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List Of Uruguayan Journalists
The following is a list of notable Uruguayan journalists: A–D *Hugo Alfaro * Homero Alsina Thevenet *Danilo Arbilla *Lucho Avilés *César Batlle Pacheco *Rafael Batlle Pacheco *Jorge Batlle Ibáñez *José Batlle y Ordóñez *Luis Batlle Berres *Salvador Bécquer Puig *Washington Beltrán Mullin *Virginia Bolten *Natalio Félix Botana * Emiliano Cotelo *Isidoro de María *Ramón Díaz *César di Candia * Carlos María Domínguez F–L *Pedro Figari *Manuel Flores Mora *Eduardo Galeano *Jorge Gestoso * Julio César Grauert *Ernesto Herrera *Luis Alberto de Herrera *Luis Alberto Lacalle M–Q *Carlos Maggi * Walter Martínez *Luis Melián Lafinur * Eudoro Melo * Alejandro Michelena *Zelmar Michelini * Víctor Hugo Morales *Benito Nardone * María Inés Obaldía *Jorge Pacheco Areco * Isabel Pisano *Carlos Quijano R–Z * Carlos María Ramírez *Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta * Blanca Rodríguez * Renán Rodríguez * Rómulo Rossi * Antonio Rubio Pérez *Florencio Sánchez * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Alfaro
Hugo Alfaro (Tala, Uruguay, 20 February 1917 – Montevideo, 16 March 1996) was a Uruguayan journalist, intellectual and film critic. In his youth he contributed to the famous weekly newspaper ''Marcha''. Later, in 1985, he was the main founder of the newspaper '' Brecha''. Works * ''Mi mundo tal cual es'' (Ed. Marcha. 1966) * ''Ver para creer'' * ''Reportajes a la realidad'' * ''Navegar es necesario. Quijano y el semanario Marcha'' (Ediciones de la Banda Oriental. 1984) * ''Mario Benedetti Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being publish ...: detrás de un vidrio claro'' (Trilce. 1986) * ''Pruebas de imprenta'' * ''Por la vereda del sol'' (Ed. de Brecha. 1994) References External links * 1917 births 1996 deaths People from Canelones Department Uruguayan male writers Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos María Domínguez
Carlos María Domínguez (born 23 April 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer and journalist who has lived in Montevideo since 1989. Biography Domínguez began his career in the Argentine magazine, ''Crisis''. Afterwards, he specialized in literary criticism, joining the Uruguayan weeklies '' Brecha'', '' Búsqueda'', and the cultural supplement of ''EL PAIS''. Work Domínguez has written around 20 books, including novels, short stories, travel chronicles, biographies, and plays. *''Pozo de Vargas'' (novel), Emecé, Buenos Aires, 1985. *''Bicicletas negras'' (novel), Arca, Montevideo, 1990. *''Construcción de la noche. La vida de Juan Carlos Onetti'' (biography), Planeta, Buenos Aires, 1993. *''La mujer hablada'' (novel), Cal y Canto, Montevideo, 1995. *''El bastardo. La vida de Roberto de las Carreras y su madre Clara'' (biografía), Cal y Canto, Montevideo, 1997. *''La confesión de Johnny'' (story), Ediciones de la Banda Oriental, Montevideo, 1998. *''El compás de oro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Michelena
Alejandro Michelena (born 27 September 1963) is a Uruguayan modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October .... References External links * 1963 births Living people Uruguayan male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Uruguay Modern pentathletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics {{Uruguay-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eudoro Melo
Eudoro Melo (1889–1975) was an Uruguayan poet, politician, and journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism .... Works Literary production *Soul Hits ( 1926 ) *Elite which Prose ( 1930 ) *Nomad ( 1931 ) *Prometheus ( 1965 ) Hymns *Ode To Coast (music by Bernardo Martinez Irigaray . (1930) *Ode to the Red Cross (music by Vincent Ascone) *Hymn to the National Flag *Hymn to the Tree (music by Victor Gamba) *Ode to the Industrial School (music by Alfredo Zipitria Frioni) *Ode to La Paz (music by Victor Gamba) References 1889 births 1975 deaths People from Canelones, Uruguay Uruguayan people of Portuguese descent 20th-century Uruguayan poets Uruguayan male poets Uruguayan politicians Uruguayan journalists 20th-century Uruguayan male writers 20th-century j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Melián Lafinur
Luis Melián Lafinur (10 January 1850 – 27 February 1939) was a Uruguayan jurist, essayist, professor and politician. He was the son of Bernardo Melián and Florencia Lafinur. His son was the Argentine poet Álvaro Melián Lafinur. Biography He earned a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1870. He took up arms at least twice, once in 1886 as part of the ultimately unsuccessful Revolution of Quebracho, and again in 1904 in support of the government as a battalion commander in the National Guard during the unsuccessful revolution led by Aparicio Saravia. He represented Uruguay at the 1906 Pan-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro, and was simultaneously appointed Minister to the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. He was also editor of two newspapers, ''El Plata'' and ''La Razón''. From 1908 to 1909, he was the president of the Atheneum of Montevideo. He was an uncle of the famous Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, and is referenced in Borges' story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Martínez (journalist)
Walter Nelson Martínez Martínez (born 1941) is a Venezuelan award-winning journalist, originally from Uruguay. Martínez's career spans over three decades in radio, television and the Newspaper, press. He is best known for his work in international relations, and also for using a Eyepatch, patch in his right eye, due to a home plumbing accident. Career Martínez was a war correspondent during the 1980s and 1990s. He worked for the Venezuelan state television channel, Venezolana de Televisión, until 2005, where he hosted and produced his one-hour-long program ''Dossier'' every night at ten. Additionally, he hosted a radio version of that program on Radio Nacional de Venezuela, also state-owned. ''Dossier'' returned to the air on 15 September 2008 when the program was given the same time slot on Venezolana de Televisión live on weekdays at night. The program is broadcast a few hours later on TeleSUR. Martínez is famous for thescatchphrase "''nuestra querida, contaminada y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Maggi
