Luis María Drago ( - ) was an

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politician. Born into a distinguished Argentine family in

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, Drago began his career as a newspaper editor. Later, he served as a minister of foreign affairs (1902). At that time, when the UK,

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, and

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were seeking to collect the public debt of Venezuela by force, he wrote to the Argentine minister in

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setting forth his doctrine, commonly known as the

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External links

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Columbia Encyclopedia article on Luis María Drago

Encyclopedia.com article on Luis María Drago
1859 births 1921 deaths People from Buenos Aires Argentine journalists Male journalists Foreign ministers of Argentina Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery {{Argentina-politician-stub