's when
an avalanche of money came in.
1281
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,293
[somber organ music playing]
1282
01:08:51,293 --> 01:08:56,924
[Belén] Just imagine, it was December.
Christmas bonuses, New Year's, holidays.
1283
01:08:56,924 --> 01:08:58,425
People were desperate.
1284
01:08:58,425 --> 01:09:02,138
I think that must have been
the biggest fund collection
1285
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:04,557
that Zoe ever had with any bots.
1286
01:09:05,558 --> 01:09:06,725
That was it.
1287
01:09:06,725 --> 01:09:10,104
A snowball that kept growing
as he promised more and more.
1288
01:09:10,104 --> 01:09:12,898
And people kept on believing him.
1289
01:09:12,898 --> 01:09:18,320
[Belén] More and more illusion,
more fantasy, more wanting, more and more.
1290
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:19,738
It was like a balloon.
1291
01:09:19,738 --> 01:09:22,908
It just kept growing and growing, until...
1292
01:09:24,326 --> 01:09:25,161
it exploded.
1293
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:32,251
[tape rewinding]
1294
01:09:34,336 --> 01:09:35,963
[wind blowing faintly]
1295
01:09:41,594 --> 01:09:45,639
[somber organ music playing]
1296
01:09:45,639 --> 01:09:47,892
[Cositorto]
While on the cross, Jesus said,
1297
01:09:47,892 --> 01:09:51,896
"Forgive them, Father,
for they know not what they are doing."
1298
01:09:51,896 --> 01:09:55,566
I could open Twitter right now
and read ten atrocities,
1299
01:09:55,566 --> 01:09:57,693
just read them, and that's it.
1300
01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:02,198
FUNNY THING ABOUT PYRAMID SCHEMES IS,
SOME PEOPLE DO GET EARNINGS.
1301
01:10:02,198 --> 01:10:05,784
Many of our tweets were being written
with a large dose of humor.
1302
01:10:06,619 --> 01:10:09,747
It was never about
making fun of any of the victims.
1303
01:10:10,247 --> 01:10:12,416
It was only about ridiculing him.
1304
01:10:12,416 --> 01:10:13,334
[clucking]
1305
01:10:13,334 --> 01:10:15,211
COSITORTO IS THE HEN
THAT LAYS GOLDEN EGGS.
1306
01:10:15,211 --> 01:10:17,546
Almost all of the material
we would publish
1307
01:10:17,546 --> 01:10:20,507
was made up of footage
produced by them directly.
1308
01:10:21,091 --> 01:10:22,968
{\an8}We would obviously record
the Zoom meetings
1309
01:10:22,968 --> 01:10:26,472
that Leonardo Cositorto
would have every single night,
1310
01:10:26,472 --> 01:10:30,351
during which he would mostly complain
about paid Twitter users
1311
01:10:30,351 --> 01:10:33,145
that were supposedly financed
by the hidden powers
1312
01:10:33,145 --> 01:10:35,022
that intended to destroy Zoe.
1313
01:10:35,022 --> 01:10:37,233
This is just their style.
1314
01:10:37,233 --> 01:10:40,277
These characters
paid for by God knows who.
1315
01:10:40,277 --> 01:10:42,238
They even have bots activated,
1316
01:10:42,238 --> 01:10:47,117
creating campaigns to spread information
on social media and Twitter.
1317
01:10:48,077 --> 01:10:49,286
[Mirian] It really bothered me
1318
01:10:49,286 --> 01:10:52,623
because they were messing with something
that was supposed to be ours.
1319
01:10:52,623 --> 01:10:53,666
We took it personally.
1320
01:10:55,251 --> 01:10:57,461
We started communicating
amongst ourselves.
1321
01:10:58,295 --> 01:10:59,630
And then, little by little,
1322
01:10:59,630 --> 01:11:02,424
we built up what we decided
to call a "Twitter troop."
1323
01:11:02,424 --> 01:11:03,342
I'M 100% ZOE
1324
01:11:03,342 --> 01:11:06,428
Our troop would basically
create strategic plans,
1325
01:11:06,428 --> 01:11:08,264
and we would tweet
in the middle of the night...
1326
01:11:08,264 --> 01:11:10,307
#ZOERESIST
#BESTRONGZOE - #WEAREALLZOE
1327
01:11:10,307 --> 01:11:14,103
...before anybody else was tweeting
so it would gain visibility more easily.
1328
01:11:14,103 --> 01:11:17,731
We needed to defend the place
that we all had invested in
1329
01:11:17,731 --> 01:11:20,276
because if things went badly
for the company,
1330
01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:22,653
things would eventually
go badly for us too.
1331
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:23,696
[computer whistles]
1332
01:11:23,696 --> 01:11:26,031
#DONOTMESSWITHZOE
1333
01:11:27,074 --> 01:11:31,453
JANUARY 2022
1334
01:11:31,453 --> 01:11:32,955
[inaudible]
1335
01:11:33,789 --> 01:11:35,249
[Belén] Around mid-January,
1336
01:11:35,249 --> 01:11:38,502
people obviously came over
to ask about their money.
1337
01:11:38,502 --> 01:11:41,755
They wanted to withdraw their money,
and it wasn't there.
1338
01:11:41,755 --> 01:11:43,966
And we were the ones who had to face them.
1339
01:11:45,342 --> 01:11:48,929
The thing that really began
to make the entire structure fall apart
1340
01:11:48,929 --> 01:11:50,973
was that infamous Christmas bot.
1341
01:11:50,973 --> 01:11:53,434
[dramatic music playing]
1342
01:11:53,434 --> 01:11:56,186
When the time came
to begin making those payments,
1343
01:11:56,186 --> 01:11:57,855
the money was gone.
1344
01:11:57,855 --> 01:11:59,732
Everybody wanted to cash out,
1345
01:11:59,732 --> 01:12:02,985
but the money was all invested
in different kinds of businesses,
1346
01:12:02,985 --> 01:12:05,154
in lots of different places.
1347
01:12:06,322 --> 01:12:09,033
[Belén] There was someone
who I really trusted there,
1348
01:12:09,033 --> 01:12:11,201
so I went to him and I said,
1349
01:12:11,201 --> 01:12:12,619
"Tell me the truth,
1350
01:12:12,619 --> 01:12:16,749
because I'm the one facing people
and putting myself on the line."
1351
01:12:16,749 --> 01:12:19,585
And he said, "You deserve the truth."
1352
01:12:19,585 --> 01:12:22,755
That's when he told me
that the money was gone.
1353
01:12:22,755 --> 01:12:27,259
They couldn't find the money.
They didn't know what had happened.
1354
01:12:28,510 --> 01:12:31,889
I opened the administration
group chat on WhatsApp,
1355
01:12:31,889 --> 01:12:35,392
which included Cositorto
and his right-hand men.
1356
01:12:35,392 --> 01:12:37,102
And I demanded an explanation.
1357
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,314
And the administration said,
1358
01:12:40,314 --> 01:12:43,567
"Keep pushing people to invest.
Let's stick with the bots."
1359
01:12:43,567 --> 01:12:45,903
"Keep telling people to give their money."
1360
01:12:46,904 --> 01:12:49,531
For goodness' sake, answer my question.
1361
01:12:52,159 --> 01:12:55,579
I sent them an audio message
where I called them shameless,
1362
01:12:55,579 --> 01:12:59,166
and warned them
that I'd tell people what was going on.
1363
01:12:59,166 --> 01:13:02,378
So they kicked me out
of the administration group chat.
1364
01:13:02,378 --> 01:13:04,922
They kicked me out of all the group chats.
1365
01:13:04,922 --> 01:13:07,800
And that's when I sent
my crazy voice messages
1366
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:09,635
to the entire community.
1367
01:13:09,635 --> 01:13:11,887
The only culprit here is Cositorto.
1368
01:13:11,887 --> 01:13:13,055
He's got all the dough.
1369
01:13:13,055 --> 01:13:15,432
I've got voice messages
from the vice president
1370
01:13:15,432 --> 01:13:18,060
saying that Leo's the one
with all the cash flow.
1371
01:13:18,060 --> 01:13:18,977
THIEVES!
