Isaac Rojas

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Isaac Rojas
Alejandro Gómez
Personal details
BornDecember 3, 1906
Buenos Aires
DiedApril 13, 1993(1993-04-13) (aged 86)
Buenos Aires
NationalityArgentine
Political partynone
SpouseLía Edith Sánchez
ProfessionMilitary

Isaac Francisco Rojas Madariaga (December 3, 1906 – April 13, 1993) was an Argentine Admiral of the Navy and de facto Vice President of Argentina. He joined the Argentine Navy and had an unremarkable career until the 1946 election of Juan Perón.

Under Perón

He was

Naval attache in Brazil and Uruguay, and later he became close to the influential First Lady, Eva Perón, and served as her naval aide-de-camp until her death in 1952. He was then named head of the Río Santiago Naval Academy (close to the site of an important naval shipyard), though in August 1955, he was persuaded to take part in the coup d'état that toppled Perón on September 19. Credited with leading the Navy during the rebellion, Rojas obtained Perón's resignation and exile by commandeering the ARA General Belgrano - threatening to bombard the YPF refinery in Ensenada
(then the nation's largest).

Vice president

On 23 September 1955 he was rewarded with the vice presidency at the Navy's insistence, and remained in the post until President

Pedro Aramburu
relinquished power to elected authorities in May 1958.

Rojas imposed a staunch anti-Peronist and anti-Communist as vice president, though he supported Aramburu's call for Constitutional Assembly elections in 1957, overcoming objections from the largely conservative Navy.[1] Peronism was banned, and remained so until 1972.

In 1958 as commander of Naval Operations of the Argentine Navy he was involved in the Snipe incident, when he ordered the destruction of the Chilean lighthouse and its replacement with an Argentine one.[2]

Return to Democracy

Following the return to democracy with the election of President

sinking of the Belgrano during the 1982 conflict.[4]

List of books written by Isaac Rojas

  • "La ofensiva geopolítica brasileña en la Cuenca del Plata",
  • "La Argentina en el Beagle y Atlántico Sur: Parte 1"
  • "Intereses argentinos en la Cuenca del Plata"
  • "Argentina en el Atlántico, Chile en el Pacífico"
  • "Una geopolítica nacional desintegrante"
  • "Memorias del almirante Isaac F. Rojas"
  • "La revolución libertadora"
  • "Memoria sobre la controversia argentino-chilena"
  • "Carlos Pellegrini: su espiritu militar y las fuerzas armadas"
  • "La cuestión del Beagle y de las islas argentinas de la zona austral usurpadas por Chile"

See also

References

  1. ^ Potash, Robert.The Army and Politics in Argentina. Stanford University Press, 1996.
  2. ^ See book of Isaac Francisco Rojas, (compiler), La Argentina en el Beagle y Atlántico sur, (1° Parte), Cap IV, section 4, page 131 :"Yo, en persona, llevé a Ushuaia una baliza luminosa, la que en la segunda quincena de abril fue instalada en el islote Snipe en lugar de la señal chilena violadora del statu quo".
  3. ^ GEOGRAFÍA, GUERRA Y NACIONALISMO. LA SOCIEDAD ARGENTINA DE ESTUDIOS GEOGRÁFICOS (GAEA) EN LAS ENCRUCIJADAS PATRIÓTICAS DEL GOBIERNO MILITAR, 1976-1983 Archived 2011-09-16 at the Wayback Machine by Guillermo Gustavo Cicalesi, 26 March 2009 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ The Independent: Obituary - Admiral Isaac Rojas

External links

Political offices
Preceded by
Vice President of Argentina

1955–1958 		Succeeded by
Alejandro Gómez
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