Decoration of Argentina
| Order of the Liberator General San Martin Orden del Libertador General San Martín | |
|---|---|
Awarded by  Argentina | |
| Type | Order |
| Established | August 17, 1943 |
| Status | Currently awarded |
| Grades | Collar Grand Cross Grand Officer Commander Officer Member |
| Precedence | |
| Next (lower) | Order of May |
 Ribbon bar of the order | |
The Order of the Liberator General San Martín (Spanish: Orden del Libertador General San Martín) is the highest decoration in Argentina. It is awarded to foreign politicians or military, deemed worthy of the highest recognition from Argentina. It is granted by the sitting President of Argentina.
History
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It owes its name to General José de San Martín, called Father of the Nation and Liberator. The original design was made by the Argentine engineer and sculptor Ángel Eusebio Ibarra García. It was created by Decree No. 5,000 of August 17, 1943; amended by Law No. 13. 202 of May 21, 1948; which in turn was repealed by Decree Law No. 16.628 of December 17, 1957, which re-creates the Order. The modifications introduced were only in the form. The regulations still in force were approved by Decree No. 16,643 of December 18, 1967.
Grades
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The Grades are:
Collar (Spanish: Collar)- Grand Cross (Spanish: Gran Cruz)
Grand Officer (Spanish: Gran Oficial)
Commander (Spanish: Comendador)
Officer (Spanish: Oficial)
Knight (Spanish: Caballero)
Notable recipients
Main article: List of recipients of the Order of the Liberator General San Martín| Date | Recipient | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| 8 June 1947 |  Spain – Caudillo Francisco Franco (1936–1975)
|
Collar |
| 16 August 1947 |  Brazil – President Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1946–1951)
|
Collar |
| 20 December 1948 |  Chile – Former president Arturo Alessandri (1920–1925; 1932-1938)
|
Grand Cross |
| 1950 |  Peru – President Manuel Arturo Odría (1948–1950; 1950-1956)
|
Collar |
| 12 May 1950 |  United States – General Dwight Eisenhower (1953–1961)
|
Grand Cross |
| 4 April 1951 |  Netherlands – Prince Bernhard (1948–1980)
|
Grand Cross |
| 18 July 1952 | Argentina – First Lady Eva Duarte de Perón (1946–1952)
|
Extraordinary |
| 19 February 1953 | Chile – President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1927–1931; 1952–1958)
|
Collar |
| 15 August 1954 |  Paraguay – President Alfredo Stroessner (1954–1989)
|
Collar |
| 2 February 1959 |  Italy – Prime Minister Antonio Segni (1955–1957; 1959–1960)
|
Grand Cross |
| 1960 |  Belgium – King Baudouin (1951–1993)
|
Collar |
| 8 May 1960 |  France – President Charles De Gaulle (1959–1969)
|
Collar |
| June 1960 |  Germany – Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1949–1963)
|
Grand Cross |
| 1 July 1960 | Netherlands – Queen Juliana (1948–1980)
|
Collar |
| 4 July 1960 |  United Kingdom – Queen Elizabeth II (1952–2022)
|
Collar |
| October 1960 |  Taiwan – President Chiang Kai-shek (1950–1975)
|
Collar |
| 9 April 1961 | Italy – President Giovanni Gronchi (1955–1962)
|
Collar |
| 8 July 1961 |  Bolivia – President Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1952–1956; 1960–1964; 1985–1989)
|
Collar |
| 8 December 1961 |  Thailand – King Bhumibol Adulyadej (1946–2016)
|
Collar |
| Thailand – Queen Sirikit (1950–2016)
|
Grand Cross | |
| Thailand – Prime Minister Sarit Thanarat (1959–1963)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 22 March 1962 | United Kingdom – Prince Philip (1952–2021)
|
Grand Cross |
| 10 May 1965 |  Iran – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941–1979)
|
Collar |
| Iran – Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi (1961–1979)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 15 September 1965 | Italy – President Giuseppe Saragat (1964–1971)
|
Collar |
| 29 October 1965 | Chile – President Eduardo Frei Montalva (1964–1970)
|
Collar |
| 1966 |  Cambodia – King Norodom Sihanouk (1941–1970, 1993-2004)
|
Collar |
| 25 March 1966 |  Denmark – Princess Margrethe (1940–1972; Queen: 1972–incumbent)
|
Grand Cross |
| 18 September 1967 |  Norway – King Olav V (1957–1991)
|
Collar |
| 1970 |  Ethiopia – Emperor Haile Selassie (1930–1974)
|
Collar |
| 18 April 1971 |  Costa Rica – President José Figueres Ferrer (1948–1949; 1953–1958; 1970–1974)
|
Collar |
| 13 October 1971 | Peru – President Juan Velasco Alvaro (1968–1975)
|
Collar |
| 1972 |  South Korea – President Park Chung-hee (1962-1979)
|
Collar |
 Indonesia – President Suharto (1968-1998)
|
Collar | |
| Indonesia – First Lady Siti Hartinah (1968-1998)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 16 June 1973 | Spain – President Luis Carrero Blanco (1973)
|
Grand Cross |
| 5 March 1974 |  Romania – President Nicolae Ceausescu (1967–1989)
|
Collar |
