Carlos Ruckauf

Who is Carlos Ruckauf?

Carlos Federico Ruckauf is a Peronist politician in Argentina, member of the Justicialist Party. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2002 to March 2003. He had earlier served as Vice-President of Argentina from 1995 to 1999, with Carlos Menem, and as his Interior Minister during his first administration. He was twice elected to the National Assembly following the restoration of democratic rule.

In his early career, he was appointed as a Labor court judge, followed by Minister of Labour in July 1974. He signed decree 261/75 on October 6, 1974, granting blanket amnesty to the Armed Forces for the "annihilation of subversives." It is now considered a step in what became the state's "Dirty War against political dissidents under the military dictatorship that overthrew Isabel Peron.