49 Notable alumni of
Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina is 1040th in the world, 36th in Latin America, and 4th in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 49 notable alumni from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mauricio Macri
- Occupations
- civil engineerpoliticianbusinesspersonsports executive
- Biography
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Mauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previously served as Chief of Government of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2015, and was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2005 to 2007. Ideologically, he identifies himself as a liberal conservative on the Argentine centre-right.
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Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
- In 1995 graduated with bachelor's degree in economics
- Occupations
- economistconsortteacher
- Biography
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Máxima is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander.
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María Eugenia Vidal
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- politician
- Biography
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María Eugenia Vidal is an Argentine politician who served as Governor of the Buenos Aires Province, being the first woman in the office, and the first non-Peronist since 1987. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), she previously served as Social Development minister of the City of Buenos Aires, and in 2011 she was elected deputy mayor of the city under Mauricio Macri. Since 2021, she has been a National Deputy for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.
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Guillermo Esteban Coppola
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Guillermo Coppola is an Argentine businessman. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He worked as the agent of over two hundred football players, and eventually became the agent of Diego Maradona. His relation with Maradona turned him into a famous television personality. He is the TV host of "Yo, Guillermo" in Canal 5 Noticias. He wrote an autobiography, "Guillote", published by Planeta, that became a best-seller in just 2 weeks.
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Rafael Grossi
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- diplomatUnited Nations official
- Biography
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Rafael Mariano Grossi is an Argentine diplomat. He has been serving as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since December 3, 2019. He was formerly the Argentine Ambassador to Austria, concurrent with Slovenia, Slovakia and International Organisations based in Vienna (2013–2019).
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Alfonso Prat Gay
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Alfonso Prat-Gay is an Argentine economist and politician. Following the election of Mauricio Macri to the presidency on 2015, he became Minister of Economy.
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Sandra Mihanovich
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- record producercomposersingeractor
- Biography
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Sandra Mihanovich is an Argentine singer, musician, and composer of rock, blues, and tango rhythms.
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Eduardo Costantini
- Occupations
- businesspersoneconomistphilanthropist
- Biography
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Eduardo Francisco Costantini is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). As of September 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$1.6 billion.
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Cielo Latini
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- writer
- Biography
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Cielo Latini is an Argentine writer. As a teenager, she wrote Abzurdah, an autobiography that detailed her problems with anorexia and bulimia. The book was a success and got a film adaption in 2015 starring María Eugenia Suárez.
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Ramón Puerta
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Federico Ramón Puerta is an Argentine Peronist politician who has served as a governor, national senator and deputy and briefly as President of Argentina in 2001.
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Mario Aurelio Poli
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- university teacherCatholic priestchurch historianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Mario Aurelio Poli is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 2013 to 2023. He was the Bishop of Santa Rosa from 2008 to 2013 and before that an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires from 2002 to 2008. Pope Francis, his predecessor in Buenos Aires, made him a cardinal in 2014.
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Leonardo Sandri
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Leonardo Sandri is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since November 2007 and vice dean of the College of Cardinals since January 2020. He was prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches from 2007 to 2022. He served in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1974 to 1991 in several overseas assignments, including as a permanent observer of the Holy See before the Organization of American States from 1989 to 1991, and in Rome as Substitute for General Affairs in the Secretariat of State from 1999 to 2007.
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María Julia Alsogaray
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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María Julia Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and engineer convicted in 2004 for financial crimes against the state.
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Víctor Manuel Fernández
- Occupations
- archbishopCatholic priestCatholic theologianuniversity teacherCatholic deacon
- Biography
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Víctor Manuel "Tucho" Fernández is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church and a theologian. He is currently the head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Guillermo Dietrich
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Guillermo Dietrich is an Argentine economist and politician. He served as the Minister of Transport of Argentina in the Mauricio Macri cabinet from 2015–2019.
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Alec Oxenford
- Years
- 1969-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- art collectorentrepreneur
- Biography
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Alejandro Carlos "Alec" Oxenford is an Argentine entrepreneur and diplomat. He co-founded OLX, and co-founded letgo, a mobile classified ad app in the United States, and is the Ambassador-Designate of Argentina to the United States.
