Miguel Ángel Toma

Miguel Ángel Toma
Secretary of State Intelligence
In office July 10, 2002 – May 25, 2003
President	Eduardo Duhalde
Preceded by	Carlos Soria
Succeeded by	Sergio Acevedo
National Deputy for the City of Buenos Aires
In office December 10, 1999 – July 10, 2002
In office December 10, 1985 – December 10, 1997
Personal details
Born	September 18, 1949[1] Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Political party	Justicialist Party
Spouse(s)	Patricia Azura
Alma mater	Universidad del Salvador

Miguel Ángel Toma (born September 18, 1949) is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician.

Biography

Toma earned degrees in Philosophy and Theology at the San Miguel campus of the Jesuit Universidad del Salvador. He was an early supporter of Antonio Cafiero's Peronist Renewal faction within the Justicialist Party, and was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the City of Buenos Aires in 1985.^[2] He served in the defense and security committees. His party list lost the 1997 congressional primaries to Daniel Scioli's, however, who enjoyed the support of President Carlos Menem,^[3] and Toma consequently left Congress. Supported by close Menem adviser José Luis Manzano, Toma was appointed Secretary of Security by Menem in 1998.^[4]

Amid political crisis of December 2001, Toma was appointed Minister of Justice, Interior, Defense and Human Rights, holding all roles concurrently for just 48 hours.^[5] He was subsequently named president of the Buenos Aires Province chapter of the Justicialist Party.^[2]

Toma was the Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina from July 2002 to 2003. He was appointed by then President Eduardo Duhalde to replace the previous Secretary, Carlos Soria, following the assassination of two left-wing agitators in Avellaneda.^[6] During his tenure, the final report on the AMIA bombing was published to the judicial branch and foreign intelligence services, but would remain classified to the general public.^[2]

Toma was brought on as a campaign adviser to Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri in the latter's putative 2011 campaign for the presidency.^[7]

See also

• List of Argentine Secretaries of Intelligence

References

1. "¿Quién y por qué está “operando” para apartar a Oyarbide?". Informe Reservado.
2. "Miguel Angel Toma: Manzano debería volver". La Nación.
3. Scioli se impuso en el PJ Capital (Spanish)
4. "Apto para todo servicio". Página/12.
5. MINISTROS DEL INTERIOR DE LA NACIÓN 1854-2007 (Spanish)
6. "Álvarez asumirá hoy en Justicia y Seguridad; Toma llega a la SIDE". La Nación.
7. "Miguel Ángel Toma es el flamante asesor de imagen de Mauricio Macri". El Argentino. 7 June 2010.