Juan Carlos Alderete


Juan Carlos Alderete is an Argentine politician and social leader. He is the leader of the CCC and national leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina. In 2019, he assumed position as one of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Province of Buenos Aires, replacing Carlos Castagneto, through the Frente de Todos.

Biography

At the age of 15 Juan arrived in Buenos Aires alone and without money, hoping to start a soccer career and get money to travel to Cuba attracted by the ideas of the Cuban Revolution. He got his first job in the La Paternal neighborhood washing machines in a restaurant.

Political career

In 1971 he got a job in a dairy company and made contact with union activists. During the last military dictatorship, he was accused of trying to kidnap the mother of a Ford company official. Due to this he decided to take refuge in Salta in the house of one of his brothers, after six months he returned to the city and was arrested by the authorities. He served 7 years of sentence in the Caseros Prison. He was released in December 1981.
After his release in 1983 he began his neighborhood militancy organizing a neighborhood meeting to avoid evictions in the Matanza Party. During the economic crisis of the late 1990's, he organized popular pots with the director Luis D´Elía. Facing the Neo-liberal policies of President Fernando De La Rùa, he organized the first massive cut on Route 3, in November 2000, which lasted 18 days. In 2008, during the Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector, he supported the claim of the Agricultural Liaison Table. From his seat as member of Argentine Chamber of Deputies he supported the law of "social solidarity and productive reactivation in the framework of the economic emergency" sent to Congress by President Alberto Fernández at the end of 2019.