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Atilio Boron
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Atilio Borón is an Argentine Marxist sociologist.
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Javier González Fraga
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Javier González Fraga is an Argentine economist and businessman. He served as President of the Central Bank of Argentina from 1989 to 1991, and was nominated as running-mate by Ricardo Alfonsín for his 2011 campaign for the Presidency.
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Davor Ivo Stier
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Davor Ivo Stier is a Croatian-Argentine politician and diplomat serving as member of the European Parliament since July 2024, having previously served from 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the Croatian Parliament in multiple terms, as well as the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from 2016 to 2017.
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Germán Garavano
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Germán Carlos Garavano is an Argentine lawyer and expert on judicial reform, and the former minister of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina between 2015 and 2019. He was Attorney General of the city of Buenos Aires between 2007 and 2014 and substitute Councillor of the Council of Magistracy of Argentina.
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Carlos Rodríguez Braun
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- economist
- Biography
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Carlos Rodríguez Braun is professor of History of Economic Thought at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, and is the author of more than twenty books.
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José Luis Machinea
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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José Luis Machinea is an Argentine economist and United Nations official. He was Minister of Economy and President of the Central Bank.
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Chrystian Colombo
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Chrystian Gabriel Colombo is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa, from 2000 to 2001. He served as cabinet chief during the December 2001 riots, and resigned alongside De la Rúa in their aftermath.
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Ricardo Buryaile
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ricardo Buryaile is an Argentine politician. He has served as a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies since 2019, and before that from 2013 to 2015, elected in his native Formosa Province. He served as Minister of Agroindustry from 2015 to 2017 in the cabinet of President Mauricio Macri.
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Carlos Escudé
- Enrolled in the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- writerpolitical scientistintellectual
- Biography
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Carlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal was an Argentine political scientist and author, who during the 1990s served as special advisor to foreign minister Guido di Tella. As such, he advised on Argentine foreign policy strategy vis-à-vis the Western powers particularly in the wake of the Falklands War.
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María Emilia Soria
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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María Emilia Soria is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as intendenta (mayor) of General Roca, Río Negro. She belongs to the Justicialist Party.
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Jorge Sapag
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Augusto Sapag is an Argentine politician and lawyer, a member of the Neuquino People's Movement (MPN) and governor of Neuquén Province in Argentina since 2007.
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Arturo Mor Roig
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- politician
- Biography
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Arturo Mor Roig was an Argentine politician.
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Débora Giorgi
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Débora Adriana Giorgi is an Argentine economist, formerly the nation's Minister of Industry.
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Javier González-Olaechea
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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Javier Juan Vicente Ramón González Olaechea Franco is a Peruvian political scientist and politician who served as minister of Foreign Relations in the presidency of Dina Boluarte from 2023 to 2024.
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María José Lubertino
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- professorpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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María José Lubertino is an Argentine lawyer and politician. She has worked in different social movements, as a feminist in the women's movement and human rights organizations, among others. She began her political career in the Radical Civic Union (UCR) from 1982 until the Alliance appointed Lopez Murphy as minister, and from 2003 to the present in Espacio Abierto, that joined the Front for Victory in the 2009 election. Since November 2013, she has been a member of the National Board of the Broad Front.
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Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishoplawyer
- Biography
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Jorge Ignacio García Cuerva is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Buenos Aires since 2023.
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Carlos Azpiroz Costa
- Occupations
- Catholic deaconCatholic priestfriarCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Carlos Alfonso Azpiroz Costa, O.P. is an Argentinian Catholic friar of the Order of Preachers who has served as the Archbishop of Bahia Blanca since 2015. He was previously his religious order's superior general from 2001 to 2010.
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Elisabetta Piqué
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- war correspondentbiographerwriterforeign correspondentjournalist
- Biography
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Elisabetta Piqué is an Italian-born Argentine journalist and Vatican correspondent for the newspaper La Nación. She wrote the biography Pope Francis: Life and Revolution. The film Francis: Pray for Me is based on her book, and the character played by the actress Silvia Abascal is based on Piqué. She is married to America correspondent Gerard O'Connell.
