Justo Pastor Benítez
Justo Pastor Benítez (28 May 1897 – 7 February 1963) was a Paraguayan historian, writer, and Liberal politician. Biography On 28 May 1897, Benítez was born in Asunción. He studied law at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (where he would later be a professor), was editor for the El Liberal and El Diario periodicals from 1919 onwards, a national deputy between 1920 and 1927 and Minister of Justice in 1930; in the 1930s, he would occupy several other cabinet positions. In the Liberal Party, he formed a group with , R. Antonio Ramos, Efraím Cardozo, and Julio César Chaves., doi-access=free In May 1932, as Foreign Minister and responding to Carlos Saavedra Lamas (the Argentine foreign minister)'s inquiry on Paraguayan intentions in the Chaco War, Benítez demanded that Bolivia adhered to the law of war and that the League of Nations monitored the conflict fairly. In June 1934, Benítez was replaced as, like his predecessor Daniel Sánchez Bustamante, he advocated for a ...
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