Guillermo Moreno
| Guillermo Moreno | |
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| Secretary of Domestic Trade | |
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In office 2005–2013 |
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| Under-Secretary of Production for the City of Buenos Aires | |
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In office 1990–1993 |
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| Born | October 15, 1955 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Frente para la Victoria |
| Residence | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma mater | Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, BA in Economics |
Guillermo Moreno (b. Buenos Aires, October 15, 1955) is an Argentine politician. He served from 2005 to 2013 as Secretary of Domestic Trade, a position to which he was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner and in which he remained under the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner until his resignation, in the midst of scandal, in November 2013. He was found guilty in March 2014 of abuse of authority and is currently economic attaché at the Argentinian embassy in Rome.
A 2011 Financial Times (FT) article stated that Moreno was widely viewed as “Argentina’s de facto economy minister.” Moreno, wrote the Infobae news website in 2013, “is the man who drives the economy of Argentina.” He was also described during his cabinet tenure as “the person most reviled by businesses – good and bad alike – in Argentina.”
At the time of his resignation, Bloomberg News described Moreno as “the most feared government official” who had spent eight years “controlling prices and imports using strong-arm tactics that earned him a reputation as a bully.”Mercopress, in 2010, called him “a controversial but all-powerful thug-style figure from the Kirchner bunker.”
Moreno’s parents were Victoria and Mario Antonio Moreno Bravo. He grew up in the southern suburbs of Buenos Aires. In 1970, the Moreno family purchased a house in the neighborhood of Villa Lugano. During the years that followed, Moreno began to be politically active. He is said to have been an active member of the left-wing group Peronist Youth, which favored a Castro-style revolution in Argentina, although some acquaintances have said he was an extreme Catholic activist. By 1982, he had become a “militant” Peronist. After democracy returned to Argentina, he opened a hardware store, Distribuidora America, in the town of San Martin, and completed his degree in Economics at the Argentine University of Business (UADE).
His first government position was Under-Secretary of Production in the Buenos Aires City Government, under mayor Carlos Grosso, in the early 1990s. He later became an assistant to the Trade Secretary during the Presidency of Eduardo Duhalde (2002–2003). Moreno was linked with economists Eduardo Curia, Pablo Challú, and Daniel Carbonetto and with union leader Omar Viviani. He was also an advisor to the Argentine Workers Movement (MTA).
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