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Luis María Serra
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- composerconductormusicianpianistchoir director
- Biography
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Luis María Serra was an Argentine musician and composer.
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María Fernanda Silva
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- diplomat
- Biography
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María Fernanda Silva is an Argentine career diplomat, and the former ambassador of Argentina to the Holy See. She is the first woman to hold the ambassadorship to the Holy See, as well as the first Afro-Argentine to lead an Argentine diplomatic mission.
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Blanca Osuna
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- politician
- Biography
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Blanca Inés Osuna is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She has been a National Deputy for Entre Ríos Province since 2019, having held the position before from 2001 to 2007. She was also a National Senator representing the same province from 2007 to 2011, and served as intendente (mayor) of Paraná from 2011 to 2015.
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Cristina Mucci
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- writerlawyerjournalisttelevision presenter
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Cristina Mucci is an Argentine writer and journalist. Since 1987 she has been directing and producing the television program Los siete locos, dedicated to the dissemination of books and culture. She is the author of books about Argentine writers, such as Leopoldo Lugones and three emblematic women of Argentine literature from the 1950s–60s: Marta Lynch, Silvina Bullrich, and Beatriz Guido.
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Marcelo Guinle
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Marcelo Alejandro Horacio Guinle was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He served as a Senator for Chubut Province and was the president of the Supreme Court of Chubut until his death.
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Marcelo Raúl Martorell
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- Catholic priestphilosopherCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Marcelo Raúl Martorell was an Argentine Roman Catholic prelate. He was bishop of Puerto Iguazú from 2006 to 2020. He died in Salta, Salta Province on 16 June 2024, at the age of 79.
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Guillermo José Garlatti
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Guillermo José Garlatti is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church was the archbishop of Bahía Blanca from 2004 to 2017. He has been a bishop since 1994.
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Cayetano Antonio Licciardo
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Cayetano Antonio Licciardo was an Argentine politician and the Minister of Economy of Argentina from 1971 to October 13, 1972, and the Minister of Education December 22, 1981 to December 1983.
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Martín Berhongaray
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Martín Antonio Berhongaray, is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2019. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Berhongaray previously served as a member of La Pampa's provincial legislature, and as president of the UCR Committee of Santa Rosa.
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Viviana Zocco
- Occupations
- business executive
- Biography
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Viviana Zocco is an Argentine businesswoman, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is founder and CEO of Grupo VI-DA and VI-DATEC, companies dedicated to technological development applied to culture, education and entertainment, with offices in Argentina, Mexico and the United States. Some of the most well-known companies belonging to Group VI-DA are: TICMAS, BajaLibros, InterCultural Division, GrandesLibros, Leamos, the entertainment platform TKM, 2 among others. Zocco is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in Latin America. In 2016 she became Chapter Leader in Argentina of the international women's organization UPWARD Women
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Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Ariel Edgardo Torrado Mosconi is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Nueve de Julio since December 2015, after serving six months as coadjutor there. He was an auxiliary bishop of Santiago del Estero from 2008 to 2015.
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Vanesa Laura Massetani
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- politician
- Biography
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Vanesa Laura Massetani is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Santa Fe Province. A member of the Renewal Front, she was elected in 2015 and re-elected in 2019 as part of the Frente de Todos.
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Martin Maquieyra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martín Maquieyra is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in La Pampa since 2016. He is a member of Republican Proposal (PRO), and currently sits in the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary bloc.
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Ángel José Macín
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Ángel José Macín is an Argentine Roman Catholic bishop.
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Rodrigo López Molina
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- politiciannotarylawyer
- Biography
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Rodrigo Manuel “Roy” López Molina, is an argentine politician, attorney and public notary of the Republican Proposal Party who has been City councilor of the Rosario, Santa Fe since 2017. Before being elected City councilor, he was Provincial Deputy of Province of Santa Fe from 2015 to 2017 and City councilor of Rosario from 2011 to 2015.
