the involvement of numerous SIDE officials in the far-right Carapintadas, and the surveillance of opposition senators for human weaknesses to be used against them in future political operations. Following Alfonsín's departure in 1989, Suárez served in the UCR National Committee, and was elected to the 1994 Constitutional Amendments Convention. His son, Facundo Suárez Lastra, also became a politician and served as mayor of Buenos Aires from 1986 to 1989. Suárez developed cancer, and died in Buenos Aires in 1998, at age 74. See also List of Argentine Secretaries of Intelligence References 1923 births 1998 deaths People from Mendoza, Argentina Argentine people of Spanish descent National University of La Plata alumni National University of Cuyo alumni Argentine political scientists Radical Civic Union politicians Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Mendoza Ambassadors of Argentina to Mexico Argentine Secretaries of Intelligence Deaths from cancer in Argentina 20th-century political scientists