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' {{Short description|Argentine politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jorge Capitanich |image = Jorge Capitanich -presidenciagovar - 9OCT07.jpg |order = [[Governor of Chaco]] |vicegovernor = [[Analía Rach Quiroga]] |term_start = 10 December 2019 |term_end = |predecessor = [[Domingo Peppo]] |term1 = 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2015<br />{{small|On leave: 20 November 2013 – 27 February 2015}} |vicegovernor1 = [[Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff]] |predecessor1 = [[Roy Nikisch]] |successor1 = [[Domingo Peppo]] |office3 = [[Resistencia, Chaco|Mayor of Resistencia]] |term_start3 = 10 December 2015 |term_end3 = 10 December 2019 |predecessor3 = [[Aída Ayala]] |successor3 = Gustavo Martínez |office4 = [[Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers]] |president4 = [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]] |term_start4 = 20 November 2013 |term_end4 = 26 February 2015 |predecessor4 = [[Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr.|Juan Manuel Abal Medina]] |successor4 = [[Aníbal Fernández]] |president5 = [[Eduardo Duhalde]] |term_start5 = 2 January 2002 |term_end5 = 3 May 2002 |predecessor5 = [[Antonio Cafiero]] |successor5 = [[Alfredo Atanasof]] |office6 = [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]] |term_start6 = 10 December 2001 |term_end6 = 10 December 2007 |constituency6 = [[Chaco Province|Chaco]] |office7 = [[Ministry of Economy (Argentina)|Minister of Economy, Social Development, Labour and Health]] |term_start7 = 21 December 2001 |term_end7 = 23 December 2007 |president7 = [[Ramón Puerta]] |predecessor7 = [[Domingo Cavallo]] {{small|(as Minister of Economy)}} |successor7 = [[Rodolfo Frigeri]] {{small|(as Secretary of the Treasury)}} |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|11|28|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña]], [[Argentina]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Justicialist Party]] |alma_mater = [[National University of the Northeast]]<br>[[University of Belgrano]]<br>[[University of San Andrés]] }} '''Jorge Milton Capitanich''' (born November 28, 1964) is an [[Argentina|Argentine]] politician, businessman, and accountant who became [[Governor of Chaco|Governor]] of [[Chaco Province]] in 2019, having held the position before from 2007 to 2013 and then from February to December 2015. A member of the [[Justicialist Party]], he previously served as [[Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers]] from 2013 until 2015, serving under President [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]], as ''[[intendente]]'' (mayor) of Chaco's capital city, [[Resistencia, Chaco|Resistencia]], and as [[Argentine Senate|National Senator]], representing Chaco as well. Since 2007 he has also been president of the Sarmiento Athletic Club. Capitanich's career, stated ''[[La Nación]]'' in November 2013, has been “punctuated by harsh allegations of corruption.”<ref name=lanac1>{{cite news| title =Dos denuncias de corrupción que salpicaron a Jorge Capitanich| work =[[La Nación]]| date =Nov 21, 2013| url =http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1640309-dos-denuncias-de-corrupcion-que-salpicaron-a-jorge-capitanich}}</ref> He has been described elsewhere as “a true symbol of the corruption of politics in Argentina”<ref name=baja>{{cite web| title =ARGENTINA, CHACO: ¿QUIEN ES JORGE MILTON CAPITANICH POPOVICH?| work =Bajando Lineas| date =Jun 25, 2012| url =http://www.bajandolineas.com.ar/2012/06/argentina-chaco-quien-es-jorge-milton-capitanich-popovich/| url-status =dead| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150309/http://www.bajandolineas.com.ar/2012/06/argentina-chaco-quien-es-jorge-milton-capitanich-popovich/| archivedate =2015-04-02}}</ref> He is said to have been a favorite of the late President [[Nestor Kirchner]],<ref name=perf>{{cite web| last =Leuco| first =Alfredo| title =El socio de Coqui| work =Perfil| date =Nov 29, 2013| url =http://www.perfil.com/columnistas/El-socio-de-Coqui-20131129-0064.html}}</ref> and ''[[La Nación]]'' has called him “a loyal Kirchnerista since the first hour” and a perennial [[Peron]]ist. As of November 2013, he was considered a leading contender in the presidential election of 2015.<ref name=lanac2>{{cite news| title =Quién es quién en el nuevo gabinete| work =[[La Nación]]| date =Nov 19, 2013| url =http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1639640-quien-es-quien-en-el-nuevo-gabinete}}</ref> ==Early life and education== Capitanich (originally ''Kapitanić'') descends from the first [[Montenegro|Montenegrins]] who settled in Chaco and created ''[[Montenegrins in Argentina|Colonia La Montenegrina]]'', the biggest Montenegrin colony in [[South America]]. He was born in [[Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña]], the son of Daniel Capitanich and Mirca Popovich, who owned a small farm.