Jorge Vázquez

Jorge Alberto Vázquez Agodino (San Francisco, — Buenos Aires, ) was an Argentine diplomat and politician.

Early life He was born in San Francisco in the province of Córdoba. He studied a degree in Political and Social Sciences and Diplomacy at the Catholic University of Córdoba, graduating in 1965. There he was the president of the student federation. The following year, he pursued graduate studies at Georgetown University and in 1967 he entered the Argentine Foreign Service. He fulfilled functions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the Argentine embassies in the Netherlands and Chile.

Career Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs A Peronist militant, in 1973, President Héctor José Cámpora appointed him Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, being only 30 years old.

On June 21, he gave a speech that condemned U.S. foreign policy, identifying it as the main cause of the "deformation" of the inter-American system, and proposed revising the TIAR to adapt it to political multipolarism and ideological pluralism. He also criticised the bureaucracy of Latin American governments, which he described as "sleepy" and "complacent," and directed criticism at the OAS itself, which he described as "an instrument of North American policy [...] that until now only "It has caused us bitterness and frustration." Vázquez's tone was consistent with that used by President Cámpora in his criticism of the operation of the OAS.

He also demanded the reincorporation of Cuba, the virtual exclusion of the United States from the OAS, and the sovereignty rights of Panama over the canal zone under U.S. occupation.

1976 coup d'état After the coup d'état of the self-proclaimed National Reorganization Process, he was detained aboard the ship 33 Orientales, moored in the port of Buenos Aires. There he shared a cell with Carlos Menem. He was released in 1978.

Ambassadorship In 1975 he had joined the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights. After the return to democracy, President Raúl Alfonsín appointed him ambassador to the Dominican Republic, being then the youngest representative of the Argentine Foreign Ministry.

Vázquez had also expressed his opposition to the pro-American bias of Menem's first chancellor, Domingo Cavallo.

In 1997, he was appointed ambassador to Chile.

In 2002 Eduardo Duhalde appointed him ambassador to Peru. Upon taking office he apologised on behalf of the Argentine State for the case of the illegal sale of weapons to Ecuador.

Death He died in March 2007 at the age of 64, after suffering from health issues. as well as three sons: Facundo, Diógenes and Jorge.