Alejandro Iaccarino

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|caption=Iaccarino in 1994

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|birth_place=La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Alejandro Romulo Iaccarino (born August 7, 1946) is an Argentine businessman. In 1976 Iaccarino, a successful dairy entrepreneur, was kidnapped with several relatives and detained by armed officials; he was released in 1978. Iaccarino founded several economic associations.

Early life

Iaccarino was born in La Plata on August 7, 1946, the son of Dora Emma Venturino and Rodolfo Genaro Valentin Iaccarino. He has two brothers, Carlos and Rodolfo, and was married to Mercedes Rosario Ruiz.

{{anchor|Business career}}Career

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In 1969, Iaccarino joined the Buenos Aires stock exchange as its youngest member.{{cite web|url=http://www.revistaanfibia.com/cronica/hermanos-iaccarino-los-patrones-sin-privilegios/pagina-2 |title=Hermanos Iaccarino: Los patrones sin privilegios |date=15 May 2013 |work=Revista Anfibia |author=Mannarino, Juan Manuel |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504052705/http://www.revistaanfibia.com/cronica/hermanos-iaccarino-los-patrones-sin-privilegios/pagina-2 |archivedate=4 May 2014 }} He founded Southern Argentina Construction, Llumbras and Ciatra. Iaccarino later purchased two livestock and forest holdings comprising {{convert|25000|ha|sqmi}} in Santiago del Estero Province.{{cite web|url=http://memoria.telam.com.ar/noticia/caso-iaccarino---tercera-nota_n1537|title=El único móvil del secuestro de los hermanos Iaccarino fue económico|work=Telam|access-date=2014-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504035039/http://memoria.telam.com.ar/noticia/caso-iaccarino---tercera-nota_n1537|archive-date=2014-05-04|url-status=dead}} In 1974, he and his brother Carlos traveled to the United States to research the use of wood by-products.{{cite web|url=http://sur.infonews.com/notas/los-otros-casos-papel-prensa-las-apropiaciones-economicas|title=Los otros casos Papel Prensa: las apropiaciones económicas|author=Russo, Miguel|work=Miradas al Sur|access-date=2014-05-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504040329/http://sur.infonews.com/notas/los-otros-casos-papel-prensa-las-apropiaciones-economicas|archive-date=2014-05-04|url-status=dead}} The following year, Iaccarino confronted Santiago del Estero governor Carlos Juarez about governmental setting of milk prices (Iaccarino had founded the NOA dairy).{{cite web|url=http://www.infojusnoticias.gov.ar/provinciales/el-funcionario-menemista-que-planeo-el-secuestro-de-los-iaccarino-337.html|title=El funcionario menemista que planeó el secuestro de los Iaccarino|date= 27 July 2013|work=Infojus Noticias|author=Barrera, Laureano}}

{{anchor|Victim of the military dictatorship}}Imprisonment by military dictatorship

In 1976 Iaccarino, his brothers and his parents were kidnapped by the military dictatorship so their assets could be seized.{{cite web|url=http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/132670/verdict-expected-today-in-trial-of-dictatorship-era-assetstripping|title=Verdict expected today in trial of dictatorship era asset-stripping|date=June 13, 2013|work=Buenos Aires Herald|author=Bertoia, Luciana}} He and his brother, Carlos, were imprisoned until September 4, 1978.{{cite web|url= http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/187383/supreme-court-nixes-substitute-justices|title=Supreme Court nixes substitute justices|date= April 22, 2015|work= Buenos Aires Herald|author= Bertoia, Luciana}}{{cite web|url= http://memoria.telam.com.ar/noticia/-o-venden-o-van-al-rio---les-dijeron-a-los-iaccarino_n2596|title= O venden o van al río|date= May 15, 2013|work= Télam|access-date= July 21, 2015|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190329154334/http://memoria.telam.com.ar/noticia/-o-venden-o-van-al-rio---les-dijeron-a-los-iaccarino_n2596|archive-date= March 29, 2019|url-status= dead}}

