Jorge Taiana | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of Argentina | |
In office 1 December 2005 – 18 June 2010 |
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President |
Néstor Kirchner Cristina Fernández de Kirchner |
Preceded by | Rafael Bielsa |
Succeeded by | Héctor Timerman |
Personal details | |
Born |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
May 31, 1950
Political party | Justicialist Party/Front for Victory |
Spouse(s) | Bernarda Llorente |
Alma mater | Latin American Social Science Institute |
Jorge Enrique Taiana (born May 31, 1950) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, formerly Foreign Minister (canciller) in the administrations of President Néstor Kirchner and his successor, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. His father was Jorge Alberto Taiana, colleague and physician of former President Juan Perón.
Jorge Taiana was born in Buenos Aires as the fourth and second youngest child of Matilde Puebla and Jorge Alberto Taiana. His father was a prominent Argentine surgeon who later served in a number of social policy posts for President Juan Perón, as well as one of his personal physicians. He attended the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, studied sociology, and was awarded a Master's Degree in Social Sciences at the Latin American Social Science Institute (FLACSO). He was later a researcher at the National University of Quilmes and worked in the field of human rights. Taiana is married to Telefe producer Bernarda Llorente; he has three children, two by a previous marriage.
Taiana was a militant Peronist in the early 1970s and in 1973 re-launched Descamisado, a populist news weekly thereafter associated with the Montoneros guerilla movement. He worked alongside his father in the Ministry of Education as Head of Cabinet following the return of Peronism to power in 1973, and despite being threatened by the Triple A, he decided to remain in the country. He was imprisoned in 1975 and spent seven years in jail without trial, mostly in a military prison in Rawson.