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{{Short description|Argentine hydraulic engineer and politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name= Mario Barletta
| image name= Mario Barletta.jpg
| office = [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]]
| term_start = 10 December 2021
| constituency = [[Santa Fe Province|Santa Fe]]
| term_start1 = 10 December 2013
| term_end1 = 10 December 2017
| constituency1 = [[Santa Fe Province|Santa Fe]]
| office2 = [[Argentina–Uruguay relations|Ambassador of Argentina to Uruguay]]
| term_start2= 24 January 2018
| term_end2 = 10 December 2019
| predecessor2 = [[Guillermo Montenegro]]
| successor2 = [[Alberto Iribarne]]
| office3 = President of the National Committee of the [[Radical Civic Union]]
| term_start3 = 16 December 2011
| term_end3 = 4 December 2015
| preceded3 = [[Ernesto Sanz]]
| succeeded3 =[[José Manuel Corral (politician)|José Manuel Corral]]
| office4 = Mayor of [[Santa Fe, Argentina]]
| term_start4 =  10 December 2007
| term_end4 = 10 December 2011
| predecessor4= Ezequiel Balbarrey
| successor4 = José Corral
| birth_date= {{birth date and age|1953|12|30}}
| birth_place= [[Santa Fe, Argentina]]
| death_date=
| death_place=
| spouse= 
| alma_mater=[[National University of the Littoral]]<br>[[Latin American Social Sciences Institute]]
| party= [[Radical Civic Union]]
| profession=Hydraulic engineer
| website=
}}
'''Mario Domingo Barletta''' (born 30 December 1953) is an Argentine hydraulic engineer and politician. He served as mayor of [[Santa Fe, Argentina]] from 2007 to 2011,<ref>Sin Mordaza Noticias, 29 December 2007. [http://www.sinmordaza.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46738 Asumió Mario Barletta al frente del DEM] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716080838/http://www.sinmordaza.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=46738 |date=2011-07-16 }}</ref><ref>Santa Fe City, official municipal website. [http://www.santafeciudad.gov.ar/media/files/discurso_intendente_barletta.pdf Mario Barletta's inaugural speech]</ref> and was elected President of the [[Radical Civic Union]] (UCR) in 2011. Since 2021, he has been a [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]].

==Biography==
===Academic career===
Barletta was born in Santa Fe. He enrolled at the [[National University of the Littoral]] (UNL) and graduated with a degree in [[Hydraulic Engineering]] in 1978. He later took postgraduate courses in the [[United States]] (at the universities of [[University of Illinois system|Illinois]] <!-- which one? --> and [[Columbia University|Columbia]]). He has a Master of Social Sciences from FLACSO (the [[Latin American Social Sciences Institute]]).

Barletta was a professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Hydrical Sciences, and guest professor in other universities. He worked in his field at the Centro Regional Litoral and in the water departments of the provincial governments of [[Entre Ríos Province|Entre Ríos]], Santa Fe, [[Chaco Province|Chaco]], [[Misiones Province|Misiones]] and [[Río Negro Province|Río Negro]].<ref>Diario Castellanos, 6 December 2001. [http://www.castellanos.com.ar/nuevo/textos.php?id=2489 Reeligieron a Barletta al frente de la UNL].</ref>

He directed the Department of General and Applied Hydrology of the UNL, and was the first [[Dean (education)|dean]] of his faculty. He served as Secretary of Scientific Investigation and Secretary General of UNL. On 22 February 2000 the University Assembly elected him [[Rector (academia)|rector]], in order to complete the term of Hugo Storero (who had resigned to become a [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]]). He presided the National Inter-University Council until October 2000, and was part of the Directorship of CONICET (the [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council]]), in representation of public and private universities.

He was reelected as rector of the UNL in November 2005, and served from March 2006 until December 2007, when he left to become mayor of Santa Fe.<ref>El Santafesino, 22 November 2005. [http://www.elsantafesino.com/cultura/2005/11/22/4055 Mario Barletta fue reelecto como rector de la UNL].</ref>

===Career in politics===
Barletta ran for the office of Mayor of Santa Fe City on the election of 2 September 2007, representing the [[Progressive, Civic and Social Front]] (the same coalition which took the [[Socialist Party (Argentina)|Socialist]] [[Hermes Binner]] to the governor's seat). He came first in the race (32.64% of the vote), with a slight difference of about 3,000 votes, ahead of the [[Justicialist Party|Justicialist]]/[[Front for Victory]] candidate Martín Balbarrey (the former mayor, running for reelection), and the independent Peronist candidate Oscar Martínez.<ref>Argentina Municipal, 29 December 2007. {{cite web|url=http://www.argentinamunicipal.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_Des=8763&id_seccion=62 |title=Mario Barletta es el nuevo intendente de Santa Fe |accessdate=2007-12-28 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304231923/http://www.argentinamunicipal.com.ar/despachos.asp?cod_Des=8763&id_seccion=62 |archivedate=March 4, 2012 }}</ref>

Among his first government measures, Barletta announced the start of a permanent internal [[audit]] of the municipality's finances, and declared a "hydrical emergency", to deal swiftly with the vulnerable state of the city facing large amounts of rainfall. Santa Fe City, located in low terrain besides two large rivers, suffered a large [[2003 Santa Fe flood|flood in 2003]], and another [[March 2007 floods in the Argentine littoral|serious flood during the autumn 2007 season]].

Days after completing his term as Mayor of Santa Fe, Barletta was elected President of the National Committee of the [[Radical Civic Union]] (UCR) in December 2011 as a consensus candidate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m24digital.com/en/2011/12/16/with-incidents-the-ucr-elected-mario-barletta-as-new-president/|title=With incidents, the UCR elected Mario Barletta as new president|publisher=M24 Digital|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120718074628/http://m24digital.com/en/2011/12/16/with-incidents-the-ucr-elected-mario-barletta-as-new-president/|archivedate=2012-07-18}}</ref>

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