Roberto Romero

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Roberto Romero (October 22, 1927, Salta - February 1992) was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and businessman.

Romero was a founder of the provincial El Tribuno newspaper. He was elected as Governor of Salta Province, serving from 1983-1987, and then stepped down to become a national deputy in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for Salta province. He stood for governor once again in 1991 but lost and retired that year from public life.

In February 1992, whilst on holiday with his family in Brazil, Romero was killed in an automobile accident. He is the father of the current Governor of Salta, Juan Carlos Romero.

In 2006 it came to light that the Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States had considered Romero the head of a major drugs cartel.