Carlos Ruckauf

Carlos Ruckauf
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office January 2, 2002 – May 25, 2003
President	Eduardo Duhalde
Preceded by	José María Vernet
Succeeded by	Rafael Bielsa
Governor of Buenos Aires Province
In office December 10, 1999 – January 2, 2002
Preceded by	Eduardo Duhalde
Succeeded by	Felipe Solá
31st Vice-President of Argentina
In office July 8, 1995 – December 10, 1999
President	Carlos Saúl Menem
Preceded by	Eduardo Duhalde
Succeeded by	Carlos Álvarez
Personal details
Born	(1944-07-10) July 10, 1944 (age 72) Ramos Mejía
Political party	Justicialist Party

Carlos Federico Ruckauf (born July 10, 1944) is a Peronist politician in Argentina, member of the Justicialist Party. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2002 to March 2003. He had earlier served as Vice-President of Argentina from 1995 to 1999, with Carlos Menem, and as his Interior Minister during his first administration. He was twice elected to the National Assembly following the restoration of democratic rule.

In his early career, he was appointed as a Labor court judge, followed by Minister of Labour in July 1974. He signed decree 261/75 on October 6, 1974, granting blanket amnesty to the Armed Forces for the "annihilation of subversives." It is now considered a step in what became the state's "Dirty War against political dissidents under the military dictatorship that overthrew Isabel Peron.

Carlos Federico Ruckauf was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of Ramos Mejía. His parents separated when he was seven, and he lived in Mar del Plata, Salta, and Buenos Aires during the remainder of his childhood. Ruckauf enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a juris doctor in 1967. He was hired as a fingerprint analyst by an insurance company, and was elected Adjunct Secretary of the Insurance Employees' Union, a member union of the CGT, in 1969. He married María Isabel Zapatero, and they had two children.

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