17 Facts About Arturo Puricelli

Arturo Puricelli was born on October 8,1947 and is an Argentine lawmaker.

Arturo Puricelli served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province, and as the country's Minister of Defense and Security.

Arturo Antonio Puricelli was born in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.

Arturo Puricelli enrolled at the National University of the Littoral, and became affiliated with the populist Justicialist Party.

The dictatorship ultimately called for elections in 1983, and Puricelli secured his party's nomination as a candidate for governor of Santa Cruz.

Arturo Puricelli hoped this might earn his fledgling administration greater backing from Kirchner's supporters, but the move backfired when in April 1984, the latter refused the governor's request for borrowing from the fund to cover the provincial deficit.

Arturo Puricelli strove to diversify his remote province's economy, and established the resort town of El Chalten by way of promoting tourism.

Constitutionally barred from seeking re-election upon the end of his term in 1987, Arturo Puricelli was elected President of the Santa Cruz chapter of the Justicialist Party.

Arturo Puricelli supported veteran party figure Antonio Cafiero, who had just been elected Governor of Buenos Aires Province, as his party's nominee ahead of the 1989 presidential elections, and obtained the support of numerous Santa Cruz Justicialists, including Kirchner, for Cafiero's Renewal Front ticket.

Arturo Puricelli became the Justicialist nominee, and was elected president the following year.

Arturo Puricelli was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies during the same elections.

Arturo Puricelli ran again for governor in 1991, but was defeated in the primaries by Kirchner, who at the time enjoyed President Menem's support.

Arturo Puricelli returned to Santa Cruz and in 1997 was elected to the Provincial Lower House, where despite his differences with Governor Kirchner, he voted in favor of allowing the governor to manage the province's growing oil and gas royalties on an off-budget basis.

Arturo Puricelli later returned to Buenos Aires as vice-president of the National Airports Regulatory Agency.

Arturo Puricelli joined the center-left Alliance, at the time the main party in opposition.

Arturo Puricelli ran as a candidate for governor in that year's elections, and was again defeated by Kirchner.

Arturo Puricelli ran unsuccessfully for Congress, and retired to his ranch in scenic Los Antiguos, where he raised sheep and cultivated cherry orchards.