Nicasio Sánchez Toranzo

Nicasio Sánchez Toranzo
National Deputy
In office 10 December 1983 – 10 December 1987
Constituency	Tucumán
In office 25 May 1973 – 24 March 1976
Constituency	Tucumán
President of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 17 July 1975 – 24 March 1976
Preceded by	Raúl Lastiri
Succeeded by	Juan Carlos Pugliese
Personal details
Born	1905 (1905) Tucumán Province
Died	24 April 2009(2009-04-24) (aged 103–104)
Political party	Radical Civic Union Justicialist Party

Nicasio Juan Sánchez Toranzo (1905 – 24 April 2009) was an Argentine diplomat and politician of the Justicialist Party. He served as a member of the National Chamber of Deputies from 1973 to 1976 and from 1983 to 1987, and was president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1975 to 1976.

Sánchez Toranzo's political career began in his native Tucumán Province as a member of the Radical Civic Union and an agrarian leader.^[1] He would later become part of the Peronist Party, and in 1955 he was appointed chargé d'affaires of Argentina to Guatemala by President Juan Perón.^[2] As Argentina's diplomatic envoy in Guatemala during the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Sánchez Toranzo gave protection to Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who was at the time staying in Guatemala City.^[3]

In 1975, following the resignation of Raúl Lastiri as president of the Chamber of Deputies, President Isabel Perón appointed Sánchez Toranzo as president of the Chamber upon recommendation of Peronist members of Congress.^[4] He would become a loyal member of Isabel Perón's reduced political circle.^[5] Alongside the rest of Congress, Sánchez Toranzo was deposed by the 1976 coup d'état.

Following the return of democracy in 1983, Sánchez Toranzo was once again elected to the Chamber of Deputies in Tucumán for the 1983–1987 term.^[6]

References

1. Lichtmajer, Leandro; Parra, María Graciana (July 2014). "Revisando la crisis de los partidos desde una escala provincial.Radicales y conservadores en Tucumán (1940-1943)". Revista de Historia Americana y Argentina (in Spanish). 49 (1). Universidad Nacional de Cuyo: 1-28. ISSN 2314-1549.
2. Pérez Loira, Lois (16 May 2021). "Ernesto Guevara recorre Honduras y Guatemala". Agencia Paco Urondo (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2022.
3. Sánchez, Matilde (2003). Che, sueño rebelde (in Spanish). Barcelona: Icaria Editorial. p. 47. ISBN 8474266602.
4. Halperín, Jorge (2012). Las muchachas peronistas (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-9870425489.
5. Muiño, Oscar (2013). Alfonsín. Mitos y verdades del padre de la democracia (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-9870431947.
6. Monti, Guillermo (25 October 2019). "76 diputados, 36 años y la pregunta de siempre: ¿ahora qué?". La Gaceta (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2022.

Political offices
Preceded by Raúl Lastiri	President of the Chamber of Deputies 1975–1976	Vacant 1976 coup d'état Title next held by Juan Carlos Pugliese