1372
01:13:18,977 --> 01:13:20,521
He's the one that has to pay!
1373
01:13:21,105 --> 01:13:22,272
{\an8}JANUARY 8, 2022
1374
01:13:22,272 --> 01:13:25,234
{\an8}Team, we're leaving.
Here comes Maxi. We're off to Uruguay.
1375
01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:28,570
{\an8}From Uruguay to Buenos Aires,
from Buenos Aires to Mexico,
1376
01:13:28,570 --> 01:13:32,408
{\an8}from Mexico to Colombia,
and from Colombia to Buenos Aires.
1377
01:13:32,408 --> 01:13:34,743
{\an8}The year's begun. Fasten your seat belts.
1378
01:13:35,327 --> 01:13:36,662
{\an8}Maxi, come say hi!
1379
01:13:37,162 --> 01:13:40,416
{\an8}[Juliana] I can't remember
which Twitter user in particular
1380
01:13:40,416 --> 01:13:43,877
{\an8}uploaded the video in which they're seen
boarding the private jet plane
1381
01:13:43,877 --> 01:13:45,421
{\an8}going to Uruguay.
1382
01:13:45,421 --> 01:13:49,049
{\an8}So we got to see them, and had that image
of them leaving the country.
1383
01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:50,717
[buzzes]
1384
01:13:50,717 --> 01:13:52,719
[whirring]
1385
01:13:57,057 --> 01:14:02,438
ZOE LEADER LEFT THE COUNTRY
WILL HE COME BACK?
1386
01:14:02,438 --> 01:14:05,315
[dramatic music playing]
1387
01:14:11,613 --> 01:14:14,032
[Cositorto] Hello, team,
I just wanted to come by
1388
01:14:14,032 --> 01:14:16,994
and greet you here from Santo Domingo.
1389
01:14:18,162 --> 01:14:21,415
The attacks against myself
and the organization
1390
01:14:21,415 --> 01:14:23,417
have continued since this morning.
1391
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:27,754
You know that these are coming
from a model that has collapsed.
1392
01:14:27,754 --> 01:14:30,424
Their system resists and does not allow
1393
01:14:30,424 --> 01:14:34,219
for a new business model
of entrepreneurship like ours to run.
1394
01:14:34,219 --> 01:14:39,349
We're not gonna stop planting seeds
and sharing opportunities with each other.
1395
01:14:39,349 --> 01:14:43,729
It is important that we understand
and support each other,
1396
01:14:43,729 --> 01:14:46,315
so that we can take steps forward
as a community,
1397
01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:48,400
strengthening the organization.
1398
01:14:49,735 --> 01:14:54,740
At that point, we were still trusting Leo,
listening to his side of the story,
1399
01:14:54,740 --> 01:14:56,867
and taking his words into account.
1400
01:14:56,867 --> 01:14:58,660
He urged us to stay together.
1401
01:14:58,660 --> 01:15:02,164
He said that they were trying to divide us
and destroy the company,
1402
01:15:02,164 --> 01:15:05,542
and he said that this was expected
in the short term.
1403
01:15:05,542 --> 01:15:07,753
But he said that we should be patient,
1404
01:15:07,753 --> 01:15:09,588
so up until that moment,
1405
01:15:09,588 --> 01:15:12,925
we were still defending and supporting
the entire community.
1406
01:15:12,925 --> 01:15:14,301
[crickets chirping]
1407
01:15:14,301 --> 01:15:16,178
[Cositorto] Good evening, everyone.
1408
01:15:16,178 --> 01:15:18,096
Thank you for being online,
1409
01:15:18,096 --> 01:15:20,057
and for responding to the call.
1410
01:15:20,599 --> 01:15:24,561
We have around
8,000 to 9,000 people so far.
1411
01:15:24,561 --> 01:15:26,146
Amidst these circumstances,
1412
01:15:26,146 --> 01:15:29,650
it is extremely important
for all of you to see
1413
01:15:29,650 --> 01:15:33,403
how we respond
to these taunts and systemic attacks.
1414
01:15:34,112 --> 01:15:38,242
For example, right now
there's a man on Argentina's social media
1415
01:15:38,242 --> 01:15:40,744
whose name is Beto, supposedly.
1416
01:15:40,744 --> 01:15:44,289
You can see how he's using
a fake profile picture.
1417
01:15:44,998 --> 01:15:47,668
This is what he's posting right now,
1418
01:15:47,668 --> 01:15:49,503
and he's here on the Zoom call.
1419
01:15:49,503 --> 01:15:52,297
You have no idea who you're engaging with.
1420
01:15:52,297 --> 01:15:55,551
We should all learn
about the word "relationship."
1421
01:15:55,551 --> 01:15:58,887
Primarily you, Beto,
if that's even your real name.
1422
01:15:58,887 --> 01:16:02,432
You should learn how to relate
with your inner self
1423
01:16:02,432 --> 01:16:04,476
and heal this hatred inside you,
1424
01:16:04,476 --> 01:16:07,437
which is sending a growing company to shit
1425
01:16:07,437 --> 01:16:09,106
with your crappy ways.
1426
01:16:09,106 --> 01:16:13,569
You've sold yourself to the powers that be
for who knows how much money.
1427
01:16:13,569 --> 01:16:17,614
And to all these newspapers
and journalists that are angry at the fact
1428
01:16:17,614 --> 01:16:20,909
that a new generation
was born into the world.
1429
01:16:20,909 --> 01:16:22,536
[rock music playing]
1430
01:16:22,536 --> 01:16:25,789
{\an8}What's behind this cryptocurrency pastor?
Something? Or nothing at all?
1431
01:16:25,789 --> 01:16:27,666
{\an8}COSITORTO IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTROVERSY
1432
01:16:27,666 --> 01:16:29,835
{\an8}[Mirian] It became more and more frequent,
1433
01:16:29,835 --> 01:16:32,170
{\an8}until it got to a point
where Generation Zoe
1434
01:16:32,170 --> 01:16:33,505
{\an8}was mentioned every day.
1435
01:16:33,505 --> 01:16:37,384
{\an8}It felt like Generation Zoe was being
called out a thousand times a day,
1436
01:16:37,384 --> 01:16:39,386
along with Leonardo Cositorto.
1437
01:16:40,220 --> 01:16:45,100
He set up a gigantic machine
of scams through Generation Zoe.
1438
01:16:45,100 --> 01:16:47,144
{\an8}There have always been scammers.
1439
01:16:47,144 --> 01:16:50,480
{\an8}We all started feeling
a tremendous amount of pressure
1440
01:16:50,480 --> 01:16:52,899
because it was all over the media now.
1441
01:16:52,899 --> 01:16:56,862
They were all talking about it
and referring to it as a scam.
1442
01:16:56,862 --> 01:17:00,907
{\an8}It's amazing how right at this moment
on TV, for instance,
1443
01:17:00,907 --> 01:17:03,452
they're talking about scams and scandal.
1444
01:17:03,452 --> 01:17:05,871
I compare it to having a grocery store.
1445
01:17:05,871 --> 01:17:08,915
If a new grocery store opens
a block away from yours,
1446
01:17:08,915 --> 01:17:13,170
and they post signs saying you sell
expired vegetables and rotten meat,
1447
01:17:13,170 --> 01:17:15,380
then they start a full-on media attack,
1448
01:17:15,380 --> 01:17:18,925
there comes a point where the local people
won't buy from you anymore,
1449
01:17:19,426 --> 01:17:21,678
and the business will eventually collapse.
1450
01:17:21,678 --> 01:17:25,015
[Cositorto] Hello, leaders.
Good morning and good afternoon.
1451
01:17:25,015 --> 01:17:26,683
I want to say hi to all of you,
1452
01:17:26,683 --> 01:17:30,937
and I want to share some key points
that I believe should be very clear.
1453
01:17:30,937 --> 01:17:35,150
This is mainly about the steps
we're gonna take today and tomorrow.
1454
01:17:35,150 --> 01:17:36,443
It's very important...
1455
01:17:36,443 --> 01:17:38,737
Instead of coming to terms
with things and saying,
1456
01:17:38,737 --> 01:17:41,156
"Okay, this is it. We lost the money."
