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Portuguese Uruguayan
Portuguese Uruguayans are Uruguayans of full or partial Portuguese ancestry. The Portuguese arrived in Uruguay around the time of the Spanish colonial period. Many of them were sailors, conquistadors, clergy, and members of the military. Later Portuguese arrivals included pirates in conflict with Spanish leadership; Colonia del Sacramento, which eventually turned into a regional center of smuggling, is a notable example of those ages Another source of Portuguese immigration into Uruguay were Brazilians of Portuguese descent, who crossed the border into the country ever since it became independent. During the second half of the 19th century and part of the 20th, several additional Portuguese immigrants arrived; the last wave was during 1930–1965. The most recent figure is from the 2011 Uruguayan census, which revealed 367 people who declared Portugal as their country of birth while is estimated that there are at least some 2,985 Portuguese citizens residing in Uruguay as o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonia De Sacramento
Colonia del Sacramento (; pt, Colónia do Sacramento) is a city in southwestern Uruguay, by the Río de la Plata, facing Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is one of the oldest towns in Uruguay and capital of the Colonia Department. It has a population of around 27,000. Its historic quarter is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Modern Colonia del Sacramento produces textiles and has a free trade zone, in addition to a Institute of technology, polytechnic centre and various government buildings. History Following the Portuguese Restoration War, restoration of the Portuguese crown, Peter II of Portugal, King Peter II sought the resolution of the southern border of Brazil. :pt:Manuel_Lobo, Manuel Lobo with 5 ships containing about 400 soldiers, craftsmen, carpenters and stonecutters, and 18 guns, reached San Gabriel Island on 20 January 1680. On 28 January, they commenced establishing a post. José de Garro sent spies from Santo Domingo de Soriano on 22 February 1680, after receiving a negat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Amorim
Enrique Amorim (July 25, 1900 – July 28, 1960) was an Uruguayan novelist and writer, best known for his story ''Las quitanderas'' whose plot centers on rural prostitution; also known for his left-wing politics. Biography Enrique Amorim was born in Salto, Uruguay to parents who were wealthy cattle ranchers. His father was from a Portuguese background, his mother Basque. Amorim travelled extensively in Europe and Latin America, developing acquaintanceships and friendships with many of the leading literary figures of his time. He eventually had a house built in Salto, designed by Le Corbusier. In the 1920s Amorim wrote for the Argentine leftist magazine ''Los Pensadores'' and published with the press Claridad, both associated with the left-leaning Buenos Aires-based Boedo group. In 1947 Amorim officially joined the Communist Party of Uruguay. He was also responsible for the erection of a monument in Salto to commemorate Federico García Lorca, the poet and playwright killed by Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Caetano
Israel Adrián Caetano (born 1969 in Montevideo, Uruguay), known as Adrián Caetano, is an Uruguayan film director, producer and screenwriter. Biography He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times, he obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At age of sixteen, his family moved to Córdoba, Argentina. When he was older, he shot several short videos including ''Visite Carlos Paz,'' and ''Calafate''. In 1995, Caetano won a prize in a script contest he entered. The money won allowed him to film the short ''Down Hill'' (''Cuesta abajo''), his first work filmed in 35mm. '' Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes'' (1998, co-directed with Bruno Stagnaro) followed. The film was well received at the various film festivals where it screened. In 1996, Caetano won a Media Arts Fellowship, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City. Caetano also directs television commercial and programs. In 2005, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Amorín Batlle
José Gerardo Amorín Batlle (born 9 November 1954 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan lawyer and politician who has served as Minister of Education and Culture (2004–2005), representative (2005–2010) and senator (since 2010). Biography Amorín is a member of the Colorado Party and comes from a political family; his father, Julio Amorín Larrañagahimself a relative of Javier Barrios Amorínwas minister in Juan María Bordaberry's government and his mother, Susana Batlle, was a close relative of president Jorge Batlle Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez (; ''Batlle'' locally or ; 25 October 1927 – 24 October 2016) was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, and a member of the Colorado Party. He served as the President of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Jorge Batlle b .... References External links 1954 births People from Montevideo Uruguayan people of Portuguese descent Uruguayan people of Catalan descent University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni 20th-century Urugua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924) was an Uruguayan teacher and poet. She was the younger sister of philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira and a contemporary of Delmira Agustini and Julio Herrera y Reissig. She was born and lived in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. She held a Chair in Literature at the Women's University. She suffered from mental illness and lost her reason some years before her death in 1924. Her first volume of is entitled ''La isla de los canticos'' and consists of forty selected poems (and a single poem ''Unico poema'' added at her brother's insistence) which he published shortly after her death. A second volume, entitled ''La otra isla de los canticos'', with a prologue by Emilio Oribe and containing a number of poems taken from her unpublished manuscripts, appeared in 1959 shortly after her brother's death. The modern ''Poesías Completas'' contains 112 poems. Vaz Ferreira is regarded as a metaphysical poet who wrote emotive poems that speak of pass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Vaz Ferreira
