Jorge Taiana
Jorge Taiana is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician, currently Foreign Minister (canciller) in the government of President Néstor Kirchner. His father was Jorge Alberto Taiana, colleague of and doctor to Juan Perón.
Taiana studied sociology and gained a masters in Social Sciences. He was a researcher at the National University of Quilmes and worked in the field of human rights. In the 1970s, Taiana worked alongside his father in the ministry of Education and was a militant Peronist. Despite being threatened by the Triple A, he decided to remain in the country. On 1975-07-04, he and his wife, Graciela 'Inés' Iturraspe, allegedly organised the bombing of a Buenos Aires bar El Ibérico, targeting a naval officer but killing two bystanders. He was imprisoned in 1975 and spent seven years in jail, mostly in the prison of Rawson.
Following his release, Taiana entered the service of the Foreign Ministry and was appointed by Carlos Menem as Ambassador to Guatemala and Belize 1992-95. He served as Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS 1996-2001 and then became Secretary for Human Rights with the Government of the Province of Buenos Aires.
Kirchner appointed Taiana as Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Faith in December 2005, replacing Rafael Bielsa, having been Bielsa's deputy. In his first few months, Taiana has presided over the United Nations Security Council and had to deal with the issues of Argentina's claim with the Falkland Islands, the paper mill dispute with Uruguay and the accession of Venezuala to Mercosur.