1457
01:17:41,156 --> 01:17:44,076
"We don't know how to pay back
the people that first invested."
1458
01:17:45,077 --> 01:17:48,121
Their way out was to relaunch a new offer
1459
01:17:48,121 --> 01:17:51,625
that was even more tempting
and offered even more earnings.
1460
01:17:51,625 --> 01:17:55,712
Become a part of this one and only bot,
the only one left.
1461
01:17:55,712 --> 01:17:59,591
There is no other bot
than this quarterly progressive bot
1462
01:17:59,591 --> 01:18:03,970
that offers 20, 25, 30, and 35%.
1463
01:18:03,970 --> 01:18:06,765
LAST ROBOT 4 PROGRESSIVE MONTHS
20% 25% 30% 35% TOTAL EARNINGS 110%
1464
01:18:06,765 --> 01:18:09,059
[Mirian] It was our way of supporting Zoe,
1465
01:18:09,059 --> 01:18:12,896
a way of showing our vote of confidence
and trust in the company,
1466
01:18:12,896 --> 01:18:16,233
because by this time,
they didn't have the liquidity
1467
01:18:16,233 --> 01:18:19,569
or the needed cash flow
to pay for memberships for everybody.
1468
01:18:19,569 --> 01:18:22,823
So we decided
to go all in on this last bot,
1469
01:18:22,823 --> 01:18:25,992
because it looked like
it was going to be our last chance.
1470
01:18:25,992 --> 01:18:27,411
There wouldn't be another.
1471
01:18:28,370 --> 01:18:32,249
[somber music playing]
1472
01:18:36,002 --> 01:18:37,754
LAST ROBOT!
1473
01:18:37,754 --> 01:18:39,089
CLICK HERE
1474
01:18:39,089 --> 01:18:42,342
[Norma] My main concern
was the need to procure money.
1475
01:18:42,342 --> 01:18:44,386
It didn't matter how much we had.
1476
01:18:44,386 --> 01:18:48,223
In those final moments, it was clear
that the most important thing
1477
01:18:48,223 --> 01:18:49,474
was to get money in.
1478
01:18:49,474 --> 01:18:51,435
That should have been a warning sign.
1479
01:18:51,435 --> 01:18:56,314
It should have alerted us and made us
realize that things weren't working.
1480
01:18:57,649 --> 01:18:58,859
There was skepticism.
1481
01:18:58,859 --> 01:19:05,240
[tape rewinding]
1482
01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:09,077
[small mechanical clicking]
1483
01:19:12,247 --> 01:19:14,291
[lulling music playing]
1484
01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:17,377
[Belén] At that point, there were people
coming in to pressure us,
1485
01:19:17,377 --> 01:19:18,962
and they'd tell us off horribly.
1486
01:19:18,962 --> 01:19:21,923
Some of my coworkers
just couldn't take it anymore.
1487
01:19:21,923 --> 01:19:25,927
They couldn't handle the strong emotions
we were having to deal with.
1488
01:19:25,927 --> 01:19:27,554
They didn't want to come to work.
1489
01:19:27,554 --> 01:19:30,849
[dramatic music playing]
1490
01:19:32,684 --> 01:19:36,229
[Belén] There were cars
that were following us to our houses.
1491
01:19:38,106 --> 01:19:40,400
It started to get really scary.
1492
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:44,738
This entire situation
had turned into something very heavy.
1493
01:19:46,615 --> 01:19:48,992
Coworkers were being threatened.
1494
01:19:48,992 --> 01:19:51,620
Some of them were in the police force,
1495
01:19:51,620 --> 01:19:56,082
and one of my female coworkers
was receiving nasty threats.
1496
01:19:57,626 --> 01:19:59,628
[ominous music playing]
1497
01:20:04,007 --> 01:20:07,219
Things got a lot uglier,
and there were acts of violence.
1498
01:20:07,219 --> 01:20:09,471
Some of the victims
went to get their money.
1499
01:20:10,013 --> 01:20:13,016
They came to the offices in Nuñez,
and they were armed.
1500
01:20:14,392 --> 01:20:16,102
And the whole thing explodes
1501
01:20:16,102 --> 01:20:18,438
when they close the offices
in Villa María.
1502
01:20:18,438 --> 01:20:19,981
[feedback drones]
1503
01:20:21,066 --> 01:20:21,900
{\an8}VICTIM'S VOICE
1504
01:20:21,900 --> 01:20:24,611
{\an8}[man] I'll keep it simple.
I'm not going to wait for the company.
1505
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:29,074
{\an8}Until you give back what you took
from me and my friends, I will never stop.
1506
01:20:29,074 --> 01:20:29,991
{\an8}Got it?
1507
01:20:31,493 --> 01:20:34,996
You keep stalling and telling me
to sell this and to sell that.
1508
01:20:34,996 --> 01:20:36,915
Telling lies and more lies.
1509
01:20:36,915 --> 01:20:38,500
I'm not a kid anymore.
1510
01:20:39,668 --> 01:20:43,421
If you don't care about your family,
yourself, or anything else,
1511
01:20:43,421 --> 01:20:46,091
then I have no problem exposing you.
1512
01:20:46,091 --> 01:20:49,845
You don't even have the courage
to just pick up the phone
1513
01:20:49,845 --> 01:20:53,807
and make a simple phone call,
you motherfucking son of a bitch!
1514
01:20:53,807 --> 01:20:56,768
["I Wanna Be Your Dog"
by The Stooges playing]
1515
01:20:57,978 --> 01:20:59,896
You have time until the 16th.
1516
01:20:59,896 --> 01:21:02,148
I came for the 30,000 bucks I put here.
1517
01:21:02,148 --> 01:21:05,777
♪ So messed up, I want you here ♪
1518
01:21:05,777 --> 01:21:07,279
{\an8}[man] I am done. I'm tired of it.
1519
01:21:07,279 --> 01:21:08,321
{\an8}VICTIM'S VOICE
1520
01:21:08,321 --> 01:21:10,031
They managed to get into the offices.
1521
01:21:10,031 --> 01:21:13,577
♪ In my room, I want you here ♪
1522
01:21:13,577 --> 01:21:16,204
[man] They tore the place apart,
they hit people,
1523
01:21:16,204 --> 01:21:17,706
and some of them were armed.
1524
01:21:18,206 --> 01:21:19,541
#GIVETHEMONEYBACK
1525
01:21:19,541 --> 01:21:21,793
♪ Now we're gonna be face-to-face ♪
1526
01:21:21,793 --> 01:21:24,796
{\an8}They made deals with five
who were more enraged than us.
1527
01:21:24,796 --> 01:21:26,590
{\an8}#ZOETHIEVES
1528
01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:29,467
{\an8}♪ And I'll lay right down
In my favorite place ♪
1529
01:21:29,467 --> 01:21:31,636
{\an8}They took it,
and here we are with no money.
1530
01:21:31,636 --> 01:21:34,097
[man 1] Everyone here
just wants our money returned to us.
1531
01:21:34,097 --> 01:21:36,683
ZOE DISMANTLES NEW OFFICE IN ALICANTE
REPORTS OF PYRAMID SCHEME
1532
01:21:36,683 --> 01:21:38,101
♪ Now I wanna be your dog ♪
1533
01:21:38,101 --> 01:21:40,186
ZOE SPAIN: FROM LEADER'S
"EXPONENTIAL GROWTH"
1534
01:21:40,186 --> 01:21:42,063
TO "I DON'T HAVE A DIME" IN JUST ONE YEAR
1535
01:21:42,063 --> 01:21:45,400
YRIMIA: "THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT KNOW WHERE
ZOE'S MONEY IS ARE COSITORTO AND BATISTA"
1536
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:48,904
[man 2] Not even a follow-up call.
Don't make me come for you at your house.
1537
01:21:48,904 --> 01:21:53,158
[man 3] Everything's empty here.
There's nothing left. They took it all.
1538
01:21:53,158 --> 01:21:54,701
#ZOESCAM
1539
01:21:54,701 --> 01:21:58,872
There are no computers, there's no money.
