24 Facts About Guillermo Moreno

Guillermo Moreno was born on 15 October 1955 and is an Argentine politician.

Guillermo Moreno served from 2005 to 2013 as Secretary of Domestic Trade, a position to which he was appointed by President Nestor Kirchner and in which he remained under the presidency of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner until his resignation, in the midst of scandal, in November 2013.

Guillermo Moreno was found guilty in March 2014 of abuse of authority and was economic attache at the Argentine embassy in Rome.

Guillermo Moreno grew up in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires.

In 1970, the Guillermo Moreno family purchased a house in the neighborhood of Villa Lugano.

Guillermo Moreno is said to have been an active member of the left-wing group Peronist Youth, which is most well known for its resistance to dictatorships in Argentina, although some acquaintances have said he was a Catholic activist.

Guillermo Moreno later became an assistant to the Trade Secretary during the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde.

Guillermo Moreno was an advisor to the Argentine Workers Movement.

Guillermo Moreno later served as an advisor to Pablo Challu at the Ministry of Domestic Trade and as an official in the Ministry for the Protection of Competition, both under the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde.

Guillermo Moreno became close to Nestor Kirchner before Kirchner became president in 2003.

Guillermo Moreno was one of the members of the Calafate Group, a think-tank created by Kirchner and others as a forum to foster ideas that would reverse the neo-liberal policies of the 1990s.

In Kirchner's government, Guillermo Moreno served as Secretary of Communications for a few months in 2005.

Guillermo Moreno was named Secretary of Domestic Trade by Nestor Kirchner in November 2005.

Guillermo Moreno remained in the post after Kirchner was succeeded in the presidency by his wife, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, in 2007.

Guillermo Moreno was seen at an event running his fingers across his throat, indicating Lousteau was playing a fatal game: the minister indeed lost his job, while Guillermo Moreno has gone from strength to strength.

Guillermo Moreno refused, on the grounds that the Secrecy Act forbade her to disclose such information to him.

Guillermo Moreno allegedly followed these moves by having phones tapped and using other surveillance methods to control internal disagreements at the bureau.

The Telegraph reported in October 2013 that Guillermo Moreno had ordered major Argentine retailers the previous February not to advertise in media owned by Clarin, or in La Nacion and Perfil.

Guillermo Moreno reportedly pressured Argentina's leading importers to boycott US companies.

In September 2013, Guillermo Moreno was prosecuted before Judge Claudio Bonadio for dereliction of duty and abuse of authority in the INDEC matter.

Todesca had been economy vice-minister under Eduardo Duhalde and was one of more than a dozen experts whom Guillermo Moreno had fined 500,000 pesos apiece in 2010 for disseminating a version of the Consumer Price Index that differed from the official CPI.

Guillermo Moreno resigned his cabinet position on November 19,2013, effective December 2.

When President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrived in Rome in March 2014 to visit the Pope, Guillermo Moreno met her at the airport.

Guillermo Moreno was married in the early eighties to a psychologist, of Syrian Jewish origin.