Rafael Antonio Bielsa (born February 15, 1953 in Rosario, Argentina) is the foreign minister of Argentina since May 25, 2003, when President Néstor Kirchner took office. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Rosario viewed from a point above the Paraná River Rosario is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the second most populous in the country, with 1,121,441 inhabitants (2001 census [1]), a position it shares with Córdoba city (the largest being Buenos Aires). ... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the governmental foreign policy of a sovereign nation. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Néstor Carlos Kirchner (born 25 February 1950) is the current President of Argentina. ...

In 1977, During the Dirty War and suspected of being a member of the montoneros terrorist group, he was detained and taken to the "El Castillo" (also known as "El Fortín") illegal detention centre, where he spent 2 months of questioning an tortures. 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... A Dirty War (in Spanish: Guerra Sucia) was a program of state terrorism, including violent repression of rebels and dissidents conducted by government forces, characterized by the use of disappearances, torture, murder, and other covert practices, massive violations of human and civil rights, and very often including innocent bystanders among... The Movimiento Peronista Montonero was an Argentinian radical leftist guerrilla group, active during the 1970s. ...

After a period in Spain, Rafael returns to Argentina in 1980, and starts working in different positions of the military government, mainly in the Ministry of Justice. 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

After the comeback to democracy, Bielsa worked in a Secretary of the Ministry of Education in different functions, then in the 1990s at the Presidency and other specific international projects, and then as assessor at the Ministry of Justice, and other positions.

He is the brother of former Argentina national football team coach Marcelo Bielsa, both well-known Newell's Old Boys supporter. First International Uruguay 2 - 3 Argentina (Montevideo, Uruguay; 16 May 1901) Largest win Argentina 12 - 0 Ecuador (Montevideo, Uruguay; 22 January 1942) Worst defeat Czechoslovakia 6 - 1 Argentina (Helsingborg, Sweden; 15 June 1958) Uruguay 5 - 0 Argentina (Guayaquil, Ecuador; 16 December 1959) Argentina 0 - 5 Colombia (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5... Club Atlético Newells Old Boys is a popular football team from Rosario, Argentina, founded in 1903. ...

External links

• Rafael Bielsa's both sides (Spanish)
• Rafael Bielsa's CV (Spanish)