Carlos Vaz Ferreira (October 15, 1872 – January 3, 1958) was a Uruguayan philosopher, lawyer, writer, and academic. Influenced by John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer, he is notable for introducing liberal, pluralistic political values and pragmatic philosophical concepts to South American society. Life Vaz Ferreira was born in Montevideo. His younger sister was the poet María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira. His first published work, in 1897, was "Curso expositivo de Psicología elemental" ("Lecture Course on Elemental Psychology"). The same year, he began lecturing in philosophy at the University of the Republic. His second work, published in 1898, was a book on formal logic. In 1903 he was licensed as an attorney. In 1905 he published "Ideas y Observaciones" ("Ideas and Observations"), a collection of both new and previously published works. The collection's length led the author to publish it in two separate volumes. Vaz Ferreira's most important works were published between 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amílcar Vasconcellos
Amílcar Vasconcellos ( Artigas, 22 September 1915 - Montevideo, 22 October. 1999) was a Uruguayan politician, lawyer, government minister and Senator. In 1967 he challenged Óscar Diego Gestido Óscar Diego Gestido Pose (Montevideo, Uruguay November 28, 1901 – Montevideo, December 6, 1967) was president of Uruguay in 1967. Biography Diego Gestido was from a military background, and served in the military for 36 years before reti ... to a duel. He was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1957 to 1958 and in 1967. References Uruguayan people of Portuguese descent People from Artigas Department University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni 20th-century Uruguayan lawyers Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians Ministers of Economics and Finance of Uruguay Ministers of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries of Uruguay National Council of Government (Uruguay) 1915 births 1999 deaths Candidates for President of Uruguay {{Uruguay-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olhinto María Simoes
Olhinto María Simoes (1901–1966) was a Uruguayan poet, journalist and cultural worker. He was born in Rivera on June 5, 1901 and died on October 9, 1966. Career María Simoes worked in the press from his youth, first as a printer and later as a journalist both in the local and national media. In 1922, at age 21, he founded the newspaper ''La Cachiporra''. Fundamentally he was a tireless worker for cultural activities in the belief that the culture of a people is not something that should only be transmitted, but something that is made and remade every day through creativity. He believed that strengthening the culture is the way to participate in the development of peoples. In 1930 his ''Canto a la ciudad de Rivera'' (Song to the city of Rivera) took first prize in the competition organized by the Departmental Council of the Municipal Government, being later declared Hymn of the City. As it relates to educational activities María Simoes participated on several school building c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villanueva Saravia
Villanueva Saravia Pinto (September 16, 1964 – August 12, 1998) was a Uruguayan politician of the National Party, who served as intendant of Cerro Largo Department from 1995 to 1998. Early life and education Saravia was born on September 16, 1964, in Melo, the son of rancher Diego Saravia Saravia and the teacher Luz del Carmen Pinto Giordano. Coming from a political family, he was the great-great-grandson of Aparicio Saravia, a prominent '' caudillo'' of the National Party, who died following the Battle of Masoller in 1904, and who had a strong following in Cerro Largo. After his parents divorced in 1967, he moved in with his maternal grandparents. When he was eleven years old, his mother committed suicide. He attended Primary School No. 3, Liceo No. 1 and the Liceo Militar in Minas. Political career Saravia began his political militancy for the National Party in his adolescence. In 1983, while he was studying law, he worked for the then intendant of Montevideo Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aparicio Saravia
Aparicio Saravia da Rosa (August 16, 1856 – September 10, 1904) was a Uruguayan politician and military leader. He was a member of the Uruguayan National Party and was a revolutionary leader against the Uruguayan government. Early life He was born in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, the fourth of thirteen children of Brazilians Francisco Saraiva and Pulpicia da Rosa (his surname was later Hispanicized to "Saravia"). He was raised and educated mostly in the countryside, but he also had some higher education. At his father's death, the Saravia brothers inherited a vast estate, Estancia El Cordobés, in the department of Cerro Largo, on the frontier with the Brazilian state Rio Grande do Sul. Since the borders between Brazil and Uruguay were not clearly delineated, the Saravia brothers had very close ties to Rio Grande do Sul and its revolutionary movements. Aparicio Saravia began his military activities at a very young age. He is believed to have participated in the Revolution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alceu Ribeiro
Alceu Ribeiro (13 December 1919, in Artigas Department – 22 November 2013, in Palma, Majorca) was a Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...an painter and sculptor.Obituary of Alceu Ribeiro References External links ** [...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] |
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