Jorge Alberto Vázquez Agodino (San Francisco, 1943 — Buenos Aires,[citation needed] March 17, 2007) was an Argentine diplomat and politician.
[2] During that time, he was Argentine representative before the third General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS), which was held in Lima (Peru) in June and July of that year.
[1][3] On June 21, he gave a speech that condemned U.S. foreign policy, identifying it as the main cause of the "deformation" of the inter-American system, and proposed revising the TIAR to adapt it to political multipolarism and ideological pluralism.
[6] Internally, Vázquez received the support of the National and Latin American Movement, while senators from the Radical Civic Union asked the Executive Branch to review the TIAR.
[1] Along with other officials such as Juan Carlos Olima, Alfredo Chiaradía and Jorge Taiana, he opposed the policy implemented by the Menemist Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella, who proposed in 1991 that Argentina abandon its traditional third-world and anti-American position in the U.N. General Assembly to get closer to the United States votes.
Di Tella threatened him that he had to obtain a 60% vote coincidence with the United States in the next General Assembly, if he wanted to retain the position of representative to the U.N.[9] Vázquez had also expressed his opposition to the pro-American bias of Menem's first chancellor, Domingo Cavallo.
[1] In the 1995 elections he joined the Frente País Solidario (FREPASO), being a candidate for vice-governor of the province of Buenos Aires along with Carlos Auyero, of the Christian Democracy.