The safes are empty. Not a single peso.
1540
01:21:58,872 --> 01:22:02,250
We worked on our own for the last week,
without the leaders.
1541
01:22:02,250 --> 01:22:04,336
We closed on February 14th.
1542
01:22:08,214 --> 01:22:12,177
All of a sudden, the office in Villa María
closed up without a warning.
1543
01:22:12,177 --> 01:22:14,804
They put up a sign with phone numbers,
and it said,
1544
01:22:14,804 --> 01:22:16,473
"Call this number. We're gone."
1545
01:22:17,599 --> 01:22:20,977
[Sergio] Some of the company's investors
would come to the newspaper
1546
01:22:20,977 --> 01:22:22,354
asking us what to do.
1547
01:22:23,563 --> 01:22:27,233
To be honest, we weren't exactly sure
what we should tell them to do.
1548
01:22:27,233 --> 01:22:29,945
The only thing that we were able
to suggest doing
1549
01:22:29,945 --> 01:22:32,822
was reaching out
to the district attorney directly
1550
01:22:32,822 --> 01:22:35,951
because we knew that she was already
working on this case.
1551
01:22:35,951 --> 01:22:39,955
[dramatic music playing]
1552
01:22:53,301 --> 01:22:56,721
[Juliana] At that point, we already
had our case pretty well established.
1553
01:22:57,639 --> 01:23:00,058
We had our arrest warrants
and search warrants
1554
01:23:00,058 --> 01:23:03,812
because two people
had already identified the organization.
1555
01:23:05,772 --> 01:23:08,650
We even confirmed
the place of residence for each of them.
1556
01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:10,986
We were waiting
for the first victim to come forward.
1557
01:23:13,905 --> 01:23:17,826
The first victim finally came to us
on February 17th.
1558
01:23:17,826 --> 01:23:20,203
There were actually three victims
that came forward.
1559
01:23:20,996 --> 01:23:22,831
[cell phone vibrates]
1560
01:23:27,168 --> 01:23:29,045
They told us they hadn't been paid.
1561
01:23:29,045 --> 01:23:32,340
[suspenseful music playing]
1562
01:23:32,340 --> 01:23:34,801
What we decided to do
immediately from there
1563
01:23:34,801 --> 01:23:37,887
is order the detainment of the Álvarezes.
1564
01:23:39,347 --> 01:23:42,892
We already knew that Cositorto and Batista
weren't in the country,
1565
01:23:42,892 --> 01:23:45,437
so we decided to order the searches
1566
01:23:45,437 --> 01:23:47,605
on their other confirmed
places of residence.
1567
01:23:47,605 --> 01:23:48,815
SEARCH
1568
01:23:51,026 --> 01:23:53,361
When we got to the addresses,
no one was there.
1569
01:23:53,361 --> 01:23:54,654
They were empty.
1570
01:23:54,654 --> 01:23:56,698
[sirens wailing distantly]
1571
01:23:56,698 --> 01:23:58,366
[Juliana] They had already gone in
1572
01:23:58,366 --> 01:24:01,077
and emptied out the Zoe office
in Villa María.
1573
01:24:01,578 --> 01:24:02,996
[camera shutters click]
1574
01:24:02,996 --> 01:24:04,247
Why did they do that?
1575
01:24:04,247 --> 01:24:07,167
Because they knew
that there was a federal police officer
1576
01:24:07,167 --> 01:24:10,754
who also worked as Claudio Álvarez's
personal bodyguard.
1577
01:24:10,754 --> 01:24:11,880
[phone line ringing]
1578
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:13,173
JUAN GOMEZ
WHATSAPP AUDIO
1579
01:24:13,173 --> 01:24:15,050
When we issued the search warrants,
1580
01:24:15,050 --> 01:24:18,511
this federal police officer
warned Claudio Álvarez.
1581
01:24:19,429 --> 01:24:22,390
There's record of a call
at 2:30 a.m. saying,
1582
01:24:22,390 --> 01:24:24,893
"They're going to search
your house tomorrow. Leave."
1583
01:24:24,893 --> 01:24:27,020
"Give me my money back and go."
1584
01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:31,107
He demanded they return the money
he had invested in Zoe, and so they fled.
1585
01:24:31,107 --> 01:24:33,193
[dramatic music playing]
1586
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,698
[reporter] A series of searches
have been carried out today in Villa María
1587
01:24:38,698 --> 01:24:42,077
due to fraud reports
filed against this organization.
1588
01:24:42,077 --> 01:24:45,955
These were ordered
by District Attorney Juliana Companys.
1589
01:24:54,255 --> 01:24:55,715
[Juliana] That happened on a Friday.
1590
01:24:55,715 --> 01:25:00,345
On Monday, an international arrest warrant
was issued for Batista and Cositorto.
1591
01:25:00,345 --> 01:25:02,472
[news sting playing]
1592
01:25:02,472 --> 01:25:03,723
{\an8}ALERT
1593
01:25:03,723 --> 01:25:05,225
{\an8}[news anchor] Breaking news.
1594
01:25:05,225 --> 01:25:07,227
{\an8}Right at this very moment,
1595
01:25:07,227 --> 01:25:09,312
{\an8}the international arrest warrant
1596
01:25:09,312 --> 01:25:14,818
{\an8}made against the one and only
Leonardo Nelson Cositorto has been issued.
1597
01:25:15,485 --> 01:25:16,361
For us,
1598
01:25:16,361 --> 01:25:20,573
that was the first time we had issued
an international arrest warrant.
1599
01:25:21,116 --> 01:25:23,618
We hadn't had that pleasure, so to speak.
1600
01:25:23,618 --> 01:25:25,954
So we got in touch with Interpol.
1601
01:25:25,954 --> 01:25:28,123
We didn't know exactly where they were.
1602
01:25:28,123 --> 01:25:32,210
We knew Maxi Batista
had left before the arrest warrant.
1603
01:25:32,210 --> 01:25:34,587
He'd gone to Mexico,
and from Mexico to Spain.
1604
01:25:35,171 --> 01:25:39,926
MADRID
SPAIN
1605
01:25:40,718 --> 01:25:42,887
[interviewer]
Maxi, did you ever get the feeling
1606
01:25:42,887 --> 01:25:44,973
that Leo let go of your hand
1607
01:25:44,973 --> 01:25:47,016
and left you to your own devices?
1608
01:25:49,394 --> 01:25:52,313
BATISTA AGREED TO AN INTERVIEW
WHILE BEING A FUGITIVE ON MARCH 18TH, 2022
1609
01:25:52,313 --> 01:25:56,109
I'm not in touch with Leo, but I'd like
to know what he thinks of this.
1610
01:25:58,319 --> 01:25:59,404
What's he thinking?
1611
01:26:03,783 --> 01:26:06,703
What was he thinking when he said,
"Everything's fine, keep going"?
1612
01:26:07,412 --> 01:26:09,664
Because, well, I...
1613
01:26:11,207 --> 01:26:13,543
I keep on wondering,
how can this be happening, you know?
1614
01:26:14,127 --> 01:26:15,795
Where there's division, there's chaos.
1615
01:26:15,795 --> 01:26:18,006
And what happened in the company was,
1616
01:26:18,006 --> 01:26:20,133
there were a lot of people
with a lot of power.
1617
01:26:20,717 --> 01:26:22,135
And those people with power,
1618
01:26:22,969 --> 01:26:25,221
they were the ones
who manipulated everything.
1619
01:26:26,014 --> 01:26:27,682
The businesses, the money.
1620
01:26:27,682 --> 01:26:32,228
And, in handling all of it,
they would take a lot of money.
1621
01:26:33,897 --> 01:26:37,192
A lot of people stole,
and there were many betrayals.
1622
01:26:39,861 --> 01:26:41,404
I'm living my worst nightmare.
1623
01:26:44,657 --> 01:26:46,784
I've never felt what I'm feeling.
1624
01:26:49,370 --> 01:26:50,622
I know what dying's like
1625
01:26:51,497 --> 01:26:52,373
because
1626
01:26:53,458 --> 01:26:54,500
I felt like I died.
