1. Oscar Anibal Castillo was born on 18 January 1954 and is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician, currently a Senator for the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca and a former governor of that province.
10 Facts About Oscar Castillo
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Oscar Castillo is the son of the late Arnoldo Castillo, a leading figure in the Catamarca UCR.
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Oscar Castillo studied at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral becoming a lawyer.
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Oscar Castillo was active in student politics, serving as secretary of his faculty's student union and representing his university at the Buenos Aires University Federation in 1980.
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Oscar Castillo married the former Silvia Brocal, an accountant, and had two children.
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Oscar Castillo served as a provincial deputy in Catamarca, and was UCR-MPC caucus leader.
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Oscar Castillo was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1989 and reelected, serving until 1997.
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Oscar Castillo ran for and was elected governor of Catamarca in 1999, serving until 2003.
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Oscar Castillo's tenure was marked by debates regarding the separation of church and state.
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Oscar Castillo, who had taken his oath as a legislator without mentioning God in two previous occasions, imposed mandatory religious education of a Roman Catholic nature in Catamarca schools; protest from the province's sizable Jewish community and others led to the policy's rescission in 2001, however.