Carlos Álvarez (Argentine politician)
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Carlos Alberto "Chacho" Álvarez (born 26 December 1948) is an Argentine politician. He was
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during the first 10 months of President Fernando de la Rúa's term, and headed the
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Secretariat from 2011 to 2017.


Biography

Álvarez was born in
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. His father was a
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worker, and the younger Álvarez's first experience in politics would be in the splinter
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CGT de los Argentinos, formed in 1968 by
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. He earned his degree in history at the
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. Álvarez married three times in his youth: Marta Chojo, Gloria López Lecube, and Liliana Chiernajowsky. He had two daughters with his second wife, though his third marriage would be the most enduring. He met Liliana Chiernajowsky, who had spent 7 years as a
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during the
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, shortly after her release in 1981. They had one daughter. He served as an adviser at the Regional Economies Commission of the
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from 1983 to 1989. Álvarez established ''Unidos'' in 1985, a periodical in support of the progressive wing of the
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that would become influential in Argentine universities through the student organization APU. He was elected National Deputy for the Justicialist Party in 1989, but split from the party shortly afterward over disagreements with President
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's turn to the right, creating an independent caucus known as The Group of Eight. Álvarez joined a group of politicians of different progressive parties, as well as former Justicialists, in 1991 to create the
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coalition party. He was again elected congressman for the 1993–97 period, as well as a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the
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. He took part in the creation of the FrePaSo coalition in 1994. Nominated candidate for vice-president on
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's ticket, they obtained second place in the 1995 presidential elections. FrePaSo joined the
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in 1997 to form the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education (usually known as the ''Alianza''). Álvarez was reelected that year to the Chamber of Deputies, this time within the Alianza, in 1997. He ran again as a vice-presidential nominee in 1999, and was elected
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with Alianza nominee Fernando de la Rúa in the 1999 presidential elections. Revelations of bribery on the part of President de la Rúa in the passage of a labour flexibility law bill in 2000 led Álvarez to resign his post on 6 October 2000, denouncing corruption in the administration and in the Senate. His resignation was followed a year later by de la Rúa's own resignation in the face of the
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. He retired from public life for five years. His marriage to Liliana Chiernajowsky ended, and his notable later relationships included those with politician Vilma Ibarra and actress
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. He was appointed as President of Mercosur's permanent representatives committee, CRPM (''Comisión de Representantes Permanentes del Mercosur''). He took office on 9 December 2005, was reelected in 2007, and served until December 2009. Álvarez underwent vascular bypass surgery in 2009, and recovered. He took office as General Secretary of the Latin American regional trade organization,
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(''Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración''), on 1 September 2011 and served in that capacity for six years.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alvarez, Carlos 1948 births Living people People from Buenos Aires Argentine people of Spanish descent University of Buenos Aires alumni Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Vice presidents of Argentina Justicialist Party politicians Front for a Country in Solidarity politicians Broad Front (Argentina) politicians