Arturo Puricelli
| Arturo Puricelli | |
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| Minister of Security of Argentina | |
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In office June 3, 2013 – December 4, 2013 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Nilda Garré |
| Succeeded by | María Cecilia Rodríguez |
| Minister of Defense of Argentina | |
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In office December 15, 2010 – June 3, 2013 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Nilda Garré |
| Succeeded by | Agustín Rossi |
| Governor of Santa Cruz Province | |
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In office December 10, 1983 – December 10, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Antonio López |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo del Val |
| Personal details | |
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October 8, 1947 Río Gallegos |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Alma mater | National University of the Littoral |
Arturo Puricelli (born October 8, 1947) is an Argentine lawmaker. He served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province (1983-87), and as the country's Minister of Defense (2010-13) and Security (2013).
Arturo Antonio Puricelli was born in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. He enrolled at the National University of the Littoral, and became affiliated with the populist Justicialist Party. Earning a Law Degree in 1973, he returned to Santa Cruz, was named Inspector General of the Provincial Justice Ministry, and in 1975, was appointed Minister of Social Policy.
He started a private law practice, Puricelli & Associates, after the March 1976 coup, when nearly all elected officials were removed. The dictatorship ultimately called for elections in 1983, and Puricelli secured his party's nomination as a candidate for governor of Santa Cruz. The victorious Puricelli was among the youngest and, with 56% of the vote, the third-most decisively elected governor that year.
His rival in the primaries, a young banking attorney, Néstor Kirchner, was appointed head of the Provincial Social Security Fund by the new governor. Puricelli hoped this might earn his fledgling administration greater backing from Kirchner's supporters, but the move backfired when in April 1984, the latter refused the governor's request for borrowing from the fund to cover the provincial deficit. As governor, Puricelli pursued a greater share of the hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuel royalties generated largely by the then-state owned oil concern, YPF, and sued the federal government to that effect. He also strove to diversify his remote province's economy, and established the resort town of El Chaltén by way of promoting tourism.
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