Silvio Frondizi was born in
Paso de los Libres,
Corrientes Province, in 1907. He had brothers Arturo and Risieri. He received a
juris doctor from the
University of Buenos Aires, and subsequently taught law at the
University of Tucumán. Opposed to the
1943 coup d'état, he resigned his post in the university's administrative council, and in 1946, was purged from his academic post by order of the newly elected President
Juan Perón, a populist with a strongly
anti-communist stance. Frondizi founded
Praxis y Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR-Praxis), a left-wing revolutionary group, in 1955. He then traveled to
Cuba in support of
Fidel Castro's revolution, meeting
Che Guevara. Frondizi taught law at both his alma mater and the
University of La Plata, from 1958 onwards, when his brother, center-left
UCRI leader
Arturo Frondizi, was elected president. During the latter's tenure, Silvio Frondizi became known for his opposition to a 1959 bill supported by his brother, which supported the operation of
parochial schools. As part of his law practice during the 1960s and early 1970s, he defended the Trotskyist
Workers Revolutionary Party's (PRT) political prisoners.
Death Silvio Frondizi was assassinated by the
Triple A death squad in September 1974. ==References==