Alejandro Gómez (politician)
Alejandro Gómez | |
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Vice President of Argentina | |
In office May 1, 1958 – November 18, 1958 | |
President | Arturo Frondizi |
Preceded by | Isaac Rojas |
Succeeded by | Carlos Perette |
Personal details | |
Born | April 4, 1908 Rosario |
Died | February 6, 2005 Las Tapias, Córdoba | (aged 96)
Nationality | Argentine |
Political party | UCR UCRI (1956–58) |
Spouse | María Celia Cabos |
Profession | Lawyer |
Alejandro Gómez (April 4, 1908 – February 6, 2005) was an Argentine educator and lawyer who served as the
Life and times
Gómez was born in
Gómez, however, did not abandon his teaching profession, and he established the Workers' Night School in Rosario, which he operated in a clandestine manner during the authoritarian Concordance regime that followed. Gómez met María Celia Cabos, and they were married in 1936.[2] He enrolled at the Rosario campus of the National University of the Littoral (later converted to the National University of Rosario), and earned a law degree in 1940.[1] He and his wife had three sons.[2]
He resumed his activities in the UCR, and was elected to successive party committee posts. Gómez joined former
Frondizi and Gómez had met in 1942, and became friends.
A serious policy dispute emerged, however, when the President announced in July that the nation's largely untapped
Amid a series of strikes in opposition to the oil contracts policy, the UCRI expelled the Vice President, thus prompting him to resign on November 18.
Gómez became a vocal opponent of both the policy of developmentalism advanced by Frondizi's chief domestic policy adviser, Rogelio Julio Frigerio (over its reliance on foreign direct investment), as well as of austerity measures enacted by the conservative Economy Minister Álvaro Alsogaray (particularly its cutbacks in rail services).[1] The latter, however, were mainly the result of military demands, and following 48 ultimatums over policy disputes, President Frondizi was overthrown in 1962.[6] Gómez later established two advocacy groups espousing economic nationalism: Movimiento Latinoamericano and Movimiento Nacional de Defensa del Petróleo y la Energía.[2]
The former Vice President was awarded the
He retired in Las Tapias, a scenic Córdoba Province town, and died there of a
References
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- ^ "La renuncia de Gómez". Vea y Lea. November 1962.
- ^ Abel, José Luis (2010). "La UCRI de Río Negro y la Convención Constituyente de 1957" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-27.
- ^ Nohlen, Dieter (2005). Elections in the Americas. Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b "Presidencia de Frondizi". Todo Argentina.
- ^ a b "Los años locos de la Tía Vicenta". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
- ^ "Plan Conintes". El Ortiba. Archived from the original on 2011-08-10.
- ^ "Murió Alejandro Gómez, ex vicepresidente de Arturo Frondizi". Diario El Cuyo.
- ^ "Un siglo...una vida". Prometeo. Archived from the original on 2012-03-27.