Graciela Ocaña
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Deputy of Argentina For Buenos Aires |
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Assumed office 10 December 2011 |
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| Minister of Health of Argentina | |
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In office 10 December 2007 – 29 June 2009 |
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| President | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Ginés González García |
| Succeeded by | Juan Luis Manzur |
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September 16, 1960 San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party |
FREPASO (Before 2001) ARI (2001 - 2003) Front for Victory (2004 - 2009) Union for Social Development (Since 2011) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
Graciela Ocaña (born September 16, 1960) is an Argentine politician.
Ocaña was born and raised in the western Buenos Aires suburb of San Justo in 1960. Raised without her father, she lost her mother to an accident at age five and was taken in by her maternal grandparents, both immigrants from Spain. Ocaña received her primary education at the Santa Rosa de Lima School, an institution maintained by Dominican nuns. She was transferred to the San Justo Secondary School system and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires in 1978, where she graduated with a degree in Political Science in 1983.
Ocaña became affiliated with the Justicialist Party and found work in the private sector, managing a number of import-export businesses in the San Justo area.
Ocaña became disaffected from the Justicialist Party following President Carlos Menem's unexpected adoption of free market policies after taking office and, in 1993, she aligned herself with the eight congressmen who had left the party to form the center-left Frente Grande. An adviser to Buenos Aires Province Congressman "Chacho" Álvarez (the party's leader), she was elected to the Argentine Lower House of Congress as a member of the Frente Grande's successor, FrePaSo, on the Alliance ticket that brought Álvarez to the office of Vice President in 1999.
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