“Have you ever felt called to be more?” In this thought-provoking expression, IM Academy –’Yo soy academy, with literal translation into Spanish– this weekend Badalona It attracts thousands of young people from Europe and America. basketball court Badalona Youth Club It has become a stage where the so-called masters of investment in the stock market or management with cryptocurrencies pass. Equipped with headphones, under the lighting of rock stars, amid thunderous music, in front of a private audience who celebrate their advice as if ‘penya’ had tripled at the last second.
IM Academy, colloquially known as a ‘crypto-cult’, did not accredit local media or email journalists seeking their attention. He did the opposite: He asked attendees not to speak to the press, and many followed the request, a version they viewed as hostile, skeptical of the journalists’ treatment of the event in their own media. This National Police arrested eight Spanish members of this organization a few weeks ago. The state body is investigating them for fraud and warns that the structure uses its own techniques of “sectarian organisations”.
very young participants
IM Academy came to Badalona to rent the pavilion of the pavilion. Badalona Youth Club, without explaining what to do with the municipal means and resisted the suspicions they dragged. “People are afraid of what they don’t know,” repeat the young people who agreed to talk to EL PERIÓDICO just hours before the end of the international congress. Although they did not dispel the suspicions that had hung over the organization over the weekend, they were enthusiastic after they left.
“Most of us are middle- or lower-class teenagers,” he explains. Martinaincoming Cordoba (Argentina) with a friend and that he has been a part of IM Academy for three years and thanks to the training he received “financial freedomThis is what this American-based organization sells to young people from all over the world who share a sense of living between not-so-flattering economic horizons. “My friends couldn’t leave Córdoba, they work jobs like taxi drivers and they don’t earn more than $150. They see me doing things like traveling to Spain to come to this convention and they say I’m doing well”, explains Martina’s friend Argentinian like her. ” It worked for us, but there will be those who do not,” they defend themselves.
International Congress
There was no other meeting. He had an international character in Badalona. incoming Switzerlandfrom Germanyfrom Portugalfrom Francefrom Italyfrom Britainfrom Argentina pay United States of America. And the rest of Spain. This Sunday afternoon, a group of French people came out brilliantly from their morning session. “We’ve been taught the ‘mentality’.” They were brutally questioned about exactly what this meant, trying to report receiving “motivational” conversations about personal growth. “Here they teach you how to invest in the stock market, currency or cryptocurrency. But the most important thing is the mindset,” explains Francisca, who is in her thirties and looks older than the other participants who have just finished. twenty years old. “You learn to be unemotional to make the right financial decisions,” she insists, convinced.
There are videos on youtube. In one of them, a Venezuelan presenter sums up the organization’s purpose with these words: “Generate income smartly with just an internet connection and a mobile device.” In his presentation, he emphasizes that it has 270,000 students, that the academy is “known in 80 different countries” and that it has professional investors who convey the necessary information. These mentors are called “leaders”.
“Network basics”
Isabella, a fake name woman went to Barcelona and paid the registration fee of around 300 euros. She has above-average work experience and an extensive college education. It has been an experience for him. very disappointed. She explains that she didn’t learn anything she didn’t know or couldn’t find on the internet, although she stressed that she didn’t see anything reportable. The training they provide doesn’t reveal a magic formula for making money by investing online, he says. Isabel is not and will not be a member of IM Academy. She believes that this is the purpose of this convention in Badalona above all: “Throw a party to motivate them, strengthen their sense of belonging to this community and persuade them to continue contracting training courses online,” explains Isabel. I think they are forcing anyone to do something they don’t want, and I think they can quit whenever they want,” and explains the opposite about whether it should be accepted as a sect or not.
municipal unrest
Badalona City Council showed disagreement with the celebration of the event. And Aïda Llauradó from En Comú Podem, a member of the municipal government, explains that after this unwanted convention in the city, they will review the conditions for transferring this pavilion to the basketball club. Until now, Joventut had rented the venue for concerts and similar events. However, the IM Academy revealed that the municipality can also have a say in who will step in the footsteps of the city team.