1627
01:26:56,961 --> 01:26:58,171
So I started to...
1628
01:27:00,548 --> 01:27:05,011
live differently because I understood
you can be dead and alive all at once.
1629
01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:07,430
And I felt that my soul had died.
1630
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:10,892
{\an8}Four people are under arrest
in the Zoe case.
1631
01:27:10,892 --> 01:27:13,144
{\an8}Four were detained
after turning themselves in
1632
01:27:13,144 --> 01:27:15,188
{\an8}at the Villa Carlos Paz Judicial Unit.
1633
01:27:15,188 --> 01:27:19,359
{\an8}To this date, four out of the seven
fugitives on this case
1634
01:27:19,359 --> 01:27:20,902
{\an8}have already turned themselves in.
1635
01:27:21,486 --> 01:27:24,572
{\an8}These are Mr. Claudio Álvarez,
Ivana Álvarez,
1636
01:27:24,572 --> 01:27:27,325
{\an8}uh, Schamme Silvio, and Fermani Silvia.
1637
01:27:31,496 --> 01:27:34,707
[Javier] Cositorto tried to pretend
he was back in Colombia.
1638
01:27:35,291 --> 01:27:37,835
He posted a picture on his Instagram.
1639
01:27:37,835 --> 01:27:41,172
You could see him wearing
some very expensive sunglasses
1640
01:27:41,172 --> 01:27:42,715
while swimming in a pool.
1641
01:27:42,715 --> 01:27:43,841
WE'LL RISE BACK UP IN APRIL
1642
01:27:43,841 --> 01:27:46,261
He tagged it
in a certain spot in Colombia.
1643
01:27:46,261 --> 01:27:49,681
But when he had previously posted,
there was a Zoom meeting
1644
01:27:49,681 --> 01:27:53,184
in which the background
was very similar to a cabin complex
1645
01:27:53,184 --> 01:27:56,729
where they were supposed to build
one of Zoe's relaxation centers.
1646
01:27:57,605 --> 01:28:00,733
So we noticed similarities
between these backgrounds,
1647
01:28:00,733 --> 01:28:03,987
and we started thinking
that Cositorto might be hiding there.
1648
01:28:04,988 --> 01:28:06,698
And he did not like this at all.
1649
01:28:07,282 --> 01:28:09,534
He came out quite angry, visibly angry,
1650
01:28:09,534 --> 01:28:11,995
on a Zoom call at the exact same location.
1651
01:28:13,079 --> 01:28:16,666
{\an8}Hey, team. Well, I have to make this video
to show you this,
1652
01:28:16,666 --> 01:28:21,087
{\an8}so you can realize the place I'm in
is nowhere near Cartagena de Indias.
1653
01:28:21,087 --> 01:28:25,049
{\an8}I'm not that stupid, I'm not an idiot.
So don't underestimate me.
1654
01:28:25,049 --> 01:28:28,261
{\an8}I'm not about to be somewhere
they can easily find me.
1655
01:28:28,261 --> 01:28:31,264
{\an8}Besides, you're putting
people's lives at risk.
1656
01:28:31,889 --> 01:28:33,349
Stop lying and slandering.
1657
01:28:33,349 --> 01:28:36,561
You've been harassing this community
for over six months.
1658
01:28:37,312 --> 01:28:40,440
There are two things
that have an impact on social media.
1659
01:28:41,024 --> 01:28:43,151
Outrage and humor.
1660
01:28:43,151 --> 01:28:46,654
I prefer to take things with humor
and joke around.
1661
01:28:46,654 --> 01:28:49,490
And clearly, Beto Mendeleiev
prefers that too.
1662
01:28:49,490 --> 01:28:50,825
WE ARE THE NEW GENERATION
1663
01:28:50,825 --> 01:28:54,203
[male coach] We are going to launch
the first point, which is the lands.
1664
01:28:54,203 --> 01:28:56,789
These lands, the legendary lands.
1665
01:28:57,498 --> 01:29:00,376
[Javier] One day,
they left the Zoom whiteboard open,
1666
01:29:00,376 --> 01:29:03,755
and therefore,
anybody was able to draw on it.
1667
01:29:03,755 --> 01:29:06,924
[male coach] Guys, would you please
disable the whiteboard?
1668
01:29:06,924 --> 01:29:09,177
[Javier]
They drew everything from pyramids,
1669
01:29:09,177 --> 01:29:12,472
penises, and wrote "Beto lives"
because at that point,
1670
01:29:12,472 --> 01:29:14,891
Beto Mendeleiev's account
had been shut down.
1671
01:29:14,891 --> 01:29:17,435
[male coach] You're sharing the screen,
so you can disable it.
1672
01:29:17,435 --> 01:29:20,772
[man 1] No, no. I'm not.
I'm not the one sharing it.
1673
01:29:20,772 --> 01:29:23,149
It's being shared
by somebody on James' team.
1674
01:29:23,149 --> 01:29:24,734
[male coach] Thank you for being here.
1675
01:29:24,734 --> 01:29:26,402
- [man 2] Thank you.
- Despite the sabotage.
1676
01:29:26,402 --> 01:29:27,695
[man 3] Thank you, yes.
1677
01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:32,116
Then later, during another presentation
on a different day,
1678
01:29:32,116 --> 01:29:36,829
someone managed to get on camera
with an avatar of an Egyptian pharaoh.
1679
01:29:36,829 --> 01:29:39,248
[Cositorto] Please authorize Camilo León.
1680
01:29:39,248 --> 01:29:41,834
Cami, go ahead, you have the floor.
1681
01:29:41,834 --> 01:29:43,419
[Camilo] Hey, Leonardo.
1682
01:29:44,420 --> 01:29:48,508
I don't really know what else to say
that hasn't already been said before.
1683
01:29:48,508 --> 01:29:52,261
And if anyone else
has anything they want to add...
1684
01:30:02,563 --> 01:30:05,817
[menacing music playing]
1685
01:30:05,817 --> 01:30:08,111
[Juliana]
Cositorto said he was in Colombia,
1686
01:30:08,111 --> 01:30:11,114
because over Zoom
he would say he was in Medellín.
1687
01:30:11,114 --> 01:30:14,283
But his phone was pinging off
in the Dominican Republic.
1688
01:30:15,827 --> 01:30:19,831
Even though he was using a NAT gateway
to log into Zoom through the dark web,
1689
01:30:19,831 --> 01:30:24,627
which is an underground internet network
that is not visible to the average person,
1690
01:30:24,627 --> 01:30:27,630
and he would set it up to Spain,
as he usually did,
1691
01:30:28,339 --> 01:30:31,509
his cell phone was being flagged
in the Dominican Republic.
1692
01:30:31,509 --> 01:30:34,429
He didn't activate NAT
while using his phone.
1693
01:30:34,429 --> 01:30:36,889
So it gave us his exact physical location.
1694
01:30:38,683 --> 01:30:40,768
{\an8}COSITORTO CHARGED WITH FRAUD
AND UNLAWFUL ASSOCIATION
1695
01:30:40,768 --> 01:30:43,896
{\an8}We are now in direct communication
with Leonardo Cositorto,
1696
01:30:43,896 --> 01:30:45,606
{\an8}who is an active fugitive.
1697
01:30:45,606 --> 01:30:47,108
{\an8}Cositorto, good evening.
1698
01:30:47,108 --> 01:30:51,112
{\an8}I was wondering if you're able to tell us
what your location is at the moment.
1699
01:30:51,904 --> 01:30:54,490
{\an8}How's it going, Gustavo?
Good evening, how are you?
1700
01:30:55,283 --> 01:30:57,160
{\an8}It's nice to see you, and here we are.
1701
01:30:57,994 --> 01:30:59,328
{\an8}- Please tell us--
- At the moment,
1702
01:30:59,328 --> 01:31:01,414
{\an8}I'm in the Dominican Republic.
1703
01:31:01,414 --> 01:31:05,209
{\an8}Why are you a fugitive of the Argentinian
justice system, Cositorto?
1704
01:31:06,002 --> 01:31:09,046
{\an8}I'm not a fugitive
because I didn't flee from anywhere.
