Luis Andrés Argaña

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Luis Andrés Avelino Argaña Benegas (born November 10, 1897 in Asunción ; † September 13, 1957 ) was a Paraguayan lawyer and politician who was foreign minister from 1940 to 1944.

Life

Luis Andrés Argaña, son of Jaime E. Argaña and Dorila Benegas, completed an undergraduate degree at the Colegio Nacional in Asunción after attending school , from which he graduated in 1913 with a Bachiller . A subsequent study at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA) he finished in 1919 with a doctorate in law . He then worked there himself as a professor of commercial law and in 1936 dean of the UNA's Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.

In 1937 he was one of the founders of the daily newspaper El Tiempo , from which the group Tiempistas of right-wing Catholic intellectuals emerged. Shortly afterwards he took over the office of Minister for Justice, Religion and Public Education (Ministro de Justicia, Culto e Instrucción Pública) in the government of President Félix Paiva between August 11, 1937 and August 15, 1939 . He was also temporarily acting Minister for War and Navy (Ministro de Guerra y Marina) and Finance Minister (Ministro de Haciendo) in 1937 . In 1939 he became dean of the UNA's Faculty of Economics and a delegate at the Inter-American Legal Conference in Montevideo .

In the first government of President Higinio Morínigo , Argaña served as Foreign Minister (Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores) from September 1940 to March 1944 , after Morínigo clashed with the Partido Liberal and appointed four Tiempistas to his government. He also served as President of the Council of State from 1941 to 1943, and in this function was head of the delegation at the Regional Economic Conference in Montevideo in 1941 and at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1942 . In 1944, the Tiempistas lost their influence and their government offices after President Morínigo aligned his position of power with the Frente de Guerra .

After leaving the government, Luis Andrés Argaña resumed teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción. From his marriage to Felicita Ferraro Luis Maria Argaña , who was also Foreign Minister between 1989 and 1990 and Vice-President from 1998 to 1999, and who was murdered on March 23, 1999. His son Félix Argaña was a candidate for Vice-President in 2000, while his other son Nelson Argaña was Minister of Defense in the government of President Luis Ángel González Macchi and Member of the Parliament of the South American Common Market Mercosur between March 1999 and August 2000 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La democracia orgánica a través de El tiempo , p. 25, Editorial Tiempo Nuevo, 2007
  2. ^ R. Andrew Nickson: Historical Dictionary of Paraguay , p. 574, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015
  3. ↑ Paraguay: Foreign Ministers
  4. ↑ Luis Andrés Argaña in prabook.com
  5. ↑ Luis Andrés Argaña in rulers.org
  6. ^ Félix Argaña in rulers.org
  7. ↑ Paraguay: March 23, 1999
  8. ↑ Paraguay: August 18, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Argaña, Luis Andrés
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Argaña Benegas, Luis Andrés Avelino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Paraguayan politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Asunción
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1957