- Hugo Cóccaro
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Hugo Cóccaro Governor of Tierra del Fuego In office
October 25, 2005 – December 10, 2007Preceded by Jorge Colazo Succeeded by Fabiana Rios Personal details Born 1954
Saladillo, Buenos Aires ProvincePolitical party Justicialist Party Profession sawmill proprietor Hugo Omar Cóccaro (born in 1954) is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former governor of Tierra del Fuego Province (formally Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands).
Born in Saladillo, Buenos Aires Province, Cóccaro relocated to Tierra del Fuego at age 20 with his brother, with whom he started a construction firm.[1] He later purchased the San Justo Estancia, a lenga beech sawmill near Río Grande.[2] He had four daughters, and his marriage ended in separation.[1][3]
Cóccaro entered politics in 2003, when he was elected vice-governor under Governor Jorge Colazo of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He fell out with Colazo, however, and there were public rows between them. He became acting governor of Tierra del Fuego on October 25, 2005, when Colazo was suspended, and was confirmed in the post on December 2.
His tenure was marked for its failed support for RENASA, a provincial petroleum concern, and a subsequent impeachment attempt.[4] Cóccaro ran for reelection in 2007, and won the first round; but he was defeated in the runoff by Fabiana Ríos, the first woman to be elected governor in the history of Argentina.
Preceded by
Jorge ColazoGovernor of Tierra del Fuego
2005–2007Succeeded by
Fabiana RiosCurrent Governors of Argentine Provinces and Chief of Government of Buenos Aires City BA City: Mauricio Macri (PRO)
BA Province: Daniel Scioli (PJ)
Catamarca: E. Brizuela del Moral (UCR)
Chaco: Jorge Capitanich (PJ)
Chubut: Mario Das Neves (PJ)
Córdoba: Juan Schiaretti (PJ)Corrientes: Ricardo Colombi (UCR)
Entre Ríos: Sergio Urribarri (PJ)
Formosa: Gildo Insfrán (PJ)
Jujuy: Walter Barrionuevo (PJ)
La Pampa: Oscar Mario Jorge (PJ)
La Rioja: Luis Beder Herrera (PJ)Mendoza: Celso Jaque (PJ)
Misiones: Maurice Closs (PJ)
Neuquén: Jorge Sapag (MPN)
Río Negro: Miguel Saiz (UCR)
Salta: Juan Manuel Urtubey (PJ)
San Juan: José Luis Gioja (PJ)San Luis: Alberto Rodríguez Saá (PJ)
Santa Cruz: Daniel Peralta (PJ)
Santa Fe: Hermes Binner (PS)
Sgo del Estero: Gerardo Zamora (UCR)
Tierra del Fuego: Fabiana Ríos (ARI)
Tucumán: José Alperovich (PJ)External links
- (Spanish) Tierra de Fuego Province
References
Categories:- 1954 births
- Living people
- People from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Argentine businesspeople
- Governors of Tierra del Fuego Province
- Justicialist Party politicians
- Argentine politician stubs
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