{"record":{"aliases":["Diego Felipe Medús","Diego Medús","Diego Medus"],"appointmentIds":["argentina-0be2f4541135ad"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":[],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/argentina-diego-felipe-medus-460d61c069/","countrySlug":"argentina","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/argentina-diego-felipe-medus-460d61c069/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Diego Felipe Medús served in the Argentine embassies in Paraguay and Peru during Felipe Ricardo Yofre’s assignments there in 1956–60. He later worked under Carlos Manuel Muñiz in Washington in 1971–73. The American diplomatic roster records him as minister-counsellor and chargé d’affaires in May 1973. By early 1976 he headed the foreign ministry’s North American department.","In a cable dated 16 February 1976, Ambassador Robert Hill reported on a conversation with Medús three days earlier, before the military coup. Hill said that Medús had been asked by a military planning group to study how a future government could avoid the human rights disputes Chile and Uruguay had encountered with Washington. According to Hill, Medús warned that executions would create problems; the officers replied that some would probably be required in their intended campaign against terrorism and wanted advice on limiting the resulting difficulties with the United States.","Medús continued to analyze the connection between human rights and American support after the coup. In an August 1976 foreign ministry report quoted in a later documentary study, he argued that an economic program compatible with American preferences could attract assistance, but that Washington was beginning to condition that assistance on Argentina’s human rights record."],"id":"argentina:argentina-diego-felipe-medus","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-460d61c06954d52e1152.html","name":"Diego Felipe Medus","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["career","roster"],["hill"],["economic"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-460d61c06954d52e1152.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"limited","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"d90169e4f797460e","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"2006-03-24","id":"career","locator":"Biographical passage introducing Diego Felipe Medús","publisher":"Ámbito, Juan Bautista Yofre","title":"Los últimos meses. Los últimos días. Las últimas horas.","type":"reference","url":"https://www.ambito.com/secciones-especiales/los-ultimos-meses-los-ultimos-dias-las-ultimas-horas-n3369938"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":null,"id":"roster","locator":"Entry of 31 May 1973","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","title":"Diplomatic Representation for the Argentine Republic","type":"primary-record","url":"https://2009-2017.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/91554.htm"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"1976-02-16","id":"hill","locator":"Document of 16 February 1976; transcribed first paragraph under Los Militares Se Dan por Enterados del Tema de Derechos Humanos","publisher":"U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires; National Security Archive","title":"Military Take Cognizance of Human Rights Issue: Buenos Aires 1042","type":"primary-record","url":"https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/index2.htm"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"2018-08-06","id":"economic","locator":"Page 4 and note 22","publisher":"Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL)","title":"Human Rights and Economic Policy Under the Argentine Military Dictatorship","type":"scholarship","url":"https://www.cadal.org/documents/Document154en.pdf"}],"topics":["human rights diplomacy","1976 Argentine coup","U.S. economic assistance"]},"schemaVersion":1}