Héctor Icazuriaga (born 9 January 1955) is the former
Secretary of Intelligence of
Argentina
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who served from 2004 until 2014.
Icazuriaga was born in
Chivilcoy
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,
Buenos Aires Province to
Basque Argentine parents (his
Basque
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descent inspired his nickname, ''El vasco'', though he is also known as ''Pancho'' and ''El Chango''). He enrolled at the
University of La Plata
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, and earned a ''
juris doctor''; he later married and had two children.
He relocated to
Santa Cruz Province, where he was elected to the Provincial Legislature on the
Justicialist Party ticket. Icazuriaga was elected Vice President of the Legislature by his peers, and upon Vice Governor
Sergio Acevedo's election to the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1999, he was nominated as Governor
Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner (; 25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, Secretary General of UNASUR and ...
's running mate, taking office as Vice Governor on 10 December.
Kirchner's own election to the Presidency in April 2003 led to Icazuriaga's appointment as governor. Acevedo, who had been named President Kirchner's first
Intelligence Secretariat Director, became a candidate for the post later that year, however, and upon the latter's election, Icazuriaga was named to replace him, effective 10 December 2004. He served President Néstor Kirchner, as well as his wife and successor,
Cristina Kirchner
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, as Director of Intelligence, becoming among the longest-serving officeholders in the post's history. Icazuriaga enjoyed a relatively good working relationship with both Presidents Kirchner, though his deputy director,
Francisco Larcher, is reportedly closer to the couple than the Director himself.
''Seprin''
See also
* Francisco Larcher
* List of Secretaries of Intelligence
External links
Santa Cruz province Chamber of Deputies
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine people of Basque descent
National University of La Plata alumni
20th-century Argentine lawyers
Governors of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Vice Governors of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina
Argentine Secretaries of Intelligence
Justicialist Party politicians
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