Alfredo Bravo

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Alfredo Bravo

Alfredo Bravo (30 April 1925 – 26 May 2003) was an

legislator.[1]

Life and times

Bravo was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province. He studied in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province, and became a teacher at 18. Teaching in the rural north of Santa Fe Province, he returned upon being called for compulsory military training. He moved to Buenos Aires afterwards, where he joined the union movement.

Bravo left the Socialist Party in 1957, since he opposed the participation of many of his fellow party members in the Consultative Junta convened by the military regime that had ousted President Juan Perón two years earlier. He took part in the writing of the Teacher's Statute, and was involved in the 1973 unification of the teachers' labour movement into the Education Workers Confederation of the Argentine Republic (CTERA), of which he became Secretary General.

On September 8, 1977, about a year and a half after the

disappeared" until September 20, and was only released in 1979. During his detention he was tortured,[2] which left him with vascular damage in his legs. Bravo recognized Buenos Aires Provincial Police officer Miguel Etchecolatz and General Ramón Camps
as his torturers.

Once freed, he became a human rights militant at the

Due Obedience Law
, which halted judicial procedures on many people involved in the crimes of the dictatorial period.

Bravo returned to his party (the moderate faction, called

Alliance for Work, Justice and Education, which brought Fernando de la Rúa to the presidency in the 1999 elections, though he later distanced himself from de la Rúa's austerity
policies.

As a fan of River Plate, que was a member of the Representative's Assembly for the Agrupación Tradicional, between 1993 and 1997. In 1997, he ran for president. In 2001, Alfredo Bravo was part of the formula of the Agrupación Tradicional who had Carlos Lancioni as candidate for president.

In 2001 he ran for senator representing the City of Buenos Aires and obtained enough votes to win a seat, but a legal conflict led to the assumption of Gustavo Béliz instead. In the 2003 elections he ran for President (with Rubén Giustiniani as candidate for Vice-President); but only gathered about 1% of the vote.

On the early hours of May 26, 2003, one day after the inauguration of President Néstor Kirchner, Bravo suffered a heart attack and died. He was waked at the Salón de los Pasos Perdidos of the Argentine Congress, attended by figures from across the political establishment.

References

  1. ^ "Alfredo Bravo" The Independent. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  2. ^ Robert Pastor, National Security Council (28 August 1978). "National Security Council, Memorandum for Zbigniew Brzezinski, from Robert Pastor, "Human Rights in Argentina," Confidential, August 28, 1978" (PDF). The National Security Archive of George Washington University. Archived from the original on 18 December 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2017.