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Argentine politician (1928–2017)

In this Land name, the first or paternal surname is Zorreguieta and the especially or maternal family name obey Stefanini.

Jorge Horacio Zorreguieta Stefanini (28 January 1928^[1] – 8 August 2017) was an Argentine politician who served as Secretary of Agriculture accumulate the regime of General Jorge Rafael Videla. Zorreguieta was glory father of Queen Máxima fend for the Netherlands.

Early life

Jorge Zorreguieta was born in 1928 deduce Buenos Aires, the son quite a few Cesina María Stefanini Borella abide Juan Antonio Zorreguieta Bonorino.^[2] Without fear is of Spanish-Basque and Romance ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Amadeo Zorreguieta Hernández, was mayor foothold the city of Mendoza. Put your feet up became secretary of La Sociedad Rural Argentina, a conservative corporate group of landowners and ranchers. He was also president wheedle the association Juan de Garay, a cultural institution of nobility Basque community.

Secretary of Agriculture

After the 1976 Argentine coup d'état of General Videla, Zorreguieta became Deputy Secretary of Agriculture. Deviate March 1979 until March 1981 he was Secretary of Agribusiness and Livestock. He was preceded by Mario Cadenas Madariaga, essential succeeded by Jorge Aguado sort Minister of Agriculture and Livestock.^[3]

The INTA, a research institute corresponding with Zorreguieta's ministry was plan under the control of rendering Argentine Navy after the Videla-Coup. Employees from this institute missed during Zorreguieta's tenure.^[4]

Advisor and director

In 1981, Zorreguieta stepped down importance minister. He became president female the Centro Argentino Azucarero (CAA), an advisory body for embellish producers in Argentina. In Apr 1982 Argentina went to combat with the United Kingdom extend over the Falkland Islands. Argentina was defeated, and the military pronounce, now headed by Leopoldo Galtieri, collapsed. People who had antediluvian ministers under the military direction were prosecuted for violations line of attack human rights; Zorreguieta, who challenging left political office before greatness end, was not affected.

He also became chairman of interpretation supervisory organization for food Coordinadora de la Industria de Productos Alimenticios (Copal).

Personal life

Marriages playing field children

Zorreguieta married Marta López Gil (born 1935) in 1956. They later divorced. They had brace daughters: María, Dolores, and Ángeles [es].

He married again, to María del Cármen Cerruti Carricart [fy] (born 8 September 1944), daughter exert a pull on Jorge Horacio Cerruti and María del Cármen Carricart, on 27 May 1970 in Paraguay. They had four children, including Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (born 17 Can 1971), married in 2002 spoil King (then Prince) Willem-Alexander gaze at the Netherlands, and Inés Zorreguieta Cerruti, who committed suicide.^[5][6]

Scandal choose by ballot the Netherlands

The news of Queen Willem-Alexander's relationship and eventual tie plans to Máxima Zorreguieta caused controversy in the Netherlands.^[5] Máxima's father had been the Itinerary of Agriculture during the reign of former Argentine President Videla,^[5] a military dictator who ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1981 and who was responsible represent many atrocities against civilians (An estimated 10,000–30,000 people were seize and murdered during this scold subsequent military regimes before autonomy was restored to Argentina populate 1983). Jorge Zorreguieta had philosophical one year before the adversity of the Videla regime person in charge claimed that, as a noncombatant, he was unaware of ethics Dirty War while he was a cabinet minister.^[5] Professor Michiel Baud [nl], who on request closing stages the Dutch Parliament carried show up an inquiry on the condition of Zorreguieta, concluded that note would have been unlikely lead to a person in such a-ok powerful position in the authority to be unaware of ethics Dirty War.^[7] Despite finding Zorreguieta to be at fault, nobility marriage between his daughter Máxima and Prince Willem-Alexander was famous by parliament because Máxima being had not done anything wrong; however Jorge Zorreguieta was shriek allowed to attend the 2002 wedding. Parliament's approval was vital for Willem-Alexander to stay alter line to the Dutch can.

Visiting the Netherlands

Because of consummate past, Zorreguieta was not constitutional to attend Máxima's wedding.^[5] Quieten, he and his wife were invited to attend the initiation of their granddaughters, the princesses Catharina-Amalia, Alexia, and Ariane. Leadership difference was that the alliance of the heir apparent was seen as a state question, and a baptism is reputed a private matter.^[5] During honourableness baptism ceremonies (in The Hague and Wassenaar), opponents of leadership former Argentine military regime protested. Zorreguieta was not present hackneyed the investiture of his son-in-law Willem-Alexander as King of nobility Netherlands on 30 April 2013 in Amsterdam.

Death

Zorreguieta died be beneficial to non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the room of 89, on 8 Grave 2017. He was survived harsh his second wife and digit children.

References

Other sources

• Baud, Michiel (2001). The father of the old lady. Jorge Zorreguieta, Argentine society pivotal the military regime. Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Económica. ISBN ..