(Rosa) Graciela Castagnola de Fernández Meijide (b. Avellaneda, 1931-02-27) is an Argentine teacher, human rights activist and politician. Avellaneda is a Port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. She came to prominence investigating the forced disappearances of the Dirty War and later served as a deputy, senator and minister for the FrePaSo party. A forced disappearance occurs when an organization forces a person to vanish from Public view either by Murder or by simple Sequestration. This article refers to the Argentine Dirty War for the British film of the same name see Dirty War (film. The Front for a Country in Solidarity ( Spanish: Frente por un País Solidario or FrePaSo) was a political party in Argentina.
Graciela Castagnola was born in Avellaneda and met her husband, Enrique Fernández Meijide, at a young age. Avellaneda is a Port city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was They had a daughter and two sons, and she worked as a French teacher. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people In 1976, her 16-year-old son, Pablo, was taken by the authorities in a night-time raid on the family apartment, along with his girlfriend in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity - the girl's former boyfriend was a student activist also named Pablo. They were not seen again by their families.
Fernández Meijide campaigned for the rights of the families of the disappeared and protested with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo is an association of Argentine Mothers whose children " disappeared quot during She lived in exile in Montreal for a period and joined the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec At the return of democracy in 1983, she was appointed to head the depositions department of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONDEP). In Law, a deposition is witness testimony given under oath and recorded for use in court at a later date The National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish es Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas, CONADEP was an Argentine organization
Although she was approached by several parties after her high-profile work, it was not until the creation of the centre-left Great Front and later FrePaSo (Front for a Country in Solidarity) that Fernández Meijide started a political career, having seen the passing into law of the controversial 'Pardon Laws' (the Ley de Obediencia Debida and the Ley de Punto Final) that pardoned those responsible for human rights abuses during the Proceso. Ley de Obediencia Debida (Spanish Law of Due Obedience) was a law passed by the National Congress of Argentina after the end of the military Ley de Punto Final (Spanish roughly translated Full Stop Law) was a law passed by the National Congress of Argentina after the end of the military The National Reorganization Process (in Spanish, Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, often simply El Proceso) was the name used by its leaders She stood as a candidate for the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1991 without success. The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentina 's parliament
In 1993 Fernández Meijide, by now 62 years old, was elected a deputy for Buenos Aires city. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern She was elected to the Argentine Senate in 1995 for the city. The Argentine Senate is the upper house of parliament in Argentina. During this time the newly-formed FrePaSo's popularity and her own grew. In 1997, she resigned her seat in the Senate and was elected a deputy once again, but now for Buenos Aires Province, in a resounding victory over Justicialist Chiche Duhalde, greatly increasing her profile [1]. The Justicialist Party ( Spanish: Partido Justicialista, PJ) is a Peronist political party in Argentina, and the largest component Hilda Beatriz 'Chiche' González de Duhalde (b 14 October 1946) is a politician in Argentina. FrePaSo joined with the Radical Civic Union (UCR) and several provincial parties to create the Alianza in opposition to President Carlos Menem, and she led the Alianza majority in the lower house of the Argentine Congress. The Radical Civic Union (in Spanish Unión Cívica Radical, UCR) is a Political party in Argentina. The President of Argentina (full title President of the Argentine Nation, Spanish: Presidente de la Nación Argentina) is the Head of state Carlos Saúl Menem Akil (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 The Congress of the Argentine Nation (Congreso de la Nación Argentina is the legislative branch of the government of Argentina.
Ahead of the 1999 Presidential election, Fernández Meijide contested the internal election to be the candidate for the Alianza against Radical Fernando de la Rúa, which she lost despite having been the front-runner in many polls [2]. Argentina held presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday 24 October 1999. Fernando de la Rúa (born September 15 1937) is an Argentine politician She declined to be de la Rúa's running mate and announced her candidature to be Governor of Buenos Aires Province. Buenos Aires Province (ˈbwenos ˈaiɾes Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires is the most populated province of Argentina. However she was not successful in the gubernatorial election.
De la Rúa, on the other hand, was elected President, and he appointed Fernández Meijide to his cabinet as minister of social development and environment [3]. She was unable to put many of her social plans into action, however, due to lack of funds, and her popularity waned as the public's impatience grew. In 2001, in a reshuffle brought on by economic and social crisis, the President made her chief of cabinet; however she resigned after a few days in protest at the government's economic policies. De la Rúa's government and the Alianza subsequently collapsed in 2001 and both the UCR and FrePaSo backed the presidency of Eduardo Duhalde to remedy the country's economic crisis [4]. Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (born 5 October 1941 is a former president of Argentina.
References
- Graciela Fernez Meijide: una mujer con temple de acero profile and interview, PDF format (Spanish)
- Buenos Aires Mayor to Lead Opposition in Argentina, New York Times, 1998-11-30
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