56 Facts About Eduardo Duhalde

Eduardo Duhalde served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.

Eduardo Duhalde was deposed during the 1976 Argentine coup d'etat, and elected again when democracy was restored in 1983.

Eduardo Duhalde was elected vice-president of Argentina in 1989, under President Carlos Menem.

Eduardo Duhalde ran for president in 1999, being defeated by Fernando de la Rua.

Eduardo Duhalde successfully supported the candidate Nestor Kirchner against Menem, who sought a new presidential term.

Eduardo Duhalde had political disputes with Kirchner in later years, and is largely retired from politics since his defeat in the 2011 presidential elections.

Eduardo Duhalde has been accused of having connections to drug trafficking, but there is no evidence of this.

Eduardo Alberto Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires region.

Eduardo Duhalde was elected to the city legislature the next year, and presided over it.

Eduardo Duhalde joined the Justicialist Party, and soon became leader of its local branch.

Many members of the Peronist Youth were killed in Lomas de Zamora during the Pasco massacre, which Eduardo Duhalde blamed on the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance.

Eduardo Duhalde was ousted from office during the 1976 Argentine coup d'etat.

Eduardo Duhalde worked as a real estate broker during the following years.

Democratic rule was restored in 1983, and Eduardo Duhalde ran for mayor of Lomas de Zamora.

The elections ended in a technical tie with the candidate of the Radical Civic Union, Horacio Devoy; Eduardo Duhalde won by just 700 votes.

Eduardo Duhalde reported that a colonel sought his support for a possible coup against the newly elected president Raul Alfonsin.

Eduardo Duhalde was elected national deputy in 1987, and became vice president of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

Eduardo Duhalde established a commission to fight drug addiction during his term of office.

Eduardo Duhalde did not like the legislative work, and preferred to work with the actual administration of a district.

Menem suggested that he run for governor of the populous Buenos Aires Province, which Eduardo Duhalde accepted on the condition of a great budget aid to the province.

Eduardo Duhalde was elected governor, ending the political influence of Cafiero.

Eduardo Duhalde intended to run for the presidency in 1995, after Menem's term in office.

Unable to defeat Menem in the primary elections, Eduardo Duhalde promoted an amendment of the provincial constitution, to allow reelection as well.

The referendum allowed the re-election of Eduardo Duhalde, who won the main elections as well.

Eduardo Duhalde increased his criticism of Menem, stating that he should leave the neoliberal policies and head a government closer to the Peronist doctrines.

Eduardo Duhalde announced his intentions to run for president in 1999 shortly after the 1995 elections, leading to a fierce dispute with Menem.

Eduardo Duhalde encouraged the governor of Tucuman, Palito Ortega, to run for the presidency as well.

The political image of Eduardo Duhalde was tarnished by a number of scandals that took place, and issues revealed by investigative journalists.

De la Rua thought that Eduardo Duhalde had organized a coup d'etat against him Rodolfo Terragno, De la Rua's Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers, thought instead that the crisis was the exclusive result of keeping the peso-dollar parity despite the costs generated by it.

Eduardo Duhalde called for a meeting with governors in Chapadmalal, but only six governors out of twenty-three attended.

Eduardo Duhalde resigned a few days later, and accused Duhalde of plotting against him, along with the governor of Cordoba, Jose Manuel de la Sota.

Menem, who still had legislators loyal to him, wanted to prevent Eduardo Duhalde from becoming president, and proposed to appoint the governor of Misiones Ramon Puerta instead.

Puerta talked with Eduardo Duhalde, and opined that without De la Rua and Alvarez he was the politician with the highest legitimacy to be appointed president, as he had placed second in the 1999 elections and won the 2001 legislative elections in the Buenos Aires province, the district of Argentina with the largest population.

The radicals' support allowed Eduardo Duhalde to govern for the remainder of De la Rua's term of office, instead of governing for 90 days and calling for new elections, as was the case of Rodriguez Saa.

Eduardo Duhalde announced at his inauguration that he would repeal the convertibility plan, considered the main cause of the economic crisis.

Eduardo Duhalde promised in his oath of office speech that "Those who deposited dollars [would] receive dollars".

Peronist governors, legislators, and union leaders met at the Quinta de Olivos, amid rumors that Eduardo Duhalde would appoint the populist Daniel Carbonetto as minister of economy.

Eduardo Duhalde was suggested by Governor Carlos Ruckauf and supported by Alfonsin.

Eduardo Duhalde stabilised prices and the exchange rate with tight fiscal and monetary policies, and prevented the crisis from growing into a hyperinflation.

Menem wanted to run for a new term as president in the 2003 election, and Eduardo Duhalde wanted to prevent it.

Eduardo Duhalde speculated that, although Menem had a large number of willing voters to begin with, he was very unpopular.

Eduardo Duhalde sought to strike a balance between both options, and eventually leaned towards the second when the US refused to help Argentina.

Still, Eduardo Duhalde proposed to send peacekeeping troops, and strongly criticized the regime of Saddam Hussein and international terrorism.

Eduardo Duhalde increased his criticism of the United States during the final years of his government, and changed the vote in relation to Cuba to an abstention.

The devaluation caused a diplomatic conflict with Spain, as Eduardo Duhalde did not allow the Spanish service providers to raise taxes.

The taxes were not raised, but Aznar stayed on good terms with Eduardo Duhalde, and ratified the good relations with the country regardless of the victor of the 2003 elections.

Eduardo Duhalde was succeeded by Nestor Kirchner on 25 May 2003.

Kirchner soon distanced himself from Eduardo Duhalde, and removed all the people close to Eduardo Duhalde from the government to reduce his political influence.

On 23 December 2009, Eduardo Duhalde announced his intention to run for the presidency in the 2011 presidential elections.

Eduardo Duhalde organized the Federal Peronism faction, with members of the PJ opposing the Kirchners.

Eduardo Duhalde withdrew his candidacy near the end of the primary elections.

Eduardo Duhalde ran for president as well, on the Union Popular ticket.

Eduardo Duhalde worked as a pool lifeguard before embarking on his political career.

Eduardo Duhalde met Hilda Gonzalez at the pool in 1970 and they married the following year.

Eduardo Duhalde has largely retired from politics since his defeat in the 2011 elections.

Eduardo Duhalde sought to make amends with Menem for their past political rivalry, and met him during the 2013 papal inauguration of Pope Francis.