Eduardo Duhalde
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde Maldonado is a former president of Argentina.
Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires. He graduated as a lawyer in 1970. In 1987 he became a member of the Argentine National Congress and became vice-president under Carlos Menem from 1989 to his resignation in 1991. In 1991 he won the first of two terms as governor of Buenos Aires.
He ran for president in 1999, after a failed attempt by Carlos Menem to run for a third term, but he was defeated by Fernando de la Rua. Duhalde came in second place with 37% of the vote. After de la Rua's resignation, due to the economic crisis and the December 2001 riots, Duhalde was appointed President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly on 2 January 2002 during an unclear series of events that some people deemed as a conspiracy .
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