during the Trial of the Juntas in 1985, had stated that the Isabel Perón government (which presided over the early phase of the Dirty War) believed that common police tactics were not enough to combat the guerrilla threat, and that he learned of human rights violations committed at the time only after Perón's overthrow in the March 1976 coup d'état. Cafiero served as President of COPPPAL, the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean, from 2005 to 2011. He died on 13 October 2014 in Buenos Aires. References 1922 births 2014 deaths People from Buenos Aires Argentine people of Italian descent University of Buenos Aires alumni Argentine accountants Justicialist Party politicians Governors of Mendoza Province Argentine Ministers of Finance Ambassadors of Argentina to Belgium Ambassadors of Argentina to the Holy See Ambassadors of Argentina to Chile Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Buenos Aires Province Governors of Buenos Aires Province Members of the Argentine Senate for Buenos Aires Province Chiefs of Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina Deaths from pneumonia in Argentina