Carlos Sylvestre Begnis

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Carlos Sylvestre Begnis (30 August 1903 – 22 September 1980) was a medical doctor and politician, born in Alto Grande, a village near Bell Ville, province of Córdoba, Argentina. He was a rural physician and worked as a surgeon in hospitals of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe.

He entered politics through the Radical Civic Union. In 1958 he was elected Governor of Santa Fe. He became a part of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI), and then, in the 1970s, moved to the Justicialist Party (Peronism), and was elected governor again. The Hernandarias Subfluvial Tunnel, which joins Santa Fe and Entre Ríos under the Paraná River, was built during his administration, and then officially renamed after him and Entre Ríos governor Raúl Uranga.