Hugo Moyano
| Hugo Moyano | |
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| Secretary General of the CGT | |
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Assumed office July 14, 2004 |
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| Preceded by | Rodolfo Daer |
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January 9, 1944 La Plata |
| Nationality | Argentine |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Olga Mariani Patricia Villares Liliana Zulet |
| Occupation | Trade union official |
| Profession | Trucker |
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Hugo Moyano (born January 9, 1944) is an Argentine labour leader and Secretary General of the CGT, the nation's largest trade union, from 2004 to 2012. A schism developed within the CGT during 2012, and Moyano was thus elected to head the CGT's dissident faction. Also is the president of Club Atletico Independiente, one of the biggest football clubs in the country and treasurer of the Argentine Football Association.
Moyano was born in La Plata, in 1944. His family settled in seaside Mar del Plata early in his childhood, and he entered the labour force in his teens as an employee of Expresos y Mudanzas, a local moving company. He was elected shop steward in 1962, and soon became a leader in the Mar del Plata local of the Teamsters' Union, a member of the CGT labour federation. Moyano was elected head of the local in 1972. He married three times: to Olga Mariani (with whom he had two sons), to Patricia Villares (four children), and to Liliana Zulet (a daughter).
Moyano reached an agreement with the right-wing National University Round Table (CNU) to jointly establish the Peronist Union Youth (JSP), in 1973. Moyano's entry into politics was made amid fast-growing tensions between the far left and far right fringes of Peronism, shortly after the end of its political banning. A staunch opponent of the Peronist left, he joined the JPRA, a rightist counterpart to the influential, left-wing Peronist Youth (JP); both the JSP and JPRA maintained close links with José López Rega (head of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance).
The keystone of Peronist support, the CGT, became one of the targets of the Dirty War following the March 1976 coup, however: union activity was banned and thousands of their members "disappeared." Restrictions were later eased, and the CGT was reconstituted under beer workers' leader Saúl Ubaldini in 1980. Moyano was named head of the CGT's Mar del Plata delegation, and was arrested during numerous demonstrations against the regime's economic policies. After these policies' collapse in 1981 and the loss of the Falklands (Malvinas) War the following year, general elections were called for 1983, ahead of which Moyano was named head of the Mar del Plata chapter of the late Juan Perón's Justicialist Party.
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