 The newly elected President of Argentina, Arturo Illia of the UCR, appointed Suárez chairman of the national oil company, YPF.He was one of the first UCR officials to meet the exiled populist leader, former President Juan Perón, at the latter's "Puerta de Hierro" residence in Madrid.Suárez was removed from his post at YPF by the 1966 military coup against Illia.