Enrique Mosca

Enrique Mosca (July 15, 1880 – July 22, 1950) was an Argentine lawyer and politician prominent in the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR).

Life and times

Enrique Mosca was born in

juris doctor from the University of the Province of Santa Fe (today the National University of the Littoral), in 1906.^[1]

Affiliated to the UCR from his years at the university, he helped advance the UCR's push for democratic elections through his post as editor-in-chief of La Argentina, one of Santa Fe's leading newsdailies at the time. Their securing that critical reform in 1912 led to the election of the UCR's leader,

Congress, and in 1920, he was elected governor of his native Santa Fe Province.^[1]

Governor Mosca enacted numerous reforms in office, while keeping a pragmatic agenda. He rescinded annual fees for public primary school students and created the Provincial Library and Archives. He vetoed the replacement of the provincial constitution for the sake of avoiding future conflict; but responded to strikes among

1928 elections, when Yrigoyen was returned to the presidency in a landslide.^[4]

The overthrow of the aging Yrigoyen in 1930 met with vocal opposition from Mosca, despite his enmity towards the former. The dictatorship had him imprisoned in the notorious Ushuaia prison (now a museum) in 1931, by which Mosca's health deteriorated.^[5] Freed in 1934, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by his party's leader, former President Alvear, ahead of the 1937 elections. Amid widespread voter intimidation and fraud, however, the duo was defeated by the ruling party candidate.^[6]

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Edelmiro Farrell to enact his populist agenda and dismissing Tamborini and Mosca as "the tambourine and the fly." The elections, held in February, resulted in a defeat for the Tamborini-Mosca ticket by 11%.^[8]

Enrique Mosca retired from active political life and died in Buenos Aires in 1950, at age 70.

References

^ ^a ^b Historical Dictionary of Argentina. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
^ "Santa Fe: Enrique Mosca" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
^ Historias de la UCR: Alvear (in Spanish)
^ Todo Argentina: 1928 (in Spanish)
^ Diccionario Radical: Mosca (in Spanish)
^ El Fraude Patriótico (in Spanish)
^ Todo Argentina: 1945 (in Spanish)
^ Crassweller, David. Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina. W.W. Norton and Company. 1987.

[scarecrow-1] Historical Dictionary of Argentina. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978.

[2] "Santa Fe: Enrique Mosca" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2009-05-24.

[3] Historias de la UCR: Alvear (in Spanish)

[4] Todo Argentina: 1928 (in Spanish)

[ucr-5] Diccionario Radical: Mosca (in Spanish)

[6] El Fraude Patriótico (in Spanish)

[7] Todo Argentina: 1945 (in Spanish)

[enigmas-8] Crassweller, David. Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina. W.W. Norton and Company. 1987.

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