1705
01:31:09,046 --> 01:31:10,256
{\an8}I was traveling.
1706
01:31:10,256 --> 01:31:13,050
{\an8}I was on tour.
We're present in 21 countries.
1707
01:31:13,050 --> 01:31:16,387
[brooding music playing]
1708
01:31:18,639 --> 01:31:20,183
[Juliana] As for Maxi Batista,
1709
01:31:20,183 --> 01:31:23,352
we knew that he had been
communicating with his daughter.
1710
01:31:23,352 --> 01:31:26,522
We issued a search warrant
to raid his daughter's house,
1711
01:31:26,522 --> 01:31:29,567
and he was actually
just talking on the phone with her
1712
01:31:29,567 --> 01:31:31,235
when we knocked on her door.
1713
01:31:31,235 --> 01:31:35,156
We ordered her to hang up the phone
because we were performing the search.
1714
01:31:35,823 --> 01:31:39,243
At that moment,
Batista's brother shows up and tells us
1715
01:31:39,243 --> 01:31:42,663
that Batista did not want
his daughter to go through this.
1716
01:31:42,663 --> 01:31:46,083
It was that same day
that he decided to come back to Argentina
1717
01:31:46,083 --> 01:31:47,168
and turn himself in.
1718
01:31:48,294 --> 01:31:50,546
{\an8}[reporter 1]
There he is, Maximiliano Batista.
1719
01:31:50,546 --> 01:31:51,464
{\an8}MARCH 21ST 2022
1720
01:31:51,464 --> 01:31:53,716
{\an8}Are you going
to say something, Maximiliano?
1721
01:31:55,218 --> 01:31:56,969
{\an8}Is Cositorto turning himself in?
1722
01:31:57,637 --> 01:31:59,764
[reporter 2] The money, where's the money?
1723
01:32:00,515 --> 01:32:02,934
{\an8}[dramatic music playing]
1724
01:32:02,934 --> 01:32:06,312
{\an8}[Juliana] As for Cositorto,
what were their next steps going to be?
1725
01:32:06,312 --> 01:32:09,732
{\an8}Interpol personnel,
aided by Dominican Republic's Interpol,
1726
01:32:09,732 --> 01:32:12,235
began checking
the backgrounds on his recordings.
1727
01:32:13,444 --> 01:32:15,696
Those backgrounds they saw
were characteristic
1728
01:32:15,696 --> 01:32:17,406
of many beach house rentals.
1729
01:32:17,406 --> 01:32:21,202
So they started looking at beach houses
through a rental agency
1730
01:32:21,202 --> 01:32:23,871
to figure out if there was a house
that looked similar
1731
01:32:23,871 --> 01:32:25,206
to the house he was in.
1732
01:32:25,206 --> 01:32:27,917
They showed me the video,
and there it was.
1733
01:32:27,917 --> 01:32:31,254
It was the exact same house that
they had found through the rental company.
1734
01:32:31,837 --> 01:32:34,215
JUAN DOLIO
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
1735
01:32:34,215 --> 01:32:36,008
[reporter] Cositorto's attorney in Córdoba
1736
01:32:36,008 --> 01:32:39,220
states that his defendant
is willing to come to justice.
1737
01:32:39,220 --> 01:32:42,974
But they demand the district attorney
guarantee him certain privileges,
1738
01:32:42,974 --> 01:32:45,226
such as maintaining his freedom
1739
01:32:45,226 --> 01:32:48,521
and clarification of the crimes
he's being accused of committing.
1740
01:32:50,022 --> 01:32:52,024
[laid-back music playing]
1741
01:32:52,024 --> 01:32:53,693
[shower running]
1742
01:33:07,415 --> 01:33:10,459
[laid-back music continues playing]
1743
01:33:28,102 --> 01:33:29,645
[vibrating]
1744
01:33:45,661 --> 01:33:47,663
[police radio squawking]
1745
01:33:57,882 --> 01:33:59,884
[waves crashing]
1746
01:34:10,561 --> 01:34:12,688
[Juliana] He kept moving
to a different location
1747
01:34:12,688 --> 01:34:14,190
every three to five days.
1748
01:34:14,774 --> 01:34:17,693
He always remained
within the beaches in Juan Dolio,
1749
01:34:17,693 --> 01:34:19,695
but he would stay in different places.
1750
01:34:22,990 --> 01:34:27,495
At that point in time, the authorities
were closing in on Cositorto.
1751
01:34:28,454 --> 01:34:30,039
It was only a matter of hours
1752
01:34:30,039 --> 01:34:33,250
before they would finally be able
to confirm the exact location
1753
01:34:33,250 --> 01:34:34,460
where he was hiding.
1754
01:34:34,960 --> 01:34:38,422
[suspenseful music playing]
1755
01:34:40,883 --> 01:34:43,761
[Juliana] So Interpol
does the same thing all over again.
1756
01:34:43,761 --> 01:34:46,263
They tune into all
of his daily Zoom calls,
1757
01:34:46,263 --> 01:34:50,559
which he had made public,
and they find the exact same house.
1758
01:34:51,394 --> 01:34:54,271
Dominican Republic personnel
enter in the early morning.
1759
01:34:54,271 --> 01:34:55,898
[camera shutters clicking]
1760
01:34:57,233 --> 01:35:00,736
The people from the Dominican Republic
tell us they were very surprised
1761
01:35:00,736 --> 01:35:01,904
by what they saw.
1762
01:35:01,904 --> 01:35:05,533
They find him with another person,
a man, who was responsible
1763
01:35:05,533 --> 01:35:08,160
for helping him rent
the different locations.
1764
01:35:08,994 --> 01:35:11,539
I doubt he ever thought
I'd be able to arrest him.
1765
01:35:12,123 --> 01:35:17,586
{\an8}APRIL 4TH 2022
1766
01:35:17,586 --> 01:35:21,424
{\an8}We woke up on April 4th
to the news that Leonardo Cositorto
1767
01:35:21,424 --> 01:35:24,468
had been arrested
in the Dominican Republic.
1768
01:35:24,468 --> 01:35:27,972
That's when our eyes went,
"Wow! What happened?"
1769
01:35:30,015 --> 01:35:32,184
We realized he was really a fugitive.
1770
01:35:33,769 --> 01:35:37,940
If Interpol detains someone in that way,
they are usually criminals.
1771
01:35:37,940 --> 01:35:42,486
So there was definitely something else
going on that we did not know about.
1772
01:35:42,486 --> 01:35:44,697
[sirens wailing distantly]
1773
01:35:47,408 --> 01:35:49,618
[Mirian] He was extradited to Argentina,
1774
01:35:49,618 --> 01:35:52,121
and we saw him
get brought in in handcuffs.
1775
01:35:52,121 --> 01:35:54,582
He looked like
a completely different man to me.
1776
01:35:54,582 --> 01:35:57,209
We couldn't believe
what we were seeing with our own eyes.
1777
01:35:57,209 --> 01:36:00,337
And that's when the veil
began to come off, you know?
1778
01:36:01,672 --> 01:36:08,679
{\an8}[tape rewinding]
1779
01:36:15,144 --> 01:36:16,437
{\an8}DISTRICT ATORNEY'S OFFICE
1780
01:36:16,437 --> 01:36:18,689
{\an8}[man] In this provincial court
at Villa María's center,
1781
01:36:18,689 --> 01:36:24,153
{\an8}Leonardo Cositorto is testifying
before district attorney Juliana Companys.
1782
01:36:25,780 --> 01:36:29,116
The district attorney,
Juliana Companys, detains you.
1783
01:36:29,116 --> 01:36:32,912
She abuses her power,
abuses preventative custody,
1784
01:36:32,912 --> 01:36:38,459
and then says she's taking you to trial
where you'll get five, eight, ten years.
1785
01:36:38,459 --> 01:36:40,711
But if you declare yourself guilty,
1786
01:36:40,711 --> 01:36:43,714
if you raise your hand
and accept the facts,
1787
01:36:43,714 --> 01:36:46,175
she'll set you free in two to four years.
1788
01:36:46,175 --> 01:36:48,886
During my first encounter with him, he...
