José Mouso

José Mouso (Buenos Aires, July 21, 1889 - August 14, 1974) was an Argentine politician and diplomat, a member of the Socialist Party. Secretary of trade union action of the Ferrocarriles del Sud railway union. Founder of several philodromatic, cooperative and mutual societies. With the sanction of martial law, the state of siege the dictatorship of General Uriburu impelled a repressive policy towards the labor movement will be imprisoned in the Criminal of Ushuaia, where it would suffer torture.

In 1940 - being Labor Minister General Peron - he joined Peronism. He studied at the Diplomatic School and was a worker at the Italian embassy and chancellor plenipotentiary in Mexico until the overthrow of Peronism in 1955, going underground thereafter.

Exiled in Paraguay, he was arrested on a clandestine trip to Buenos Aires and imprisoned in the prison of Ushuaia (in the extreme south of Argentina), escaped along with other prominent Peronist leaders, among whom was the later president of Argentina Héctor Cámpora. They passed to Chile and from there he moved back to Buenos Aires, where he died.

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