Octavio Amadeo, Mario

He received a philosophical education and for some time worked as a scientist in this field. He was a supporter of anti-liberalism and conservative Catholicism. He was president of Ateneo de la República, a semi-secret club whose members were suspected of sympathizing with fascism. In 1931, he founded the "Catholic Action" in Argentina, advocated anti-democratic traditionalism, corporatism and economic nationalism, aimed at limiting the influence of foreign capital.

During World War II, he became associated with representatives of Argentinean politics who supported the Third Reich. He was close to Juan Carlos Goyeneche, who constantly visited Nazi Germany. As a result, the United States in the so-called "Blue Book on Argentina" ranked him as "trusted employees from SD." His position subsequently emerged as the representative of the United Nations, when he sharply criticized Israel, who had abducted Adolf Eichmann .

At the same time, he was sympathetic to peronism and even after the overthrow of the latter in September 1955, he even saved his life when he slipped and could drown while fleeing to Paraguay. At the same time, he criticized Peron for striving to change the social hierarchy that existed before him.

In September-November 1955, after the overthrow of Juan Peron, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. Then he created his own party - the Democratic Christian Union, which, however, did not receive electoral support.

He was a founding member of the Argentine branch of the international traditionalist organization Tradición, Familia y Propiedad, established in Brazil.

In 1966-1969 he was an ambassador to Brazil ^[1] .

Then followed his long career at the UN, where he was the representative of Argentina (1958-1962), first deputy chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. In May 1959, he chaired the Security Council. It is personally responsible for the introduction of Law 22068 of the times of the Dirty War , according to which anyone missing after 90 days is declared dead. He was a member of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, established by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which investigated disappearances. As a member of this group in 1979, he recognized the poverty of Argentine prisons, but claimed that political disappearances had already ended, and even claimed that such disappearances were a common element of life in New York.

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• Genealogía Familiar. Mario octavio amadeo french