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Jose Octavio Bordon
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Jose Octavio Bordon (december 22 1945 in Rosario) is an Argentine politician and diplomat. A former governor and candidate for President of Argentina, he has been the Argentine Ambassador to the United States since June 2003.
Bordon graduated in sociology from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires in 1970. He was Professor of Political Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 1972-1976 and again 1983-1995. He became President of the Fundacion Andina in 1982. In 1983 he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as deputy for Mendoza Province for the Justicialist Party. He was deputy chairman of the foreign affairs committee.
In 1987 Bordon was elected governor of Mendoza Province, stepping down in 1991. The following year he was elected to the Argentine Senate. Over that period he had become distant from the Peronist leadership, which under President Carlos Menem had moved to the right with neoliberal economic policies. In 1994 he led his followers into a new leftwing alliance, FrePaSo, with other parties and dissident Peronists. FrePaSo's popularity grew quickly. At that time he was a visiting professor at Georgetown University.
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