1789
01:36:48,886 --> 01:36:50,763
He was incredibly angry.
1790
01:36:50,763 --> 01:36:53,182
He faces me, and points at me like this.
1791
01:36:53,182 --> 01:36:56,936
I tell him he needs to respect me
and that he should put his finger down.
1792
01:36:56,936 --> 01:36:59,021
And if he respects me, I'll respect him.
1793
01:36:59,730 --> 01:37:03,776
He was fuming and said it was my fault
that his company, his mega company,
1794
01:37:03,776 --> 01:37:04,902
had fallen apart.
1795
01:37:04,902 --> 01:37:07,530
They dragged my name through the mud.
1796
01:37:07,530 --> 01:37:08,864
They slandered me.
1797
01:37:08,864 --> 01:37:12,451
They practically sanctioned
the death of my reputation.
1798
01:37:12,451 --> 01:37:16,497
I think that a year ago,
I could have been stabbed on the street,
1799
01:37:16,497 --> 01:37:18,374
I didn't keep anybody's money.
1800
01:37:18,374 --> 01:37:21,710
Mr. Cositorto has always
maintained his position
1801
01:37:21,710 --> 01:37:23,921
of being a victim of the system.
1802
01:37:23,921 --> 01:37:28,467
Not only a victim of the economic system,
but also of the judicial system.
1803
01:37:28,467 --> 01:37:30,219
{\an8}176 FRAUD CHARGES
1804
01:37:30,219 --> 01:37:31,637
{\an8}[Juliana] Mr. Leo Cositorto--
1805
01:37:31,637 --> 01:37:34,223
{\an8}Sorry, Leonardo Cositorto,
has plead guilty.
1806
01:37:34,223 --> 01:37:39,311
{\an8}He was charged with 176 counts of fraud,
and one for unlawful association.
1807
01:37:39,311 --> 01:37:42,940
[Cositorto]
Your politics, your corrupt businessmen,
1808
01:37:42,940 --> 01:37:47,528
the corrupt media that sells out,
and the legal system.
1809
01:37:47,528 --> 01:37:50,447
Those are the real frauds in Argentina.
1810
01:37:50,447 --> 01:37:52,449
- [reporter] You're not guilty?
- Those four things.
1811
01:37:52,449 --> 01:37:55,494
I am one of the victims
in this whole story.
1812
01:37:55,494 --> 01:37:58,789
[dramatic music playing]
1813
01:38:04,044 --> 01:38:05,921
[Juliana] In regards to his trading,
1814
01:38:05,921 --> 01:38:09,049
we discovered
that it was actually only a demo.
1815
01:38:09,049 --> 01:38:12,803
In reality, there was never
any actual trading.
1816
01:38:16,098 --> 01:38:20,311
Any broker can represent graphically
what is going on in the market.
1817
01:38:21,270 --> 01:38:23,522
What yields returns for a broker
1818
01:38:23,522 --> 01:38:27,067
is making sure that the benefits
represented on-screen
1819
01:38:27,067 --> 01:38:29,069
are available to be withdrawn.
1820
01:38:31,113 --> 01:38:35,117
It's safe to say now
that what we were seeing in the Zoe broker
1821
01:38:35,117 --> 01:38:36,869
was just a simulation.
1822
01:38:42,625 --> 01:38:46,253
{\an8}- How many people do you represent?
- We have 20 victims and counting.
1823
01:38:46,253 --> 01:38:48,047
{\an8}I have my entire team working on this.
1824
01:38:48,047 --> 01:38:49,757
{\an8}What are their demands from Cositorto?
1825
01:38:49,757 --> 01:38:53,218
{\an8}Well, what they're asking for
is their money back, of course.
1826
01:38:53,218 --> 01:38:56,472
{\an8}- How much money did they put in?
- Some put in 5,000 or $8,000.
1827
01:38:56,472 --> 01:38:58,766
{\an8}And there's one that put in $70,000.
1828
01:38:58,766 --> 01:38:59,850
{\an8}[host] Dollars?
1829
01:38:59,850 --> 01:39:02,311
I invested $3,000 in Zoe,
1830
01:39:02,311 --> 01:39:05,606
2,648 euros when exchanged.
1831
01:39:05,606 --> 01:39:07,858
We each put in 6,000 euros.
1832
01:39:07,858 --> 01:39:09,485
{\an8}I put in $8,000.
1833
01:39:09,485 --> 01:39:13,197
{\an8}That was for the Christmas bot,
and 500 for a trust to start out.
1834
01:39:13,197 --> 01:39:17,451
{\an8}And I've got friends
that invested up to $200,000.
1835
01:39:17,451 --> 01:39:20,829
{\an8}[woman] Colombia, Peru, there's Ecuador,
1836
01:39:20,829 --> 01:39:25,501
{\an8}the United States,
there's Mexico, Guatemala, Spain.
1837
01:39:26,210 --> 01:39:28,087
{\an8}- And also Germany.
- From Germany?
1838
01:39:28,087 --> 01:39:32,257
We estimate that, out of the $120 million
1839
01:39:32,257 --> 01:39:34,301
that the total fraud was worth,
1840
01:39:34,301 --> 01:39:38,472
only 10% of that amount was actually
put into the legitimate market
1841
01:39:38,472 --> 01:39:41,725
and reflected in movements
within the banking system.
1842
01:39:42,351 --> 01:39:45,312
The rest of the amount
was put into the informal market,
1843
01:39:45,312 --> 01:39:47,481
and also into virtual wallets.
1844
01:39:47,481 --> 01:39:49,692
That money is in different tax havens,
1845
01:39:49,692 --> 01:39:53,487
where it can be reinvested
and there are no regulations over it.
1846
01:39:54,071 --> 01:39:56,991
Considering all of the countries
that they were present in,
1847
01:39:56,991 --> 01:40:01,286
I believe that a modest number
would be around $250 million.
1848
01:40:03,205 --> 01:40:05,791
If anyone tells me
that it was actually 400,
1849
01:40:05,791 --> 01:40:07,459
it wouldn't surprise me at all.
1850
01:40:07,459 --> 01:40:11,380
Mr. Cositorto considers
both his business and what he did
1851
01:40:11,380 --> 01:40:12,381
to be valid.
1852
01:40:12,381 --> 01:40:14,842
He claims that he can demonstrate as such,
1853
01:40:14,842 --> 01:40:17,594
although he has not been able
to do that yet in a legal sense.
1854
01:40:18,303 --> 01:40:20,431
His lawyers have not
turned in any material
1855
01:40:20,431 --> 01:40:22,307
that could prove that this is true,
1856
01:40:22,307 --> 01:40:24,852
that the company
made this much from trading,
1857
01:40:24,852 --> 01:40:26,937
and this amount from investments.
1858
01:40:26,937 --> 01:40:28,647
He has not provided anything.
1859
01:40:29,273 --> 01:40:33,152
And we have conclusive evidence
against him, which he tries to refute,
1860
01:40:33,152 --> 01:40:36,030
but he lacks arguments
and he ends up nowhere.
1861
01:40:36,030 --> 01:40:37,656
[dramatic music playing]
1862
01:40:37,656 --> 01:40:39,742
[small mechanical clicking]
1863
01:40:44,121 --> 01:40:46,415
[Javier] I'm often asked
why I keep persisting with this.
1864
01:40:46,999 --> 01:40:49,043
Why do I still care if Zoe has fallen?
1865
01:40:51,003 --> 01:40:54,173
For Cositorto,
nobody will ever believe in him.
1866
01:40:54,173 --> 01:40:56,425
No one will ever give him money again.
1867
01:40:56,425 --> 01:40:58,844
But there are many
similar scams out there,
1868
01:40:58,844 --> 01:41:01,722
so I hope that this story
can serve as an example
1869
01:41:01,722 --> 01:41:03,432
to create awareness in people,
1870
01:41:04,808 --> 01:41:06,602
so that they're more careful.
1871
01:41:06,602 --> 01:41:10,564
And the next time that someone
comes offering a miraculous investment
1872
01:41:10,564 --> 01:41:12,858
with an impossible return,
1873
01:41:12,858 --> 01:41:15,736
they can remember
something called Generation Zoe,
1874
01:41:15,736 --> 01:41:17,154
and a man named Cositorto.
