María Dora "Anahí" Sánchez (27 August 1949 – 24 January 2011) was an Argentine
teacher
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and
politician
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from the
Radical Civic Union
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, who served as
National Senator for
Corrientes Province
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from 2003 to 2009.
Biography
Born in
Sauce (Corrientes) in 1949,
she was a national normal teacher since 1967, working in the city of
Mercedes. She served in the private sphere between 1975 and 1989.
She began her political career in 1989 as Secretary of the Deliberative Council of Mercedes, until 1991 when she was elected councilor in that town, with a mandate until 1995. From that year until 2003 she was director of Culture in the Municipality of Mercedes, designated by the then mayor
Ricardo Colombi
Ricardo Colombi (born August 30, 1957) is an Argentine lawyer and politician elected Governor of Corrientes Province in 2009.
Life and times
Ricardo Horacio Colombi was born in Mercedes, a Corrientes Province agricultural and cattle ranching hub ...
.
In 2003 she was elected
national senator for the
province of Corrientes, with a mandate until 2009. In that period she was a member of the Administrative and Municipal Affairs commissions; Agriculture, Livestock and fishing; Rights and Guarantees; Health and Sports; Environment and Sustainable Development; and Federal Tax Co-participation.
In 2007 sha was conventional in the reform of the Constitution of the Province of Corrientes.
At the party level, she chaired the Committee of the
Radical Civic Union
The Radical Civic Union (, UCR) is a major political party in Argentina. It has reached the national government on ten occasions, making it one of the most historically important parties in the country. Ideologically, the party has stood for r ...
of the city of
Mercedes between 1999 and 2001, being elected again in 2003.
She died in January 2011 at the age of 61 while she was admitted to the
Hospital Británico de Buenos Aires
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.
See also
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Politics of Argentina
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*
List of former Argentine Senators
References
External links
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Dora Sánchez" from Spanish Wikipedia, published b
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Living people
People from Sauce, Corrientes
Members of the Argentine Senate for Corrientes
Women members of the Argentine Senate
Radical Civic Union politicians
21st-century Argentine women politicians
21st-century Argentine politicians
1949 births
20th-century Argentine women politicians
20th-century Argentine politicians
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