Carlos Maggi (5 August 1922, Montevideo, Uruguay – 15 May 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Uruguayan lawyer, playwright, journalist and writer. Among his acquaintances he was known as "the Kid" ( es, el Pibe). He was one of the last surviving members of the ''Generation of 45'', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Juan Carlos Onetti, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, , , Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, , Mario Benedetti, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, , among others. Works * ''Il Duce'' (2013), opera libretto, with Mauricio Rosencof, music by Federico García Vigil * ''1611-2011 Mutaciones y aggiornamientos en la economía y cultura del Uruguay'' (2011) * ''Artigas revelado'' (2009), with Leonardo Borges * ''La nueva historia de Artigas'' (2005), 8 volumes * ''El fin de la discusión'' (2002) * ''La guerra de Baltar'' (2001) * ''Artigas y el lejano norte'' (1999) * ''Esperando a R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Alberto Lacalle
Luis Alberto Lacalle de Herrera, Order of St Michael and St George, GCMG (; ''Lacalle'' locally or ; born 13 July 1941), is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer who served as President of Uruguay from 1990 to 1995. Background His mother, María Hortensia de Herrera de Lacalle, was the daughter of the National Party (Uruguay), White political leader Luis Alberto de Herrera, after whom Lacalle was named. Luis Alberto Lacalle joined the National Party (Uruguay), National Party at the age of 17. In 1961 he started working as a journalist for ''Clarín (Argentine newspaper), Clarín'' and he graduated from the University of the Republic, Uruguay, University of the Republic's law school in 1964. In 1971, he was elected Deputy (legislator), deputy for Montevideo and kept his seat until the 1973 Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay, coup, when President Juan María Bordaberry dissolved parliament. Assassination attempt In August 1978 Lacalle was sent three bottles of wine tainted with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Alberto De Herrera
Luis Alberto de Herrera (Montevideo, 22 July 1873 – 8 April 1959) was a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. Political and diplomatic roles A national leader of great importance during the first half of the 20th century, he led the National Party through the most decisive instances along five decades. His own political movement is known as Herrerismo. From 1902 to 1904, he was Uruguayan Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. From 1925 to 1927 he served as President of the National Council of Administration, or Prime Minister, during the presidency of José Serrato. In 1933, he took part at the Convention on Rights and Duties of States adopted by the Seventh International Conference of American States. Particularly after 1933, he was tactically close to his nominal Colorado Party opponent, President Gabriel Terra. :es:Luis Alberto de Herrera#Participación en el golpe de Estado de Gabriel Terra He stood for the presidency several times without su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Herrera (playwright)
Ernesto Herrera (1889–1917) was a Uruguayan playwright, short story writer and journalist. Background Herrera was a dyed in the wool anarchist and a prolific writer of short stories and plays, featuring large on the Uruguayan literary scene from his late teens until his premature death at the age of twenty-seven. His first publication, ''Su Majestad el Hambre: Cuentos Brutales'', was a collection short stories linked around the central themes of poverty and hunger, laying bare the author’s anger at the injustice and brutality he witnessed in contemporary Uruguayan society, and depicting a world in which desperation and violence go hand in hand.''Brutal Tales'' by Ernesto Herrera, translated by Kathryn Phillips-Miles & Simon Deefholts, 2022. ISBN 978-1-913693-12-1 His most famous work for the stage was ''El león ciego (The Blind Lion)'', published in 1911. He travelled to Europe on several occasions, mainly visiting Spain, Portugal and France. Principal works Short stories ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio César Grauert
Julio César Grauert (1902–1933) was a Uruguayan journalist and political figure. Background He was a lawyer by profession. His brother Héctor Grauert (1907–1991) was active in politics. Public office A member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party, he was elected a Deputy in 1929. Death He died in a confrontation with the security forces in 1933, during the Presidency of Gabriel Terra.'Julio César Grauert' Wikipedia (in Spanish), :es:Julio César Grauert, See also *Politics of Uruguay The politics of Uruguay abide by a presidential representative democratic republic, under which the President of Uruguay is both the head of state and the head of government, as well as a multiform party system. The president exercises executiv ... * List of political families#Uruguay References People from Montevideo Uruguayan people of German descent 1902 births 1933 deaths Uruguayan journalists Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians Members of the Chamber of Representatives of U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Gestoso
Jorge Gestoso (born 20 March 1951) is a Uruguayan journalist who was born in Montevideo. For 16 years, he was the Principal Anchor and symbol of ''CNN en Español'', as well as Senior Washington Correspondent. ''CNN en Español'' is a television network that reaches all the Americas and the Caribbean and is one of the networks of CNN, the Cable News Network, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, North America. In June 2004, Gestoso founded his own production company of television content, called GTN (Gestoso Television News), holding the title of President, with headquarters in Washington, DC, where he also lives. Gestoso hosts the program ''JGI "Jorge Gestoso Investiga"'' that investigates the most relevant subjects of our times and airs on V-me, with headquarters in New York, on the Spanish Network in association with Public Television, reaching 40 cities and 80% of the Hispanic Market according to Nielsen. Starting in 2004, from GTN Gestoso has produced and hosted the prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
