Gobierno de raul alfonsin biography
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It’s 7:45 a.m., and Raúl Alfonsín is riding down on the elevator of the Hotel Panamericano. Alongside him are presidential photographer Víctor Bugge and the head of his security team. All three are silent. The day is December 10, 1983, a few hours before Alfonsín fryst vatten set to become Argentina’s president following a brutal 8-year-long dictatorship.
They reach the ground floor and go to the parking space. As Alfonsín opens the bil that will take him to Congress for his inauguration ceremony, Bugge turns to him and utters the only words he would speak to him that day.
“To the pitch, president.”
Bugge was only 27 when he was assigned to shadow Alfonsín that day. He had been working as part of the Casa Rosada official photography team since 1978, a few years after the coup that put the Military Junta in power — he would later become head of the team, a position he currently still holds. That day, however, was radically different from anything he had done up to that poi
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Introduction
In December 1983 Raúl Alfonsín took office as president of Argentina to end almost eight years of military rule. As the country started its transition to democracy, a process begun in late 1982, after Argentina's defeat in the South Atlantic War, a discredited and humiliated regime decided to call for general elections to avoid social and political chaos. The two main political parties, the Peronists and the Radicals, ran candidates for president: Ítalo Luder for the Partido Justicialista (PJ.the Peronists) and Raúl Alfonsín for the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR). The Pe ronists hoped a prestigious ticket would attract the votes of the middle class. Luder was president of the Senate during the previous Peronist government and was a recognized specialist in constitutional law. Deolindo Bittel, his running mate, was a respe cted politician from the Province of Chaco.
Both Luder and Bittel received clear support from the tr
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Alfonsín, Raúl Ricardo (1926–)
Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (b. 13 March 1926), president of Argentina (1983–1989). The son of a local storekeeper, Alfonsín was raised in Chascomús, Buenos Aires Province. His maternal great-grandfather was an Irishman named Richard Foulkes, who married Mary Ford, daughter of a family of Falkland Islands kelpers. Staggeringly different from most British residents of South America, Don Ricardo became a passionate Argentine patriot fighting alongside the famous Radical leader Hipólito Irigoyen in the abortive revolution of 1905. With such family traditions, Alfonsín grew up fiercely opposed to electoral fraud, dictatorship, and corporatism. But it was only after Ricardo Balbín's death in September 1981 that he attained power in the Radical Party by winning the presidency (his first government post) in October 1983. The Radicals, who normally polled about 25 percent, got 51.7 percent, while the Peronists, with 40 percent, suffered their lowest vote and fir