 He was charged with involvement in the disappearance of a national deputy in 1976.The Juárez hegemony over Santiago del Estero has apparently ended.Nevertheless it was suggested that they helped the Radical Civic Union win the governorship of the Santiago del Estero Province for the first time in 2003, with Gerardo Zamora as the UCR candidate, and had also backed president Néstor Kirchner's bid for re-election in 2007.