Alirio Ugarte Pelayo (
Parroquia Anzoátegui
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, 21 January 1923 – 19 May 1966), was a
Venezuelan politician, journalist, diplomat and lawyer.
Early life and education
He gained a doctorate in political science from the
Central University of Venezuela in 1946.
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UGARTE PELAYO, Alirio. (Abogado, periodista y poeta)
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Career
He was appointed
Governor of Monagas state (1949–1951) under the
military junta set up after the
1948 Venezuelan coup d'état
The 1948 Venezuelan coup d'état took place on 24 November 1948, when Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez overthrew the elected president, Rómulo Gallegos, who had been elected in the 1947 Venezuelan g ...
. After the restoration of democracy in 1958, he joined the
Democratic Republican Union (URD).
He was Ambassador to Mexico (1959–1962), and was elected to the
Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies () was the lower house of Venezuela's legislative under its 1961 constitution; the Venezuelan Senate was the upper house. Under the 1999 constitution, the bicameral system was replaced by the unicameral National Assembly ...
in the
1963 elections, becoming President of the Chamber.
He was a member of the Supreme Electoral Council from 1959 to 1964.
Ugarte Pelayo became Secretary General of the URD in 1965,
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Ugarte Pelayo muere de un disparo
Retrieved 3 June 2012 and appeared likely to gain the URD presidential nomination for the 1968 election. In response URD leader
Jóvito Villalba
Jóvito Villalba Gutiérrez (March 23, 1908 – July 8, 1989), was a Venezuelan lawyer and politician, member of the Generation of 1928, founder of the party URD (''Democratic Republican Union'') and signer of the Puntofijo Pact.
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, who wanted to be re-nominated, had Ugarte Pelayo suspended from the URD
[Ewell, Judith (1984), ''Venezuela: a century of change'', ]Stanford University Press
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, p166 in April 1966. The vote of the URD National Directorate fell 16 to 12, and "it soon became evident that if Ugarte left the party over his suspension, he would take with him the twelve members of the National Directorate who had backed him against Villalba, eight congressmen, and at least ten state organizations."
[Powell, John Duncan (1971), ''Political Mobilization of the Venezuelan Peasant'', Harvard University Press. p192] Ugarte Pelayo announced the creation of a new party, Movimiento Demócrata Independiente, and was found dead in his home on 19 May by reporters he had invited for a press conference,
an apparent suicide.
A street in
Maturín, ''Avenida Alirio Ugarte Pelayo'', is named for him.
Books
* ''Destino democrático de Venezuela'' (1960), Editorial América Nueva.
See also
*
List of Venezuelans
References
1923 births
1966 deaths
Governors of Monagas
Venezuelan journalists
Ambassadors of Venezuela to Mexico
Presidents of the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies
Democratic Republican Union politicians
Central University of Venezuela alumni
20th-century Venezuelan lawyers
Suicides by firearm in Venezuela
20th-century journalists
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