Raul Alberto Lastiri
Raúl Alberto Lastiri (Buenos Aires, September 11, 1915-ib., December 11, 1978) was an Argentine politician, who temporarily served as President of the Nation after the resignation in charge of Héctor José Cámpora and Vice President Vicente Solano Lima in 1973, during what has come to be called the third Peronism. He belonged to the Justicialista Party, and in turn was part of the Justicialista Liberation Front (Frejuli).
Biography
Born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Patricios, Raúl Alberto was the son of José María Lastiri and María Ferrari. After working as an employee of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF) oil company, then state-owned, Lastiri served as private secretary to the Director General of Broadcasting during the de facto government of General Edelmiro Farrell. That distribution was in charge of conducting the media system controlled by the national State, which allowed him to relate to many figures in the journalistic and artistic environment, apparently including Eva Duarte. Lastiri would later point out that he himself had authorized different radio stations to broadcast live the events of October 17, in which a massive demonstration demanded the release of Juan Domingo Perón, who had been detained by the military regime. In 1943 he married Amelia Concepción Martino Posterivo (1920-2009), with whom he had three children: Raúl Oscar, María Victoria and María Viviana Lastiri Martino. The marriage broke up in the early 1970s.
When Perón took office as president, Lastiri became private secretary of the National Postal and Telegraph Administrator and, since 1949, of the Minister of Communications of the Nation, Oscar Nicolini. He was a member of the board of directors of the organization's Mutual de Previsión Social between 1949 and 1951.
He was incorporated into the Foreign Service of the Nation and fulfilled diplomatic missions in the United States, Paraguay and Chile. In the latter country, between May and September 1955, with the rank of embassy secretary, he served as consul in Santiago de Chile.
When Perón was overthrown by the coup d'état known as the Liberating Revolution, he returned to the country and remained detained for a month in the Las Heras Avenue Penitentiary, in the city of Buenos Aires.
Then he was employed at the Legal Magazine "La Ley" owned by former Peronist foreign minister Jerónimo Remorino, and later he dedicated himself to the construction industry.
Lastiri kept in touch with groups that favored the return of Justicialismo to power. That is how he met José López Rega, from the ANAEL lodge, and his daughter Norma, who was 30 years his junior. Shortly after, López would join the environment of Perón and his wife María Estela Martínez de Perón, and from there he would assume the journalistic direction of the magazine Las Bases, where Lastiri would work in the collection of advertising and Norma in different editorial tasks. and policies, as stated in the payroll. There Lastiri became the boyfriend and then the husband of Norma Beatriz López Rega, which sealed his incorporation into the circle of close trust of the former president in exile. He became Isabel Perón's private secretary and later director of the magazine. On occasions when his mother-in-law traveled to Argentina, Lastiri took his place as Perón's assistant in Madrid, controlling, for example, telex communications with Peronist leaders.
When elections were called again in Argentina, López Rega managed to get Cámpora to include Lastiri in the list of candidates for National Deputy, and after the electoral triumph of FREJULI, he was appointed president of the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation, a position in the one that was until the resignation of Cámpora and Solano Lima.
Lastiri has also been accused of having ties to Licio Gelli's P2 Masonic lodge.
Interim Presidency
Rise to power
At that time, due to the influence of José López Rega -Minister of Social Welfare-, it was considered convenient to interfere with the constitutional device of presidential succession, for which the provisional vice president of the Senate, Díaz Bialet (second in line of succession), he was hastily put on the first plane to Algeria in charge of a non-existent mission. In this way, Lastiri (the third in the constitutional line for being president of the Chamber of Deputies) was able to provisionally assume the presidency and call new elections where he handed over the command to Juan Domingo Perón, elected for his third term.
Presidential administration
During the brief government of Lastiri —who had been elected deputy for the Justicialist Liberation Front despite belonging to the conservative wing of Justicialism— there was a turn to the right in the Peronist government.
Produced by the ERP attacking the Army Health Command, in the Federal Capital to steal weapons and medical supplies, Lastiri issued a decree that outlawed the ERP (since then his name could not be referred to and it was called "the organization declared illegal" ODI), the same day that Juan Domingo Perón won the elections of September 23, 1973.
Alberto Juan Vignes, replaced Juan Carlos Puig in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, the new Minister of the Interior was Benito Llambí, after the departure of Esteban Righi, considered to be related to Montoneros.
Despite this, foreign policy followed a Third World profile. In August 1973, Argentina granted Cuba a loan of 200 million dollars to purchase machinery and automobiles. José Ber Gelbard, also confirmed as Economy Minister, continued with his previous policy, nationalizing bank deposits and announcing a Triennial Plan of development.
On August 10, 1973, to celebrate Argentine Air Force Day, he traveled to the Marambio base in the Antarctic territory claimed by Argentina, along with his wife, Norma López Rega, Isabel Perón, members of his cabinet, heads of the armed forces and national legislators.
Lastiri, however, halted the amnesty and pacification measures for the political prisoners of the Lanusse regime that had taken Cámpora without popular support.
On September 25, 1973, the general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), José Ignacio Rucci, was assassinated. Although at first instance they denied responsibility, the involvement of Montoneros members in the event was finally discovered. That same month, the ERP had assaulted the Army Health Command in the Parque Patricios neighborhood of the city of Buenos Aires, resulting in one death, which was used to justify its outlawing and the closure of the newspaper The World.[citation required]
Announced the preparation of a Triennial Development Plan, from 1974 to 1976. It was pointed out that Lastiri had carried out tasks in the public service and in private activity; that he had adhered to Peronism almost from its origins and that he had been in charge of important missions in the party circles. “La Nación” (07/14/73:1) described it as “balanced” and “moderate”.[citation required]
 Raúl Alberto Lastiri | ||
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio | Owner | Period |
| Ministry of the Interior | Benito Llambí | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship | Alberto Juan Vignes | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Economy | José Ber Gelbard | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Education | Jorge Alberto Taiana | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Social Welfare | José López Rega | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of National Defence | Angel Federico Robledo | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Justice | Antonio J. Benítez | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
| Ministry of Labour | Ricardo Otero | 13 July 1973 - 12 October 1973 |
Post-presidency
In May 1974, he visited the Soviet Union sent by President Perón on an economic-political mission together with Italo Luder and José Ber Gelbard. After the 1976 military coup, Lastiri was detained by the military and died in prison two years later of lymphoma.
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