14 Facts About Hugo Moyano

Hugo Moyano was born on January 9,1944 and is an Argentine labour leader who was secretary general of the CGT, the country's largest trade union, from 2004 to 2012.

Hugo Moyano was the president of Club Atletico Independiente, one of the biggest football clubs in the country, and treasurer of the Argentine Football Association.

Hugo Moyano is the founder and leader of the Party of Culture, Education and Labour.

Hugo Moyano was elected shop steward in 1962 and soon became a leader in the Mar del Plata local of the Teamsters' Union, a member of the CGT labour federation.

Hugo Moyano married three times: to Olga Mariani, to Patricia Villares and to Liliana Zulet.

Hugo Moyano reached an agreement with the right-wing National University Round Table to jointly establish the Peronist Union Youth in 1973.

Hugo Moyano stepped down from his position following his first term in 1991 to assume the speakership of the National Teamsters' Union, and was elected its adjunct secretary general in 1992.

The collapse of de la Rua's government in late 2001 made way for the parliamentary selection of former Buenos Aires Province governor, Eduardo Duhalde, whose alliance to Hugo Moyano helped lead to the gathering of most of the CGT under a trio of Hugo Moyano, Susana Rueda of the Nurses' Union and Jose Luis Lingieri of the Water Works Union.

Amid the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector over a planned rise in export taxes, Hugo Moyano proposed the creation of a "CGT-TV" and a related radio station.

Hugo Moyano secured his re-election as CGT head and retained the support of 134 unions, including most of the larger ones.

The Teamsters' Union, by then headed by the CGT leader's son Pablo Hugo Moyano, staged a blockade of Buenos Aires distribution plants operated by Clarin and La Nacion, the nation's two leading newspapers, on November 6,2009.

Hugo Moyano lost his second wife and a son due to health problems during 2011.

Hugo Moyano resigned his executive posts within the Justicialist Party, including that of president of the Buenos Aires Province chapter, in February 2012 following a two-year tenure.

Hugo Moyano is the father-in-law of the current Argentine Football Association president, Claudio Tapia.