Antonio Cafiero
Antonio Cafiero | |
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National Senator | |
In office 10 December 1993 – 10 December 2005 | |
Constituency | Buenos Aires |
7th Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers | |
In office 30 December 2001 – 2 January 2002 | |
President | Eduardo Camaño |
Preceded by | Luis Lusquiños |
Succeeded by | Jorge Capitanich |
Governor of Buenos Aires | |
In office 10 December 1987 – 10 December 1991 | |
Lieutenant | Luis María Macaya |
Preceded by | Alejandro Armendáriz |
Succeeded by | Eduardo Duhalde |
Personal details | |
Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 12 September 1922
Died | 13 October 2014 Buenos Aires, Argentina | (aged 92)
Political party | Justicialist Party |
Spouse | Ana Goitía |
Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
Profession | Accountant |
Antonio Francisco Cafiero (12 September 1922 – 13 October 2014) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.[1] Cafiero held a number of important posts throughout his career, including, most notably, the governorship of Buenos Aires Province from 1987 to 1991, the Cabinet Chief's Office under interim president Eduardo Camaño from 2001 to 2002, and a seat in the Senate of the Nation from 1993 to 2005.
Early and personal life
Cafiero was born in Buenos Aires. He joined Catholic Action in 1938, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, becoming President of the Students' Association. He graduated as an accountant in 1944, and earned a Doctor in Economic Sciences in 1948, teaching in the discipline as a professor from 1952 to 1984. Cafiero became a militant Peronist from the 17 October 1945 mass demonstrations in support of populist leader Juan Perón, and entered public service in 1952 as Minister of Foreign Trade in the latter's administration, serving until 1954. He married the former Ana Goitía, and they had ten children.[2]
Cafiero lost his wife of fifty years, Ana Goitía, in 1994.
Political career
Cafiero held offices in the National Justicialist Movement from 1962, as well as in different institutions within the
Governor of Buenos Aires
He founded the Movement for Unity, Solidarity and Organization in September 1982, a reformist faction of the Justicialist Party, ahead of the 1983 return of democracy. The group, known as Renovación Peronista (Peronist Renewal), was defeated in the party's September 1983 nominating convention, however, by more conservative figures supported by Lorenzo Miguel of the Steelworkers' Union. Cafiero was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1985, and in 1987, Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Elected President of the Justicialist Party National Council, he ran in the May 1988 primary election for the upcoming presidential campaign. He failed to regain the support of the CGT, or to sway delegates from the smaller provinces, and lost to less well-known Carlos Menem, who subsequently won the 1989 general election.
Later career
Menem appointed Cafiero
Cafiero was re-elected as Senator in 2001. The aging lawmaker, who had severe hearing loss by then, took leave to act as
Cafiero was formally accused in 2006, along with Isabel Perón and several of her former ministers, of involvement in the
Cafiero served as President of COPPPAL, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, from 2005 to 2011.[9]
He died on 13 October 2014 in Buenos Aires.[10]
References
- ^ Official website.
- ^ a b "Antonio Cafiero: soy leyenda". La Nación.
- ^ Designan a Juan Pablo Cafiero embajador ante el Vaticano, La Nación, 22 October 2008.
- ^ El Frepaso aceptó regresar al Gobierno con Juan Pablo Cafiero como ministro Archived 2008-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, Clarín, 26 April 2001.
- ^ Un dialoguista muy vinculado con la Iglesia, La Nación, 20 September 2008.
- ^ "Qué dice la Ley Cafiero". Infobae. Archived from the original on 2012-03-28. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ Clarín, 9 November 2006. Conceden la eximición de prisión a Cafiero en una causa por desaparecidos durante la dictadura Archived 2010-04-30 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Nuncamas.org. Trial of the Juntas, 22 April 1985. Testimony of Antonio Cafiero Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Autoridades". COPPPAL. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25.
- ^ Legendary Peronist leader Antonio Cafiero dies at 92