Ramón Puerta
Argentine politician and lawyer
Federico Ramón Puerta (Spanish pronunciation: [raˈmom ˈpweɾta] ; born 9 September 1951) is an Argentine Peronist politician who has served as a governor, national senator and deputy and briefly as president of Argentina in 2001.
Biography
Puerta was born in Apóstoles, Misiones Province. He attended the Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires and qualified as a civil engineer. However, he entered the family business of the cultivation of yerba maté, and became a successful businessman and millionaire.
Puerta was elected a national deputy for Misiones in 1987. In 1991, he was elected governor of Misiones Province, re-elected in 1995 and served until 1999. He followed the neo-liberal economic model of President Carlos Menem, including privatising the provincial bank of which his own grandfather had been a founder.
In 1999, he was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies and in 2001 he was elected to the Senate. In November of that year, he was elected provisory president of the Argentine Senate, constitutionally third in line to the nation's presidency.
Puerta served as the acting head of the executive branch of the country for two days on 21–22 December 2001.
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