Alberto Iribarne, Former Justice Minister Under Néstor Kirchner, Dies at 75
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- Alberto Juan Bautista Iribarne, who served as Argentina’s justice minister under Néstor Kirchner and ambassador to Uruguay under Alberto Fernández, has died at 75.
- His daughters confirmed the death in a joint social-media post and described him as warm, generous and deeply committed to social and political service.
- Iribarne also served as a national deputy, constitutional convention delegate and lawyer involved in human-rights and trade-union cases during Argentina’s dictatorship.
Alberto Juan Bautista Iribarne, a former Argentine justice minister and ambassador, has died at the age of 75. His daughters, Florencia and Inés Iribarne, confirmed his death in a joint message on social media.
Today we say goodbye with immense sadness to our father, Alberto Juan Bautista Iribarne (1950-2026). An affectionate and supportive man with deep convictions, he made social and political commitment a way of life and service.
“Today we say goodbye with immense sadness to our father, Alberto Juan Bautista Iribarne (1950-2026),” they wrote. They described him as an affectionate and supportive man with deep convictions who made social and political commitment a way of life and service.
His daughters said they valued his human qualities beyond the positions and honors he held. “Above the offices and honors, we are left with the man: his generosity, his word, his teachings and the mark he left on those who shared his path,” they wrote.
Above the offices and honors, we are left with the man: his generosity, his word, his teachings and the mark he left on those who shared his path.
Iribarne served as a national deputy, a member of the constitutional convention, justice minister and ambassador. Agustín Rossi, a national deputy and former defense minister, described him as a consistent Peronist committed to his ideas, with great warmth and kindness. Mariano Caucino, Argentina’s ambassador to India and a former ambassador to Israel, called him part of a generation that sought to build a democratic and modern Peronism.
Alberto Iribarne has died. Always a defender of the Peronist cause. A consistent companion in ideas, with great warmth and kindness.
Born in 1950, Iribarne studied at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and earned a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires at 23. He later taught at the university and its Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. His political involvement began in 1969 with the Catholic Student Youth. During Argentina’s last military dictatorship, he practiced law, joined a reform movement within the lawyers’ organization Proa and wrote for underground publications. After the April 27, 1979 general strike, he represented detained trade-union leaders and helped present the Peronist Party’s case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. After democracy returned, he worked as deputy parliamentary secretary and parliamentary secretary of the Senate.
A representative of a generation that sought to build a democratic and modern Peronism.
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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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