Antonio Francisco Cafiero (born 12 September 1922 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. ^[1] September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... BUE redirects here. ... The Justicialist Party (Spanish: Partido Justicialista, PJ) is a Peronist political party in Argentina, and the largest component of the Peronist movement. ...

Cafiero studied at the University of Buenos Aires and became an accountant in 1944, and a Doctor in Economic Sciences in 1948. He was involved in political activity since he entered the university. As a militant Peronist, since 1962 he held offices in the National Justicialist Movement, in different institutions within the Justicialist Party at the national level and in Buenos Aires Province. The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is the largest university in Argentina, founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, or Accountancy Practitioner, is an accountancy and financial experts legally certified in different jurisdictions to originally worked only in public practices, selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses, but today in addition many work within private corporations, financial industry and government... Peronism (Spanish: Peronismo), or Justicialism (Spanish: Justicialismo), is an Argentine political ideology based on the ideas and programs associated with former president Juan Perón. ... The Buenos Aires province (IPA: , Spanish: Provincia de Buenos Aires) is the wealthiest and most populated province of Argentina. ...

Cafiero served several presidential administrations. He was the Minister of Foreign Trade under Juan Perón (1952–1954). During Perón's last term, he was the Secretary of Commerce (1974). After Perón's death and his replacement by his wife, Vice-President Isabel Perón, Cafiero was appointed Federal Interventor of Mendoza Province (1974–1975). He served also as Ambassador to the European Economic Community and Belgium (1975), Minister of Economy (1975–1976) and Ambassador to the Holy See (1976). Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina and serving from 1946 to 1955 and from 1973 to 1974. ... President Perón giving a speech María Estela Martínez de Perón (born on February 4, 1931, in La Rioja, Argentina) better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón would become the third wife of Argentine President Juan Perón and serve as President of Argentina in... Mendoza is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the western central part of the country in the Cuyo region. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

With regards to elected posts, he was a National Deputy (1985–1987), Governor of Buenos Aires Province (1987–1991), and a Senator (1993–2001). While governor of Buenos Aires, he ran in the primary election to choose a Justicialist Party candidate for the 1989 presidential election, but he lost to Carlos Menem (who subsequently won the main election). In 1994 he was part of the Convention that modified the Argentine Constitution and allowed for Menem's reelection. The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the National Congress, Argentinas parliament. ... The Argentine Senate is the upper house of parliament in Argentina. ... A primary election is an election in which voters in a jurisdiction select candidates for a subsequent election (nominating primary). ... Carlos Saúl Menem (born July 2, 1930) was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist). ... The 1994 reform to the Argentine Constitution was approved on 22 August, as a result of the Olivos Pact between by that time president of Argentina Carlos Saúl Menem, and the former president and leader of the opposition Raúl Alfonsín. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Constitution of Argentina The Constitution of Argentina is one of the primary sources of law in Argentina. ...

In 2006 Cafiero was formally accused, along with Isabel Perón and several of her former ministers, of involvement in the forced disappearance of a minor in 1976. In October 1975, the president and her cabinet had signed decrees ordering "military and security operations that may be needed to annihilate the works of subversive elements throughout the territory of the country" (see Dirty War for historical context). ^[2] Cafiero, during the Trial of the Juntas in 1985, had stated that the government believed that common police tactics were not enough to combat the guerrillas, and that he learned of the human rights violations committed then only after the coup d'état that ousted Isabel Perón on 24 March 1976. ^[3] Disappear redirects here. ... This article especially refers to the Argentine dirty war; however, the term has been used in other contexts, for example in Turkey; see also lead years Dirty War (in Spanish: ) refers to a program of a state-sponsored illegal repression on domestic citizens in response to strikes, social unrest, violence... The Juicio a las Juntas (Spanish, Trial of the Juntas) was the judicial trial of the members of the de facto military government that ruled Argentina during the dictatorship of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, which lasted from 1976 to 1983. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

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