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Activist and advisor

In 1982 Iaccarino was elected president of the Economic Confederation of Argentina,{{cite web|url= http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-126296-2009-06-08.html|title= Nos quedamos sin nada, destruyeron nuestro patrimonio|date=8 June 2009|work=Página 12|author=Veiga, Gustavo}} founding economic associations throughout the country with a group of businesspeople and professionals. This gave a voice to those who were kidnapped, tortured and economically harmed by the dictatorship.{{cite web|url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/subnotas/186511-57575-2012-01-30.html|title=El despojo de empresarios|date=30 January 2012|work=Página 12|author=Veiga, Gustavo}}

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For his presidency of the ECA and the creation of PEEG, Iaccarino received an Apostolic Blessing from Pope John Paul II on June 7, 1985. At a meeting of international representatives in the United States, he was appointed chairman of the Investigation Committee of the International Monetary Fund and the Trilateral Commission in Latin America.{{cite web|url=http://ulpianoelromano.blogia.com/2014/050401-discurso-pronunciado-en-washington.php|title=Discurso pronunciado en Washington|work=ulpianoelromano.blogia.com}} He maintains his friendship with 1980 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,{{cite video|title=Adolfo Pérez Esquivel / Concejo Deliberante de La Plata|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Y2rEJGMnw|date=12 May 2011|publisher=mundoconcejo}} with whom he was imprisoned in unit nine of the La Plata.{{cite web|url=http://tiempo.infonews.com/notas/avanza-causa-de-los-hermanos-iaccarino |title=Avanza la causa de los hermanos Iaccarino |date=29 May 2011 |work=Tiempo Argentino |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504034628/http://tiempo.infonews.com/notas/avanza-causa-de-los-hermanos-iaccarino |archivedate=4 May 2014 }} In 1982, Iaccarino became a follower of former President of Argentina Arturo Frondizi until Frondizi's death in 1995.

{{anchor|Present}}Present day

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After Iaccarino was freed, he attended conferences of Argentine economic associations in Buenos Aires, Quilmes, San Juan, Mendoza, Tucumán and Mar del Plata. For several years he has lectured in municipalities and universities around the country, such as UNICEN, UNLP and UNLZ, about life during the Argentine Revolution.{{cite web|url=http://www.mda.gob.ar/nota.php?idnota=739&s=33 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140504034430/http://www.mda.gob.ar/nota.php?idnota=739&s=33 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-05-04 |title=Los hermanos Iaccarino relataron su propio infierno durante la dictadura |work=Municipalidad de Avellaneda }} On April 30, 2012, three men tried to assassinate Iaccarino at his home in La Plata.{{cite video|title=Huellas de la dictadura: agreden a empresario que denunció a represores|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxH25F83Tsg|date=3 May 2012|publisher=Visión Siete}}

{{anchor|Books written}}Books

With his brother Carlos, Iaccarino has written Father Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do (1998); Metanoia (2000); Secrets of World Power (2002),{{cite web|url=http://www.historiaargentina.tripod.com/id15.html|title=Stablisment, el secreto del poder mundial|work=www.historiaargentina.tripod.com|author=Iaccarino, Alejandro}} and The Forgotten Laws (2003).

Bibliography

{{cite book

| author = Muleiro, Vicente

| title = 1976. El golpe Civil

| year = 2011

| publisher = Planeta

| isbn = 9789504925118

}}

{{cite book

| author = Verbitsky, Horacio

| title = Cuentas Pendientes. Los cómplices económicos de la dictadura

| year = 2013

| publisher = Siglo Veintiuno

| isbn = 9789876293440

}}

{{cite book

|author1=Perosino, María Celeste |author2=Nápoli, Bruno |author3=Bosisio, Walter Alberto | title = Economía, Política y Sistema Financiero. La última dictadura cívico-militar en la CNV

| year = 2013

| publisher = Comisión Nacional de Valores

| isbn = 9789874508607

}}