Raúl Alberto Quijano

Raúl Alberto Quijano (13 December 1923 – 14 April 2006) was an Argentine lawyer and diplomat who served as foreign minister during the last months of the administration of President Isabel Perón.

[1] He worked at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations, at the Argentine embassy in India, the Consulate General in Pakistan and in the Legation in South Africa.

[1] When Quijano became Foreign Minister of the government of Isabel Perón he was well known in the United States, and the president counted on obtaining the goodwill of that country.

His first action was to meet with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who told him of the good intentions of his country but would not commit to anything, apparently expecting the coup that soon ended the Peronist government.

Relations with Brazil, however, were colored by mistrust and mutual recriminations due to the increased smuggling across the borders between the two countries.