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Luis María Drago
Luis
María
Drago
was an
Argentine politician
.
Born
into a
distinguished
Argentine
family
in
Buenos Aires
, Drago began his
career
as a
newspaper editor
. Later, he served as a
minister of foreign affairs
. At that time, when
the UK
,
Germany
, and
Italy
were
seeking
to collect the
public debt
of
Venezuela
by
force
, he wrote to
the Argentine
minister
in
Washington
setting
forth
his
doctrine
, commonly known as the
Drago Doctrine
.