Jorge Cáceres | |
Fullname: | Jorge Esteban Cáceres Monié |
Birth Date: | 14 April 1917 |
Birth Place: | Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina |
Death Place: | Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina |
Sport: | Modern pentathlon |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jorge Cáceres (14 April 1917 - 3 December 1975) was an Argentine modern pentathlete and Argentine army general. His brother,, was the Minister of Defense under the presidencies of Roberto Marcelo Levingston and Alejandro Agustín Lanusse.[1]
Cáceres was born in 1917 in Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He entered Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1925, and graduated as a second lieutenant. He competed in the modern pentathlon event at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and placed 34th individually and 8th as a team.[2]
From 1970–1971, Cáceres served as the chief of the Argentine Federal Police. He retired from the military in September 1972, and was honored by Chile and Paraguay.[3]
Cáceres was assassinated along with his wife by the left-wing guerilla group Monteneros on 3 December 1975 in Paraná, a few months before the beginning of the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla. The couple was survived by a son.[4]