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Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín ( Chascomús, 12 marzo 1927 – Buenos Aires, 31 marzo 2009) è stato un politico argentino; è stato presidente dell'Argentina dal 10 dicembre 1983 all'8 luglio 1989 . L'ex presidente argentino Raúl Ricardo Alfonsin con Kirchner nel maggio 2004.
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (escuchar ⓘ) (Chascomús, provincia de Buenos Aires, 12 de marzo de 1927-Buenos Aires, 31 de marzo de 2009) fue un abogado, político, estadista y promotor de los derechos humanos argentino.
- Early Life and Career
- Presidential Campaign
- Presidency
- Later Years
- Death
- Legacy
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Raúl Alfonsín was born on 12 March 1927, in the city of Chascomús, 123 km (76 mi) south of Buenos Aires. His parents, who worked as shopkeepers, were Serafín Raúl Alfonsín Ochoa and Ana María Foulkes. His father was of Galician and German descent, and his mother was the daughter of Welsh immigrant Ricardo Foulkes and Falkland Islander María Elena F...
Alfonsín was appointed candidate of the UCR for the 1983 general elections, with Víctor Martínez as the candidate for the vice-presidency. Fernando de la Rúa, who would have run in the primary elections against him, declined his candidacy because of Alfonsín's huge popularity. The UCR proposed Alfonsín to run with De la Rúa as the candidate for the...
First days
The presidential inauguration of Alfonsín was attended by Isabel Perón. Despite internal recriminations for the defeat, the Peronist party agreed to support Alfonsín as president, to prevent a return of the military. There were still factions in the military ambitious to keep an authoritarian government, and groups such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayoseeking reparations for the actions of the military during the Dirty War. Three days after taking office, Alfonsín sent a bill to Congress t...
Aftermath of the Dirty War
The priority of Raúl Alfonsín was to consolidate democracy, incorporate the armed forces into their standard role in a civilian government, and prevent further military coups. Alfonsín first tried to reduce the political power of the military with budget cuts, reductions of military personnel and changing their political tasks. As for the crimes committed during the Dirty War, Alfonsín was willing to respect the command responsibility and accept the "superior orders" defense for the military...
Relation with trade unions
During his tenure, Alfonsin clashed with labor unions in Argentina over economic reforms and trade liberalization policies. Peronism still controlled the labor unions, the most powerful ones in all of Latin America. The biggest one was the General Confederation of Labour (CGT). Alfonsín sought to reduce the Peronist influence over the unions, fearing that they may become a destabilizing force for the fledgling democracy. He rejected their custom of holding single-candidate internal elections,...
Amid rampant inflation, Angeloz was heavily defeated by PJ candidate Carlos Menemin the 1989 election. By the winter of 1989, the inflation had grown so severe that Alfonsín transferred power to Menem on 8 July, five months earlier than scheduled. Alfonsín stayed on as president of the UCR, leaving after the party's defeat in the 1991 legislative e...
Alfonsín died at home on 31 March 2009, at the age of 82, after being diagnosed a year before with lung cancer. The streets around his house at the Santa Fe avenue were filled with hundreds of people, who started a candlelight vigil. The radical Julio Cobos, Fernández de Kirchner's vice president, was the acting president at the moment and ordered ...
Historians Félix Luna, Miguel Angel de Marco, and Fernando Rocchi all praise the role of Raúl Alfonsín in the aftermath of the Dirty War and the restoration of democracy. Luna also considers that Alfonsín was an effective president and that he set an example of not using the state for personal profit. De Marco points out that it was a delicate time...
La cuestión argentina. Propuesta Argentina. 1981. ISBN 9505490488.Qué es el radicalismo. Círculo de lectores. 1983. ISBN 9500701812.Ahora: mi propuesta política. Sudamericana. 1983. ISBN 9503700086.Inédito: una batalla contra la dictadura. Legasa. 1986. ISBN 9506000883.Burns, Jimmy (1987). The land that lost its heroes: the Falklands, the post-war, and Alfonsín. London: Bloomsbury Publishing LDT. ISBN 0-7475-0002-9.Hedges, Jill (2011). Argentina: A modern history. United States: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84885-654-7.Lagleyze, Julio Luqui (2010). Grandes biografías de los 200 años: Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín. Argentina: Clarín. ISBN 978-987-07-0836-0.Lewis, Daniel (2015). The History of Argentina. United States: ABC Clio. ISBN 978-1-61069-860-3.Media related to Raúl Alfonsínat Wikimedia CommonsSpanish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Raúl AlfonsínSpanish Wikiquote has quotations related to: Raúl AlfonsínRaúl Alfonsín (born March 12, 1927, Chascomús, Argentina—died March 31, 2009, Buenos Aires) was the civilian president of Argentina (1983–89), elected after eight years of military rule, and leader of the moderate Radical Civic Union (Spanish: Unión Cívica Radical, or UCR).
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Raúl Alfonsín. (Raúl Alfonsín Foulkes; Chascomús, Buenos Aires, 1927 - 2009) Político argentino que fue presidente de la República Argentina entre 1983 y 1989. Abogado y periodista, comenzó a participar en política al ingresar en el Movimiento de Intransigencia y Renovación de la Unión Cívica Radical (nada más llegar al poder creó ...
1 apr 2009 · Raúl Alfonsín, whose presidency in the 1980s symbolized the return of democracy in Argentina and other Latin American nations after an era of military dictatorships, died Tuesday at his home in...
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (born 1927) was an Argentine politician who opposed the ruling military junta from 1976 to 1982. In 1983 Alfonsín was elected president of Argentina. Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín was born in Chascomús, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on March 13, 1927.
