Antonio Cafiero

Antonio Cafiero (1975)

Antonio Francisco Cafiero (born September 12, 1922 in Buenos Aires , † October 13, 2014 in San Isidro , Buenos Aires) was an Argentine economist , auditor and politician of the Peronist Partido Justicialista .

Life

University professor, follower of Peronism and minister

After attending school, Cafiero completed a degree in economics at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and began working as an auditor in 1944 after completing his studies. In 1948 he earned a doctorate in economics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. His political commitment began during his studies and doctoral studies, when he became president of the AECE (Asociación de Estudiantes de Ciencias Económicas) as a student representative and a member of the board of directors of the UBA's Faculty of Economics in 1944 . In 1952 he took up a position as a lecturer in economics and taught at various universities and colleges until 1984.

As a supporter of the Peronism founded by Juan Perón , Cafiero was appointed by President Perón on July 4, 1952 to succeed Roberto A. Ares as Minister for Foreign Trade (Ministro de Comercio Exterior) in his cabinet and held this position until he was replaced by Julio Manuel Palarea on April 15, 1955. At the beginning of the 1960s, Cafiero increased his political commitment and was initially political advisor and coordinator of the Movimiento Nacional Justicialista between 1962 and 1964 and then until 1966 political secretary of the National Council of the Partido Justicialista. In 1971 he became director of the Planning Council of the Movimiento Nacional Justicialista .

After Perón was re-elected president on September 23, 1973 with over 60% of the vote, Cafiero initially took over the position of trade secretary in his government and then succeeded Carlos Mendoza from August 3, 1974 until he was replaced by Luis María Rodríguez Marcó del Pont in May 1975 Federal Inspector for the Province of Mendoza . During the term of office of President Isabel Martínez de Perón , he was appointed to succeed Ernesto Corvalán Nanclares as Minister of Economics (Ministro de Economía) on August 14, 1975 and held this office until he was replaced by Emilio Mondelli on February 3, 1976.

Ambassador, period of military dictatorship, member of parliament and governor of Buenos Aires

Afterwards he was ambassador to the Holy See for a short time . During the following military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 he largely withdrew from political life and concentrated again on teaching as a lecturer in economics.

After the end of the military dictatorship and the return to democracy , Cafiero was elected to the Partido Justicialista on December 10, 1985 as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress (Congreso de la Nación Argentina) , and represented the Chamber of Deputies until December 10, 1987 Buenos Aires interests.

He then took over the post of Governor of Buenos Aires on December 11, 1987 as the successor to Alejandro Armendáriz and held this position for four years until he was replaced by Eduardo Duhalde on December 11, 1991. In his political work as governor he was supported in particular by Luis María Macaya , the then vice governor of the province. Other prominent members of the then provincial government of Buenos Aires were government spokesman Jorge Telerman and agriculture minister Felipe Solá .

During this time he also served as President of the Provincial Council of the Partido Justicialista in the Province of Buenos Aires between 1986 and 1991 and was also President of the National Council of the Partido Justicialista between 1987 and 1990.

In 1992 he was appointed ambassador to Chile by President Carlos Menem , but he stayed in this post for only a few months.

Senator, head of cabinet during the constitutional crisis at the end of 2001 and chairman of COPPPAL

Cafiero as chairman of COPPPAL (2005)

On December 10, 1993, Cafiero was elected for the first time for the Partido Justicialista as a member of the Senate, the upper house of the National Congress, and until December 10, 2001 also represented the interests of Buenos Aires there. At the same time he took over the function of general secretary of his party's parliamentary group in the Senate. As a senator he took part in the negotiations on the aforementioned Olivos Pact . In it, the Peronist Partido Justicialist and the opposition Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) of the former President Raúl Alfonsín agreed after negotiations behind closed doors, among other things, the call for a reform of the national constitution in 1994 in exchange for a shortening of the presidency from six to made possible the one-time re-election of the president for four years. This made Menem's re-election possible the following year.

When Fernando de la Rúa resigned from the office of president on December 21, 2001 after economic and political unrest, the Argentine constitution actually meant that the vice-president should have assumed the office of president. The Vice President Carlos Álvarez had already resigned his office in October 2000 and this post has been vacant since then. The next in line was therefore, according to the constitution, Ramón Puerta , Chairman of the Senate. However, he was overwhelmed with this task from the start and was happy when he was able to hand over the presidential sash to Adolfo Rodríguez Saá on December 23rd . After just under a week, he could no longer hope for the support of the population and his own party. At a meeting of all Peronist provincial governors that he called on December 30, 2001, only six out of fourteen governors attended. Disappointed, Rodriguez Saá traveled to San Luis and announced his resignation from there. Since Ramón Puerta, Chairman of the Chamber of Senators, had no interest in becoming interim president again, Eduardo Camaño became President of the Chamber of Deputies on December 31, 2001, President of Argentina.

Camaño in turn appointed Cafiero as the successor to Luis Lusquiños as head of cabinet (Jefe de Gabinete de la Nación Argentina) and thus de facto head of government. On January 1st, 2002 Eduardo Duhalde was elected as the new president. He became the fifth president of Argentina in just 13 days. On January 3, 2002, he in turn appointed Jorge Capitanich, a new head of cabinet and thus the successor to Cafieros.

Cafiero resumed his office as a member of the Senate on January 2, 2002 and was a member of the Senate until the end of the legislative period on December 10, 2005.

From 2005 to 2011 he was President of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties in Latin America and the Caribbean COPPPAL (Conferencia Permanente de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe) , an international forum for political parties in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Web links

Commons : Antonio Cafiero  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Legendary Peronist leader Antonio Cafiero dies at 92 . In: Buenos Aires Herald of October 13, 2013
• Short biography in rulers.org
• Private Homepage ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Argentine Ministries (rulers.org)
2. ↑ Argentine Provinces From 1973 (rulers.org)
3. ↑ December 20, 2001 (rulers.org)
4. ↑ Argentina Cabinet Chiefs (rulers.org)