{"id":4235,"date":"2013-08-12T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4235"},"modified":"2013-08-12T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:34:33","slug":"508-juan-arroqui-y-familia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4235","title":{"rendered":"508. juan arroqui y familia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201304F13.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Juan Arroqui, Alfredo Palacios\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in 1880&#8212;just as Argentina settled decades of internal conflict &amp; millions of immigrants began to arrive&#8212;<strong>Alfredo Palacios<\/strong> would be remembered as the first Socialist Party member elected to any congress in Latin America. Palacios&#8217; early life was not easy, especially after his Uruguayan father decided to recognize legally <strong>all 19<\/strong> of his children&#8230; Alfredo being one of the illegitimate ones. This meant little money in the household, but Palacios worked hard to get a good education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noticed for his oratory skills even as a teenager, Palacios eventually graduated with a law degree. Committed to helping the underdog, his doctoral thesis titled &#8220;<em>La Miser\u00eda en la Rep\u00fablica Argentina<\/em>&#8221; went hand-in-hand with a sign posted at his residence\/office: &#8220;Lawyer. Free services for the poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201304F16.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Juan Arroqui, Alfredo Palacios\" width=\"334\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Palacios experienced a memorable first term in Congress when he uncovered &amp; exposed money laundering in&#8212;of all things&#8212;the construction of the national Congress building itself. Briefly kicked out of the Socialist Party for wanting to settle a disagreement with a duel, he continued to be active in various universities &amp; traveled extensively throughout South America. Palacios opposed US intervention in Latin American affairs during the 1920&#8217;s as much as he opposed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=3204\">1930 military coup<\/a> in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/201304F17.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Juan Arroqui, Alfredo Palacios\" width=\"330\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other causes dear to Palacios were repatriation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=170\">Falkland Islands<\/a>, better health care &amp; living conditions in northern Argentina &amp; in 1938 he tried to pass a bill for female suffrage. He remained at odds with Per\u00f3n &amp; had brief conflict with every administration afterwards. Palacios always remained true to socialist principles, even giving half his income to the Socialist Party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/images\/200807D12.jpg\" alt=\"Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Alfredo Palacios plaque\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1965 while serving as a <em>diputado<\/em> in Congress, Palacios passed away with practically no money to his name. He never married &amp; had no children, so I&#8217;ve been unable to determine how or why he was buried in the Arroqui mausoleum. Perhaps a brother or sister married into the Arroqui family? If anyone has additional information, please post a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1880&#8212;just as Argentina settled decades of internal conflict &amp; millions of immigrants began to arrive&#8212;Alfredo Palacios would be remembered as the first Socialist&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=4235\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">508. juan arroqui y familia<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}