| Romania – First Lady Elena Ceausescu (1974–1989)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 1976 | Chile – President Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990)
|
Grand Cross |
| 4 March 1978 | Peru – President Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1975–1980)
|
Collar |
| 1 December 1978 | Spain – King Juan Carlos I (1975–2014)
|
Collar |
| Spain – Queen Sofía (1975–2014)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 8 October 1979 |  Japan – Emperor Hirohito (1926–1989)
|
Collar |
| 7 June 1985 | Peru – President Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1963–1968; 1980–1985)
|
Collar |
| 17 July 1986 |  Philippines – President Corazon Aquino (1986–1992)
|
Collar |
| 19 July 1986 |  Saudi Arabia – King Fahd (1982–2005)
|
Collar |
| 28 July 1986 | Brazil – President José Sarney (1985–1990)
|
Collar |
| 5 July 1990 | Brazil – President Fernando Collor de Mello (1990–1992)
|
Collar |
| 27 August 1990 | Chile – President Patricio Aylwin (1990–1994)
|
Collar |
| 1991 |  Malaysia – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad (1981–2003, 2018-2020)
|
Grand Cross |
| 1992 |  Morocco – King Hassan II (1961–1999)
|
Collar |
 Jordan – King Hussein (1952–1999)
|
Collar | |
| 11 May 1992 |  Egypt – President Hosni Moubarak (1981–2011)
|
Collar |
| 27 March 1994 | Spain – Infanta Elena (1963–1995)
|
Grand Cross |
| Spain – Infanta Cristina (1965–1997)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 6 May 1994 | Belgium – Prince Philippe (1993–2013)
|
Grand Cross |
| 1 December 1994 |  Croatia – President Franjo Tuđman (1990–1999)
|
Collar |
| 21 February 1995 |  Poland – President Lech Wałęsa (1990–1995)
|
Collar |
| 24 February 1995 |  South Africa – President Nelson Mandela (1994–1999)
|
Collar |
| 31 May 1995 |  Austria – President Thomas Klestil (1992–2004)
|
Collar |
| 14 March 1996 |  Lithuania – President Algirdas Brazauskas (1992–1998)
|
Collar |
| 8 April 1996 | Brazil – President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995–2002)
|
Collar |
| 16 July 1996 |  Laos – President Nouhak Phoumsavanh (1992–1998)
|
Collar |
| 27 September 1996 |  Czech Republic – President Vaclav Havel (1993–2003)
|
Collar |
| 12 November 1996 |  Mexico – President Ernesto Zedillo (1994–2000)
|
Collar |
| 3 March 1997 |  Finland – President Martti Ahtisaari (1994–2000)
|
Collar |
| 7 April 1997 |  Hungary – President Árpád Göncz (1990–2000)
|
Collar |
| 9 April 1997 | Thailand – Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh (1996–1997)
|
Grand Cross |
| 21 April 1997 | Spain – President José María Aznar (1996–2004)
|
Grand Cross |
| 28 April 1997 |  Haiti – President René Préval (1996–2001; 2006-2011)
|
Collar |
| 26 May 1998 |  Sweden – King Carl XVI Gustav (1973–incumbent)
|
Collar |
| Sweden – Queen Silvia (1976–incumbent)
|
Grand Cross | |
| Sweden – Princess Lilian (1976–2013)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 16 July 1998 |  United Nations – Secretary-General Kofi Annan (1997–2006)
|
Grand Cross |
| 10 August 1998 |  Nicaragua – President Arnoldo Alemán (1997–2002)
|
Collar |
| 29 September 1998 | Japan – Prince Akishino (1990–Incumbent)
|
Grand Cross |
| 2 December 1998 | Japan – Emperor Akihito (1989–2019)
|
Collar |
| Japan – Empress Michiko (1989–2019)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 20 September 1999 | Philippines – President Joseph Estrada (1998–2001)
|
Collar |
| 15 May 2000 | Paraguay – President Luis González Macchi (1999–2003)
|
Collar |
| 18 May 2000 | Chile – President Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006)
|
Collar |
| 25 September 2000 | Saudi Arabia – Prince Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud (1982–2005)
|
Grand Cross |
| 12 October 2000 |  Colombia – President Andrés Pastrana Arango (1998–2002)
|
Collar |
| 14 March 2001 | Italy – President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (1999–2006)
|
Collar |
| 21 August 2001 |  Dominican Republic – President Hipólito Mejía (2000–2004)
|
Collar |
| 15 November 2001 |  Portugal – President Jorge Sampaio (1996–2006)
|
Collar |
| 7 April 2003 |  Sovereign Order of Malta – Prince and Grand Master Fra' Andrew Bertie (1988–2008)
|
Grand Cross |
| 29 April 2003 |  Uruguay – President Jorge Batlle (2000–2005)
|
Collar |
| 7 December 2004 | Morocco – King Mohammed VI (1999–incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 21 April 2008 |  Ecuador – President Rafael Correa (2007–2017)
|
Collar |
| 24 November 2008 | Mexico – President Felipe Calderón (2006–2012)
|
Collar |
| 9 February 2009 | Spain – Princess Letizia (2004–2014)
|
Grand Cross |
| 16 January 2011 |  Kuwait – Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (2006–2020)
|
Collar |
| Kuwait – Prince Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (2006–2020)
|
Grand Cross | |
| 28 November 2012 | Peru – President Ollanta Humala (2011–2016)
|
Collar |
| 8 May 2013 |  Venezuela – President Nicolás Maduro (2013–Incumbent) / Revoked by President Mauricio Macri.
