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Carlos Saavedra Lamas

1878–1959 · 20th century

Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine jurist and foreign minister from 1932 to 1938. He drafted an anti-war treaty signed by many American states in 1933 and helped mediate the end of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936, the first Latin American to win a Nobel Prize.

Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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