Verónica Magario
Verónica María Magario (born 26 May 1969) is an Argentine politician, currently serving as Vice Governor of Buenos Aires Province, alongside Governor Axel Kicillof, since 10 December 2019. From 2015 to 2019, Magario was intendente (mayor) of La Matanza, the most populous partido in the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. She was also a National Deputy from 2013 to 2015, and member of the La Matanza city council from 2011 to 2013. Early life and education Verónica María Magario was born on 26 May 1969 in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, in Santa Fe Province. Her parents were María Eugenia Calderón, a school teacher, and Raúl Magario, a member of Montoneros and the organization's financial administrator. She spent most of her childhood in San Isidro and Ramos Mejía, but after the 1976 coup d'état, her family was forced into exile in Mexico, where she lived for eight years. The family returned to Argentina in 1984, after the fall of the last military dictatorship, and Raúl Magario was imprisoned; he was released in 1989 following a pardon issued by president Carlos Menem. Magario attended the Otto Krause Technical School and graduated with a technical degree on chemistry, which she used