|
Collar |
| 2016 | Japan – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2006–2007, 2012–2020)
|
Grand Cross |
| 25 February 2016 | France – President François Hollande (2012–2017)
|
Collar |
| 29 July 2016 | Mexico – President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012–2018)
|
Collar |
| 8 August 2016 | United Nations – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (2007–2016)
|
Grand Cross |
| 9 August 2016 |  Australia – Governor-General Peter Cosgrove (2014–2019)
|
Collar |
| 22 February 2017 | Spain – King Felipe VI (2014–Incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 27 March 2017 | Netherlands – King Willem-Alexander (2013–incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 13 November 2017 | United States – Former president Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
|
Grand Cross |
| 8 May 2017 | Italy – President Sergio Mattarella (2015–Incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 6 March 2018 | Norway – King Harald V (1991–incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 2 December 2018 |  China – President Xi Jinping (2013–Incumbent)
|
Collar |
| 25 January 2021 | Uruguay – Former president José Mujica (2010–2015)
|
Collar |
References
- "En qué consiste la Orden del Libertador San Martín que le retiraron a Maduro" [What is the Order of the Liberator General San Martín that was revoked from Maduro]. La Nación (in Spanish). 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 June 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Decreto n.° 2904/76. Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina. 6 December 1976. Archived from the original on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
- "Recibimiento del Presidente Carlos Menem en Palacio de la Moneda : vídeo - Archivo Presidencial Patricio Aylwin Azócar 1990-1994". archivospublicos.uahurtado.cl. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- "MAHATHIR". Ray Azrul. Scribd. 18 February 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- "Decreto 772 / 1995". argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). Government of Argentina.
- ประกาศสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี เรื่อง พระราชทานพระบรมราชานุญาตให้ประดับเครื่องราชอิสริยาภรณ์ต่างประเทศ เล่ม 114 ตอนที่ 7 ข ราชกิจจานุเบกษา 9 เมษายน 2540
- Limited, Alamy. "El presidente argentino Carlos Menem (R) conversa con el Secretario General de las Naciones Unidas Kofi Annan momentos después de otorgarle el más alto honor de Argentina, la Orden del Libertador General San Martín, en reconocimiento al trabajo de Annan en temas mundiales de derechos humanos el 16 de julio, en el palacio de gobierno de la Casa Rosada. Annan está en Argentina como parte de una gira sudamericana. RR/ELD/AA Fotografía de stock". Alamy (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 November 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - Limited, Alamy. "El presidente argentino Carlos Menem (R) decora al presidente filipino Joseph Estrada con la Orden del Libertador General San Martín, durante una ceremonia en la Casa Rosada Presidencial el 20 de septiembre. Estrada, que está en visita oficial a Argentina, firmará acuerdos bilaterales con su contraparte Argentina para mejorar la relación entre ambos países. EM/ZDC Fotografía de stock". Alamy (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 November 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - Limited, Alamy. "El presidente paraguayo, Luis González Macchi (R), lleva la medalla Argentina San Martín mientras que su homólogo argentino Fernando de la Rua lleva la medalla paraguaya Mariscal Francisco López, durante una ceremonia en el palacio presidencial, mayo de 15. Los líderes se condecoraron entre sí durante una visita estatal de la Rua. RR/TB Fotografía de stock". Alamy (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2020.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - "El Gobierno le retira a Maduro la Orden del Libertador San Martín". www.gacetamercantil.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- "Palabras del presidente Mauricio Macri y del primer ministro de Japón, Shinzo Abe, en el almuerzo ofrecido en honor del mandatario japonés" (in Spanish). Casa Rosada | Government of Argentina. 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- de 2019, 2 de Mayo. "El Gobierno condecoró a Xi Jinping con la Orden del Libertador San Martín". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 14 October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - "Uruguay's Jose Pepe Mujica bestowed with the highest honor of Argentina". MercoPress. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
External links
- (in Spanish) History of San Martín
- (in Spanish) Articles on San Martin on newspaper Clarín
- (in Spanish) Sanmartinian National Institute
- (in Spanish) Foreign Relations Ministry of Argentina