Oscar Castillo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Oscar Castillo

Argentine politician

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1954

Place of Birth: San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca Province, Argentina

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Oscar Castillo

  • Oscar Aníbal Castillo (born 18 January 1954) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, currently a Senator for the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca and a former governor of that province.
  • He is the son of the late Arnoldo Castillo, a leading figure in the Catamarca UCR. Castillo was born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca.
  • He studied at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral becoming a lawyer.
  • He was active in student politics, serving as secretary of his faculty's student union and representing his university at the Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires in 1980.
  • He married the former Silvia Brocal, an accountant, and had two children. Castillo has held high office in the UCR.
  • He was President of the UCR youth wing in Catamarca Province (1981–83), and represented his province on the UCR national committee, in 1990-96 and 2001–04, and was vice-president and treasurer of the party.
  • Castillo served as a provincial deputy (legislator) in Catamarca (1985–89), and was UCR-MPC caucus leader.
  • He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1989 and reelected, serving until 1997.
  • Castillo ran for and was elected governor of Catamarca in 1999, serving until 2003.
  • His tenure was marked by debates regarding the separation of church and state.
  • Castillo, who had taken his oath as a legislator without mentioning God in two previous occasions, imposed mandatory religious education of a Roman Catholic nature in Catamarca schools; protest from the province's sizable Jewish community and others led to the policy's rescission in 2001, however.Catamarca voters returned him to the Senate upon completion of his term as governor.
  • His reelection campaign, however, was followed by a challenge of the results amid accusations of vote buying and collusion with Governor Eduardo Brizuela del Moral to that effect; his personal estate, which includes at least a dozen properties in the province, has also come under scrutiny.

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