1875
01:41:17,154 --> 01:41:18,947
[fan blades whooshing]
1876
01:41:20,908 --> 01:41:24,912
[Juliana] Since the pandemic,
scams like these have grown exponentially.
1877
01:41:24,912 --> 01:41:27,539
Especially virtual scams like this one.
1878
01:41:27,539 --> 01:41:31,251
The sentences are usually very mild,
so nothing really happens.
1879
01:41:31,251 --> 01:41:33,378
Many criminals just walk out freely,
1880
01:41:33,378 --> 01:41:37,174
even though they might have
scammed people for millions of dollars.
1881
01:41:37,174 --> 01:41:40,594
At this time, there is not a legitimate
or strong enough sanction
1882
01:41:40,594 --> 01:41:43,138
that will keep them
from doing it again in the future.
1883
01:41:46,016 --> 01:41:49,728
[Sergio] I believe that the possibility
of being deceived
1884
01:41:49,728 --> 01:41:52,481
exists in each and every one of us.
1885
01:41:52,481 --> 01:41:56,735
And there will always
be an organization similar to this one
1886
01:41:56,735 --> 01:42:01,073
trying to exploit our weak spots
so that they can lure us in.
1887
01:42:01,073 --> 01:42:06,120
Throwing a line out to us
and then waiting for us to take the bait,
1888
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:08,539
because they know
what position to put us in
1889
01:42:08,539 --> 01:42:10,124
to make us bite.
1890
01:42:11,458 --> 01:42:13,585
[metal creaking]
1891
01:42:17,047 --> 01:42:20,342
{\an8}[wistful music playing]
1892
01:42:20,342 --> 01:42:22,094
ICE CREAM - JUICE
1893
01:42:22,094 --> 01:42:25,556
[Raquel]
The story of Zoe was a roller coaster.
1894
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:28,100
Because at first,
1895
01:42:28,725 --> 01:42:30,435
it was very exciting.
1896
01:42:31,854 --> 01:42:34,356
But then, I also felt a
1897
01:42:35,357 --> 01:42:37,359
huge sense of frustration.
1898
01:42:37,359 --> 01:42:39,736
And there was no way
1899
01:42:40,487 --> 01:42:41,864
of turning back.
1900
01:42:43,824 --> 01:42:45,409
[Belén] It felt something like,
1901
01:42:46,368 --> 01:42:48,996
I don't know, it felt something like...
1902
01:42:48,996 --> 01:42:50,205
a heartbreak.
1903
01:42:50,789 --> 01:42:53,584
It felt like my trust had been broken.
1904
01:42:54,418 --> 01:42:57,629
Like I was cheated out of my dreams,
1905
01:42:57,629 --> 01:43:00,799
and the illusions
that filled me with life.
1906
01:43:00,799 --> 01:43:02,551
It was all gone.
1907
01:43:05,929 --> 01:43:08,724
[Norma] I think we all went
from love to hate at first.
1908
01:43:08,724 --> 01:43:10,517
Then anger, first at myself.
1909
01:43:11,101 --> 01:43:15,147
I was angry and kept wondering,
"How had I fallen for this?" You know?
1910
01:43:15,147 --> 01:43:17,649
I felt terrible. Then I got angry at Leo.
1911
01:43:17,649 --> 01:43:20,694
{\an8}EVERY BALL TURNED HAS A PRIZE
1912
01:43:20,694 --> 01:43:24,198
{\an8}[Mirian] There was an atmosphere
of abandonment, despair,
1913
01:43:24,198 --> 01:43:25,616
{\an8}anguish, and sadness.
1914
01:43:25,616 --> 01:43:28,368
A lot of people were scared.
Others were depressed.
1915
01:43:28,368 --> 01:43:30,329
Many people attempted suicide.
1916
01:43:30,329 --> 01:43:33,707
There were broken families,
broken marriages.
1917
01:43:33,707 --> 01:43:37,377
People that had
invested their inheritances, their homes,
1918
01:43:37,377 --> 01:43:40,088
they didn't have a place to live anymore.
1919
01:43:40,088 --> 01:43:42,424
They had literally nothing left.
1920
01:43:42,424 --> 01:43:44,218
COSITORTO GIVE BACK THE MONEY
1921
01:43:44,218 --> 01:43:45,928
{\an8}WE WANT JUSTICE
1922
01:43:45,928 --> 01:43:48,847
{\an8}[Raquel] To me,
it makes no sense for any person
1923
01:43:48,847 --> 01:43:51,516
{\an8}who has a minimal sense of humanity
1924
01:43:51,516 --> 01:43:54,186
{\an8}to commit these
merciless actions towards others.
1925
01:43:54,186 --> 01:43:55,520
{\an8}COSITORTO
GIVE US BACK OUR MONEY
1926
01:43:57,773 --> 01:43:59,274
It takes a sociopath.
1927
01:44:01,568 --> 01:44:05,739
BOUWER PRISON
CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA
1928
01:44:05,739 --> 01:44:08,367
[dramatic music playing]
1929
01:44:09,576 --> 01:44:12,329
[Maximiliano] I don't feel responsibility
for what happened.
1930
01:44:13,455 --> 01:44:16,166
A company that is constantly
attacked and hurt?
1931
01:44:18,126 --> 01:44:19,336
How can it hold on?
1932
01:44:20,212 --> 01:44:21,672
How can it be reliable?
1933
01:44:25,842 --> 01:44:28,637
I never thought that Zoe was a scam.
1934
01:44:28,637 --> 01:44:29,721
Not even now.
1935
01:44:31,056 --> 01:44:34,601
I believe that the system
and the world played a cruel trick on us.
1936
01:44:36,687 --> 01:44:37,896
And I believe that...
1937
01:44:39,189 --> 01:44:41,525
I'm paying for that trick being here.
1938
01:44:41,525 --> 01:44:43,610
[dramatic music continues]
1939
01:44:50,867 --> 01:44:53,161
[Cositorto] To the victims,
I can say that I'm sorry
1940
01:44:53,161 --> 01:44:55,872
and tell them that by June 2024,
1941
01:44:55,872 --> 01:44:57,916
if they allow me to work here,
1942
01:44:57,916 --> 01:45:00,252
if I have access to a public phone,
1943
01:45:00,252 --> 01:45:03,797
I can give it all back to them
in one to three years.
1944
01:45:03,797 --> 01:45:07,426
I know I'm capable
because it wouldn't be the first time.
1945
01:45:07,426 --> 01:45:09,928
I became a millionaire at 24.
1946
01:45:12,597 --> 01:45:15,183
I will simply keep going, time will pass.
1947
01:45:15,183 --> 01:45:18,395
Of course, I would love
to be 35 years old again,
1948
01:45:18,395 --> 01:45:19,938
but I'm 53.
1949
01:45:19,938 --> 01:45:21,773
How long is this gonna last?
1950
01:45:21,773 --> 01:45:24,901
I don't know, but I am never
going to raise my hand
1951
01:45:24,901 --> 01:45:28,363
and take responsibility
for something I did not do.
1952
01:45:29,406 --> 01:45:32,909
The main accused parties
in the Generation Zoe case in Villa María,
1953
01:45:32,909 --> 01:45:36,496
Leonardo Cositorto, Maximiliano Batista,
Claudio Álvarez and Silvia Fermani
1954
01:45:36,496 --> 01:45:37,956
are in prison awaiting trial.
1955
01:45:37,956 --> 01:45:41,335
Rosa María González Rincón is on the run.
Luis Yrimia is in Dubai.
1956
01:45:41,335 --> 01:45:44,379
The Zoe case has dozens additional
accused around the world.
1957
01:45:44,379 --> 01:45:45,922
Many of them were prosecuted.
1958
01:45:45,922 --> 01:45:49,217
A lot of them are still working
for MLM companies or created their own.
1959
01:45:49,217 --> 01:45:52,804
["Vida Acuática" by Kita Pena playing]
1960
01:47:15,846 --> 01:47:18,473
[music fades]