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Carlos Álvarez (politician)

Carlos Álvarez
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General Secretary of ALADI
Assumed office
September 1, 2011
Preceded by José Félix Fernández Estigarribia
President of Mercosur CRPM
In office
December 9, 2005 – December 9, 2009
Preceded by Eduardo Duhalde
Succeeded by Gregorio García Biagosch
32nd Vice-President of Argentina
In office
December 10, 1999 – October 6, 2000
President Fernando de la Rúa
Preceded by Carlos Ruckauf
Succeeded by Daniel Scioli
National Deputy
for the City of Buenos Aires
In office
July 6, 1989 – December 10, 1999
Personal details
Born (1948-12-26) December 26, 1948 (age 68)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Political party FREPASO
Front for Victory
Spouse(s) Marta Chojo
Gloria López Lecube
Liliana Chiernajowsky
Alma mater University of Buenos Aires
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Carlos Alberto "Chacho" Álvarez (born December 26, 1948) is an Argentine politician; he was Vice President of Argentina during part of President Fernando de la Rúa's term, and currently heads the ALADI Secretariat.

Álvarez was born in Buenos Aires. His father was a printing worker, and the younger Álvarez's first experience in politics would be in the splinter trade union CGT de los Argentinos, formed in 1968 by Raimundo Ongaro. He earned his degree in history at the University of Buenos Aires. 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 political prisoner during the Dirty War, shortly after her release in 1981. They had one daughter.

He served as an adviser at the Regional Economies Commission of the Argentine Senate from 1983 to 1989. Álvarez established Unidos in 1985, a periodical in support of the progressive wing of the Justicialist Party 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 Carlos Menem'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 Frente Grande coalition party. He was again elected congressman for the 1993-97 period, as well as a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution. He took part in the creation of the FrePaSo coalition in 1994. Nominated candidate for Vice-President on José Octavio Bordón's ticket, they obtained second place in the 1995 presidential elections.


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