<ref name=baja/> The family hails from [[Banjani]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Metropolitan Amfilohije meets with Jorge Capitanich, Governor of the province of Chaco|publisher=SPC|url=http://www.spc.rs/eng/metropolitan_amfilohije_meets_jorge_capitanich_governor_province_chaco}}</ref> He attended the [[National University of the Northeast]], graduating with a degree in [[accountancy]] in 1988. He earned a post-graduate degree in [[public administration]] from the [[University of Belgrano]] in 1991, and taught in his discipline. In 1999 he obtained a master's degree in Economics and Political Science at the School of Economics and Business Administration.<ref name=mision>{{cite web| title =Bendición presidencial para Capitanich: triple mal trago para Gildo Insfrán| work =Misiones para Todos| url =http://misionesparatodos.com/bendicion-presidencial-para-capitanich-triple-mal-trago-para-gildo-insfran/}}</ref> [[File:Jorge Capitanich 2015-02-02.jpg|thumb|left|Capitanich destroying a [[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín newspaper]] after wrongly accusing the newspaper of publishing false information. 2015]] ==Career== ===Early political career=== Capitanich took up his first position in politics in 1987, serving as private secretary to the Governor of Chaco province, [[Danilo Baroni]],<ref name=lanac2/> Capitanich thereafter experienced a quick rise through the government ranks. In 1994 he was named coordinator of a private-sector jobs-creation program in the Ministry of Assistance for the Reform of the Provincial Economy. The next year he became assistant secretary for technical-administrative coordination in the Ministry of Social Development. In 1998, he was appointed assistant secretary of social projects in the Ministry of Social Development. And in 2001, he was named Minister of Infrastructure.<ref name=baja/><ref name=bub>{{cite web| last =Beaudette| first =Noah| title =If Capitanich Wants to be President, He Needs a (Non) Crazy Ex-wife| work =The Bubble| date =Dec 20, 2013| url =http://www.bubblear.com/if-capitanich-wants-to-be-president-he-needs-a-non-crazy-ex-wife/}}</ref> ===Senate=== Capitanich was elected Senator for Chaco in October 2001, and named Argentina's interim [[Minister of Economy of Argentina]] during the [[December 2001 riots in Argentina|institutional crisis]] of December 21 of that year, serving for two days in the post. President [[Eduardo Duhalde]] appointed Capitanich [[Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers]] on January 2, 2002.<ref name=mision/> While in that position under Duhalde, Capitanich was involved in the consulting firm M-Unit, for which he was accused of arranging covert government financing.<ref name=baja/> He worked at M-Unit with Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, with whom he collaborated on a book.<ref name=per/> Capitanich held the position of Cabinet Chief until May 2002. He retained his Senate seat, and supported President [[Néstor Kirchner]]'s [[Front for Victory]]. In 2003 he stood to be governor of Chaco, but was defeated by [[Roy Nikisch]] of the [[Radical Civic Union]]. ===Governor=== On 12 September 2007, he stepped down from the senate to be elected Governor of Chaco on 16 September 2007, taking office on December 10.<ref name="Montenegrina">{{Cite web|url=http://www.montenegrina.net/pages/pages1/dijaspora/guverner_argentinske_provincije_chaco.htm|title=MONTENEGRINA - digitalna biblioteka crnogorske kulture i nasljedja|website=www.montenegrina.net}}</ref> In that election, he defeated former governor [[Ángel Rozas]] by a margin of just 0.8% of the vote.<ref name="Clarin">{{Cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/chaco-jorge-capitanich-impuso-08-proclamo-gobernador_0_rkiWn5Jy0Yg.html|title=Chaco: Jorge Capitanich se impuso por menos del 0,8% y se proclamó gobernador|date=September 16, 2007|website=www.clarin.com}}</ref> Capitanich was the first Argentine of Montenegrin origin to hold the Governor's post in any province. While he was governor of Chaco, Capitanich appointed his wife, Sandra Mendoza, to be provincial Minister of Health. Her handling of a [[2009 dengue epidemic]] in the province was criticized because she used expired pesticides on the mosquitoes. Capitanich asked her to resign, in response to which she “jumped into her Toyota truck and proceeded to use it as a battering ram, destroying six parked cars and an entire section of the government building’s wall.” She then campaigned successfully to represent Chaco in Congress, and led a protest outside the statehouse in which 30 people were detained. She filed for divorce shortly thereafter.