11 Facts About Marcelo Guinle

Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.

Marcelo Guinle served as a Senator for Chubut Province and was the president of the Supreme Court of Chubut until his death.

Marcelo Guinle served as a legal adviser to the state-owned energy firm YPF from 1974 to 1979, and entered afterward into a private practice in Chubut Province as a labor lawyer.

Marcelo Guinle was later appointed as a Civil, Commercial and Labor Judge on the Comodoro Rivadavia circuit and on the Chamber of Appeals of both Trelew and Comodoro Rivadavia.

Marcelo Guinle married Lilia Castillo, and has three sons and three grandsons.

Marcelo Guinle entered politics as Government Secretary for the Municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia in 1986.

Marcelo Guinle was appointed Minister of Government, Education and Justice for Chubut Province by the newly elected Governor Nestor Perl in 1987, and he served in the post until 1989.

Marcelo Guinle was among those elected to the National Constitutional Convention of 1994 to reform the Constitution of Argentina and in 1995 he was elected Mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia.

Marcelo Guinle ran in 1999 as the Justicialist Party candidate for governor of Chubut Province, but lost to Jose Luis Lizurume of the center-left Alliance.

Marcelo Guinle meanwhile earned a degree in Accountancy from the University of Moron in 2000.

Marcelo Guinle served in the post until February 2006, and remained in the Senate in the majority Front for Victory caucus established by President Nestor Kirchner.