17 Facts About Antonio Cafiero

Antonio Francisco Cafiero was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.

Antonio Cafiero joined Catholic Action in 1938, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, becoming President of the Students' Association.

Antonio Cafiero 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.

Antonio Cafiero became a militant Peronist from the 17 October 1945 mass demonstrations in support of populist leader Juan Peron, and entered public service in 1952 as Minister of Foreign Trade in the latter's administration, serving until 1954.

Antonio Cafiero married the former Ana Goitia, and they had ten children.

Antonio Cafiero lost his wife of fifty years, Ana Goitia, in 1994.

Antonio Cafiero had been a national deputy for the Peronists and for FrePaSo, Minister for Social Development under Presidents Fernando de la Rua and Eduardo Duhalde, and as Minister of Security for Buenos Aires Province.

Antonio Cafiero held offices in the National Justicialist Movement from 1962, as well as in different institutions within the Justicialist Party at the national level and in Buenos Aires Province.

Antonio Cafiero grappled with the aftermath of the June 1975 Rodrigazo with no success, and he was dismissed in February 1976, serving briefly as Ambassador to the Holy See until the March 1976 coup.

Antonio Cafiero 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.

Antonio Cafiero was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1985, and in 1987, Governor of Buenos Aires Province.

Antonio Cafiero 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.

Antonio Cafiero took part in the convention negotiating the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution, which allowed for Menem's re-election.

Shortly before the historic, June 30,1996, elections to these posts Senator Antonio Cafiero succeeded in limiting the city's autonomy by advancing National Law 24.588, which reserved control of the Argentine Federal Police, the Port of Buenos Aires and other faculties to the national government.

The controversial bill, popularly known afterward as Ley Antonio Cafiero was signed in 1996 by President Menem, remaining a sticking point between successive Presidents and Buenos Aires Mayors.

Antonio Cafiero was formally accused in 2006, along with Isabel Peron and several of her former ministers, of involvement in the forced disappearance of a minor in 1976.

Antonio Cafiero died on 13 October 2014 in Buenos Aires.