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Sofía Álvarez Vignoli
Sofía Álvarez Vignoli (10 August 1899 – 12 May 1986) was a Uruguayan jurist and briefly First Lady of Uruguay, who was active in the struggle to achieve Women's Suffrage. Background She met her future husband Dr. Alberto Demicheli when they were both law students in Montevideo. On completion of the course, they married and subsequently had two children Julio Alberto (1938–1975) and María Adelina Demicheli Alvarez. She was active in campaigning for women's suffrage in Uruguay, which was achieved in 1932 (although women had already participated in some local elections in Uruguay). She was the main force behind the incorporation of Children's Rights into Uruguayan Law and wrote a book on Women's Civil Rights in 1946. Her husband Dr. Alberto Demicheli served as interior minister in the 1930s and was President of Uruguay as an interim measure in 1976. Diplomatic missions Her diplomatic activity occurred mainly under President Gabriel Terra (1933–1938). In the election ...
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Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . Montevideo is situated on the southern coast of the country, on the northeastern bank of the Río de la Plata. The city was established in 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the La Plata Basin, platine region. It was also under brief British invasions of the Río de la Plata, British rule in 1807, but eventually the city was retaken by Spanish criollos who defeated the British invasions of the River Plate. Montevideo is the seat of the administrative headquarters of Mercosur and ALADI, Latin America's leading trade blocs, a position that entailed comparisons to the role of Brussels in Europe. The 2019 Mercer's report on qual ...
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Julia Arévalo De Roche
Julia Arévalo de Roche (1 July 1898 – 18 August 1985) was a Uruguayan politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to General Assembly, serving in the Chamber of Representatives from 1943 to 1947 and then the Senate from 1947 to 1951. Biography Arévalo was born in Barriga Negra in Lavalleja Department in 1898. Her family moved to Montevideo when she was nine years old, and at the age of ten she began working in a match factory. She later worked in a cigarette factory. She joined the Socialist Party at the age of 15, and founded the Socialist Women's Group aged 16.Herstory: 10 Uruguayan Women Who Changed the Course of History
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1899 Births
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against ...
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Colorado Party (Uruguay) Politicians
Colorado Party (Spanish: ''Partido Colorado'', colored referring to red) can refer to two South American political parties: * Colorado Party (Paraguay) * Colorado Party (Uruguay) The Colorado Party ( es, Partido Colorado, lit=Red Party) is a liberal political party in Uruguay. Ideology The party seeks to unite moderate and liberal groups, although its members have had a diverse set of ideologies since its foundat ... See also * Red Party (other) {{disambiguation, political ...
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Members Of The Senate Of Uruguay
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Uruguayan Women Lawyers
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 the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century b ...
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First Ladies Of Uruguay
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List Of Political Families
This is an incomplete list of prominent political families. Monarchical dynasties are not included, unless certain descendants have played political roles in a republican structure (e.g. Arslan family of Lebanon and Cakobau family of Fiji). Albania The Hoxha family *Hysen Hoxha (Albanian independence leader; uncle of Enver Hoxha) *Enver Hoxha (First Secretary of the Albanian Labour Party, 1944–1985) *Nexhmije Hoxha (member of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labour Party; wife of Enver Hoxha) Peristeri family *Manush Myftiu ( Chairman of the Assembly of the Republic) *Pilo Peristeri (member of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labour Party) The Nano family (father-son) *Thanas Nano (government broadcaster under Hoxha) **Fatos Nano (Prime Minister of Albania) The Pashko family (spouses) *Josif Pashko (member of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labour Party) * Eleni Terezi (member of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labour Party) The Shehu family *Mehmet ...
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Magdalena Antonelli Moreno
Magdalena Antonelli Moreno (9 May 1877 – 1955) was a Uruguayan politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to General Assembly A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company. Specific examples of general assembly include: Churches * General Assembly (presbyterian church), the highest court of presby ..., serving in the Chamber of Representatives from 1943 to 1947. Biography Antonelli was born in San Carlos in 1877. She became head of the Women's Committee for Peace through Democracy of Uruguay. In the 1942 general elections she was placed eleventh on the Colorado Party list for Montevideo, and was elected to the Chamber of Representatives as the party won 13 seats,
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Isabel Pinto De Vidal
Isabel Pinto de Vidal (Montevideo, December 13, 1885 1969) was a Uruguayan feminist lawyer and politician, and a member of the Colorado Party. Pinto de Vidal was a founding member of the National Women's Council of Uruguay''(Consejo Nacional de Mujeres del Uruguay,'' CONAMU''),'' a branch of the International Council of Women in Uruguay. Her activism alongside the works of feminists such as Paulina Luisi and Francisca Beretervide is credited for achieving women's rights in Uruguay. After the women's suffrage in Uruguay, the Batllist sector of the Colorado Party, in which Pinto de Vidal was active, entered the electoral campaign of 1942. For the first time in Uruguayan history, women were elected to parliament, Sofía Álvarez Vignoli and Pinto de Vidal were the first senators. In addition, Pinto de Vidal was the first woman to preside over the General Assembly. As one of the nine women to be named delegates and the only female delegate from Uruguay to the United Nations Confere ...
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