page_title: Dante Caputo
section_title: Political activity and public service
hierarchical_section_title: Dante Caputo / Political activity and public service
caption_attribution_description: El Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores, José A. García Belaunde, recibió en audiencia al Jefe de la Misión de Observación Electoral de la OEA, señor Dante Caputo
context_page_description: Dante Caputo was an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín.
context_section_description: Alfonsín's stand, though unpopular at the time, soon proved correct and was partly responsible for his securing the Radical Civic Union (UCR) nomination in 1983.  Raúl Alfonsín was elected president on 30 October, upon which he named Dante Caputo Foreign Minister-designate.
  After helping shepherd the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina to ratification by voters and congress, Caputo was honored with the ceremonial post of UN General Assembly President in November 1988.
  Following his departure from the foreign minister's desk, Caputo was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and he served as vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
  In 1992 Caputo represented the OAS and the United Nations in Haiti as a special envoy. In 1993 he was appointed the UN Secretary-General's representative to Haiti, as an under-secretary of the UN, and negotiated an agreement to allow democratic transition on the island.
  Having been a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Caputo endorsed the FrePaSo ticket ahead of the 1995 general elections, and joined the centre-left party New Space (Nuevo Espacio), later that year. He served as Vice President of the Frepaso coalition from 1996 on behalf of New Space. In 1997, he was once again elected a deputy. He left New Space after personal differences with Carlos Raimundi, and in 1998 joined the Popular Socialist Party, remaining as vice-president of FrePaSo until 2000. In 1999, he sought the FrePaSo nomination for election as Mayor of Buenos Aires, but lost to Aníbal Ibarra, who went on to win in 2000.
  In 2000, Caputo joined the government of Fernando de la Rúa, who had won the Presidency at the head of the UCR-FrePaSo Alliance, in 1999. Caputo became Secretary of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, where he served until February 2001.
  Between June 2001 and September 2004, he directed the Regional Project on democratic development in Latin America of the United Nations Development Programme.
  He was a member of the Council of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Argentina and served as the Secretary for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States.
caption: Caputo in 2011
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