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Biography of Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Name: Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
Birth Date: March 13, 1927
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Chascomús, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality: Argentinian
Gender: Male
Occupations: president, politician
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín
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. After completing primary school, he entered the General San Martín Military Academy, graduating five years later as a second lieutenant (reserve). He joined the Unión Cívica Radical (Radical Civic Union, UCR, also known as Radical party) in 1945 and soon became active in the Movimiento de Intransigencia y Renovación (Movement for Intransigence and Renovation). This was a reform movement that attempted to give new life to the Radical party after its defeat in the February 1946 presidential elections which brought Gen. Juan Domingo Perón to power.The same year he joined the Radical party, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…his austerity measures, managed to increase his support in the 1985 congressional elections.Carlos Saul Menem, from the (Peronist) Justicialist Party, was elected President of Argentina in 1989 and re-elected in 1995. Alfonsín remains the leader of the Radical Civic Union Party. Associated Organizations Further Reading There is no full-length biography of Alfonsín in either English or Spanish. For more information on modern Argentine history, James R. Scobie, Argentina: A City and A Nation (1964, 2nd ed. 1971) provides an excellent background. For radicalism, see Peter G. Snow, Argentine Radicalism: The History and Doctrine of the Radical Civic Union (1965); David Rock, Politics in Argentina, 1890-1920: The Rise and Fall of Radicalism (1975); and David Rock (editor), Argentina in the Twentieth Century ( 1975). For current information on the World Wide Web, see: http://www.yendor.com/vanished/conadep.html (information on the disappeared); and http://www.buenosairesherald.com/thisweek/onth1.htm (Buenos Aires news weekly).
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