Roca, Julio Argentino

Julio Argentino Roca ( Spanish: Julio Argentino Roca ; July 17, 1843 , San Miguel de Tucuman - October 19, 1914 , Buenos Aires ) - Argentine politician, president of Argentina .

Julio Argentino Roca
Julio Argentino Roca
president of argentina October 12, 1898 - October 12, 1904
Predecessor	Jose Evaristo de Uriburu
Successor	Manuel Pedro Quintana
president of argentina October 12, 1880 - October 12, 1886
Predecessor	Nicholas Avellaneda
Successor	Miguel Juarez Selman
Minister of War of Argentina January 1878 - October 9, 1879
The president	Nicholas Avellaneda
Predecessor	Adolfo Alcina
Successor	Carlos Pellegrini
Birth	July 17, 1843 ( 1843-07-17 )
Death	October 19, 1914 ( 1914-10-19 ) (71 years old)
Burial place	Recoleta cemetery
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In 1879 he was appointed Minister of War; led an expedition to the Rio Negro against the Indians. Although the expedition was unsuccessful, nevertheless, Rock's influence intensified, and in 1880 the federalists nominated him as presidential candidate; the provinces of Buenos Aires and Corrientes , opposed to his election, were pacified, and in the same year he was elected president by a huge majority. Roca remained president until 1886 , following a conciliatory policy.

Subsequently, he was president of the Senate, and in 1893 , at the head of government forces, crushed a flared uprising .

Since 1898, he again took the presidency. During his second term, he made a trip to the south of the country, visited Ushuaia , continuing his journey along the Beagle Channel and the Magellan Strait , met with Chilean President Federico Errasurisem in Punta Arenas , which served to expedite the resolution of the dispute about Pune de Atacama .

During his presidency in Santiago de Chile , May Covenants were signed, which halted the arms race between Argentina and Chile, and established a procedure for resolving disputes between the two countries through international arbitration. At the end of 1902, Argentina supported Venezuela in connection with the blockade of Venezuela Great Britain, Germany and Italy. Argentine Foreign Minister Luis Maria Drago published a document called the Drago Doctrine declaring the inadmissibility of military intervention in the event of non-payment of public debt, in which many countries of Latin America supported Argentina.

On January 2, 1904, President Julio Roca approved the purchase by Argentina of a weather station in the South Orkney Islands , founded by William Bruce , that gave rise to the oldest continuously operating Antarctic base in Orcadas and making Argentina the first country to gain a permanent base in Antarctica.