<ref name=bub/> In May 2013, Capitanich's vice governor, [[Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff]], accused him of doing nothing to combat drug trafficking. Bacileff said that Capitanich had lost control of the province and described it as being in a state of “anarchy.” One report noted that the province is located “near the smuggling hub of the Triple Frontier, which is a major transit point for drugs smuggled out of [[Paraguay]] and into Argentina,” and that the [[Sinaloa Cartel]] allegedly produces and distributes synthetic drugs in the province. Members of the opposition Radical Civil Union Party (UCR) filed a petition to investigate Bacileff's charges.<ref>{{cite web| last =Bargent| first =James| title =Drug Trade "Anarchy" in Argentina Border State Sparks Controversy | work =Insight Crime| date =May 15, 2013| url =http://www.insightcrime.org/news-briefs/argentina-drug-trafficking-corruption-chaco}}</ref> ==Gabinet chief== In 2013, during the second term of Cristina Fernández, he was appointed Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers and Bacileff Ivanoff replaced him as acting governor of the province of Chaco. As Chief of Staff, he was characterized by regularly submitting reports to both houses of Congress and holding daily morning press conferences. On February 26, 2015, his replacement by the Secretary General of the Presidency, Aníbal Fernández, was announced. Capitanich had announced that same day, his intention to run for Mayor of the City of Resistance. The next day, he resumed as governor of the Chaco. ==Honors and awards== In 1997 Capitanich received the Annual ADEBA (Association of Argentine Banks) Award for efficiency in social spending.<ref>{{cite web| title =actividades premio adeba| work =ADEBA| url =http://www.adeba.com.ar/actividades-premio-adeba.php}}</ref> In 2008 he was given a Konex Award in recognition of his career as a senator. ==Personal life== Capitanich and Sandra Mendoza have two daughters together.<ref name=lanac2/> ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080218191921/http://capitanich.senado.gov.ar/ Argentine Senate website] *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2254031.stm Madness checks for Argentine politicians], [[BBC News Online]], 12 September 2002 {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=[[Domingo Cavallo]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Minister of Economy of Argentina|Minister of Economy]]<br>{{small|Acting}}|years=2001}} {{s-aft|after=[[Rodolfo Frigeri]]}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[Antonio Cafiero]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers]]|years=2002}} {{s-aft|after=[[Alfredo Atanasof]]}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[Roy Nikisch]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Governor of Chaco]]|years=2007–2013}} {{s-aft|after={{nowrap|[[Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff]]}}}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[Juan Manuel Abal Medina, Jr.|Juan Manuel Abal Medina]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers]]|years=2013–2015}} {{s-aft|after=[[Aníbal Fernández]]}} |- {{s-bef|before={{nowrap|[[Juan Carlos Bacileff Ivanoff]]}}}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Governor of Chaco]]|years=2015}} {{s-aft|after=[[Domingo Peppo]]}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[:es:Aída Ayala|Aída Ayala]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Resistencia, Chaco|Mayor of Resistencia]]|years=2015–2019}} {{s-aft|after=Gustavo Martínez}} |- {{s-bef|before=[[Domingo Peppo]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Governor of Chaco]]|years=2019–present}} {{s-aft|after=Incument}} {{s-end}} {{Navboxes top |title= Jorge Capitanich navigational boxes |state=collapsed }} {{ArgentinaGovernors}} {{Duhalde cabinet}} {{CFK cabinet 2}} {{Argentine national senators, 2001–2003}} {{Argentine national senators, 2003–2005}} {{Argentine national senators, 2005–2007}} {{Cabinet Chiefs of Argentina}} {{navboxes end}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Capitanich, Jorge}} [[Category:1964 births]] [[Category:Argentine accountants]] [[Category:Argentine Ministers of Finance]] [[Category:Argentine people of Montenegrin descent]] [[Category:Argentine people of Serbian descent]] [[Category:Argentine Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Chiefs of Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina]] [[Category:Governors of Chaco Province]] [[Category:Justicialist Party politicians]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Members of the Argentine Senate for Chaco]] [[Category:Mayors of Resistencia, Chaco]] [[Category:National University of the Northeast alumni]] [[Category:People from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña]]'