10 December 1999 –15 December 2001
Mercedes Mariana "Nina" Aragonés de Juárez [2] (12 September 1926 [1] –25 July 2023) was an Argentine politician who was Governor of Santiago del Estero Province from 2002 to 2004. The wife of longtime governor and local caudillo [3] Carlos Arturo Juárez,Aragonés was the last head of a provincial state in Argentina removed from office through federal intervention.
Mercedes Aragonés de Juárez was born on 12 September 1926. [1] She was the second-ever woman to serve as governor of a province in Argentina,and the first in Santiago del Estero. [4] She assumed office upon the resignation of Governor Carlos Ricardo Díaz ,in whose ticket Aragonés had been elected as vice-governor. [5] In 2004,facing numerous accusations of corruption and embezzlement,she was removed from office by President Néstor Kirchner through federal intervention,a constitutional mechanism wherein the federal government of Argentina can intervene in a provincial government. [6]
In addition to the governorship,she held the positions of National Deputy representing Santiago del Estero,Minister of Women's Affairs,and president of the provincial chapter of the Female Peronist Party. [2]
Aragonés de Juárez died on 25 July 2023,at the age of 96. [7]
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