Jorge Zorreguieta was born in 1928 in Buenos Aires, the son of Cesina Maria Stefanini Borella and Juan Antonio Zorreguieta Bonorino.
15 Facts About Jorge Zorreguieta
1.
2.
Jorge Zorreguieta became secretary of La Sociedad Rural Argentina, a conservative interest group of landowners and ranchers.
3.
Jorge Zorreguieta was president of the association Juan de Garay, a cultural institution of the Basque community.
4.
Jorge Zorreguieta was preceded by Mario Cadenas Madariaga, and succeeded by Jorge Aguado as Minister of Agriculture and Livestock.
5.
The INTA, a research institute associated with Jorge Zorreguieta's ministry was put under the control of the Argentine Navy after the Videla-Coup.
6.
Jorge Zorreguieta became president of the Centro Argentino Azucarero, an advisory body for sugar producers in Argentina.
7.
People who had been ministers under the military government were prosecuted for violations of human rights; Jorge Zorreguieta, who had left political office before the end, was not affected.
8.
Jorge Zorreguieta became chairman of the supervisory organization for food Coordinadora de la Industria de Productos Alimenticios.
9.
Jorge Zorreguieta married Marta Lopez Gil was born on 1935 and in 1956.
10.
The news of Prince Willem-Alexander's relationship and eventual marriage plans to Maxima Jorge Zorreguieta caused controversy in the Netherlands.
11.
Jorge Zorreguieta had resigned one year before the end of the Videla regime and claimed that, as a civilian, he was unaware of the Dirty War while he was a cabinet minister.
12.
Professor Michiel Baud, who on request of the Dutch Parliament carried out an inquiry on the involvement of Jorge Zorreguieta, concluded that it would have been unlikely for a person in such a powerful position in the government to be unaware of the Dirty War.
13.
Jorge Zorreguieta was not present at the investiture of his son-in-law Willem-Alexander as King of the Netherlands on 30 April 2013 in Amsterdam.
14.
Jorge Zorreguieta died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 89, on 8 August 2017.
15.
Jorge Zorreguieta was survived by his second wife and seven children.