Luis MarÃa Drago
Luis María Drago ( born May 6, 1859 in Buenos Aires, † June 9, 1921 ) was an Argentine lawyer and politician.
He was 1902-1903 as foreign minister of his native country and was later a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In 1907, he represented Argentina during the Second Hague Peace Conference. After the end of World War II, he was invited by the newly founded League of Nations to participate in the drafting of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice. However, he died a short time later.
Drago became famous mainly due to the developed by him and named after him Drago Doctrine, a ban on armed intervention of European states in the territory of American States for the collection of debt, which represented an evolution of the Monroe Doctrine of former U.S. President James Monroe.