The sugar businessman Carlos Pedro Blaquier, owner of the Ledesma brand, died on Monday at the age of 95 after being hospitalized in a delicate state in the past 20 days.
Born on August 28, 1927, graduated from UBA in 1951 as a lawyer and joined the Ledesma firm a year later. Almost a decade later, he became a member of the board of directors of the Argentine Sugar Center and in 1970 was elected president of Ledesma SAAI.
His wife was Nelly Arrieta de Blaquier -who died in 2020-, grandson of the French brother who more than a century ago bought the first 10,000 hectares of the Jujuy sugar factory. For more than four decades, Carlos Pedro has been president of the company, a position he decided to leave 10 years ago due to his advanced age.
Among other titles, he was a life member of the Argentine Society of Historians, tenured academician of the National Academy of Economic Sciences, member of the Argentine Academy of History and also of the Argentine Council for Economic, Legal and Social Studies.
The entrepreneur was tried for crimes against humanity linked to the last military dictatorship that took place at the Ledesma sugar factory.
Source: Clarin
