Arnoldo Castillo
| Arnoldo Castillo | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Catamarca | |
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In office December 10, 1991 – December 10, 1999 |
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| Lieutenant | Simón Hernández |
| Preceded by | Luis Prol |
| Succeeded by | Oscar Castillo |
| Governor of Catamarca | |
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In office March 3, 1981 – December 10, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Oscar Barcena |
| Succeeded by | Ramón Saadi |
| Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca | |
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In office May 19, 1976 – April 3, 1981 |
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| Preceded by | Raúl Blas |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Varela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 29, 1922 Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province |
| Died | September 29, 2005 (aged 83) Catamarca |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Profession | Engineer |
Arnoldo Castillo (April 29, 1922 — September 29, 2005) was an Argentine politician.
Arnoldo Aníbal Castillo was born to Carmen Berrondo and Gualberto Castillo in Quilmes, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1922. His parents relocated to Catamarca, in the Argentine Northwest, early in his childhood. Castillo enrolled at the National University of Córdoba, where he studied mechanical engineering, and at the National University of San Juan, to study mining engineering. Unable to graduate, he was subsequently hired as a public administration clerk at Vialidad Nacional, the National Highway Bureau, and became a specialized advisor in the construction of mountain roads.
His experience took him to Bolivia in 1949, and helped plan that country's stretch of the Pan-American Highway. Returning to Catamarca, he worked as a consultant from 1950 to 1963, when he was elected to the Provincial Legislature on the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR-P) ticket. Castillo was elected Mayor of Catamarca in 1966, in the first direct election for that post in the province's history; a coup d'état that June led to his removal by military authorities, however.
The same regime, represented in Catamarca by de facto Governor Horacio Pernasetti, appointed Castillo interim Mayor of Catamarca in 1971. A subsequent dictatorship again called on Castillo shortly after the March 1976 coup; Castillo resigned his membership in the UCR, and he served in the post until 1981. His membership in the UCR was reinstated after the return of democracy with elections in 1983.
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