Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral (20 August 1944 – 25 August 2021) was an Argentine

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(UCR) politician. He was governor of

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from 2003 to 2011, heading the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca.

Life

Eduardo Brizuela was born in

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and studied

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at the

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, from which he graduated in 1972. He became an academic in the field of topography and was named a member of the Provincial Agronomists Council, later heading the Bureau of Surveyors of Catamarca Province and of its capital. In 1986 he became rector of the Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, serving until 1991.

Politics

Brizuela was elected Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in 1991. He was re-elected in 1995, and again in 1999. He served as vice-president of the Argentine Federation of Municipalities from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, he was elected to the

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representing his home province, serving until the gubernatorial election in 2003. Eduardo Brizuela became a "K Radical," a UCR supporter of

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, and endorsed Kirchner in the 2007 elections. He subsequently received the endorsement of

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's conservative Movement of the United Provinces, in his own, successful re-election bid for governor. Following his re-election, Brizuela (and most K Radicals) broke with

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as a result of the 2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector. Brizuela ran for a third term as governor in the

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, being defeated by Senator

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of the Kirchnerist

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by 83,711 votes over 76,627.

Death

On 25 August 2021, he died at the age of 77 due to bilateral pneumonia and a stroke that had kept him hospitalized for several days in a San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca hospital.

External links

Profile
Catamarca government

References

1944 births 2021 deaths People from Catamarca Province National University of Córdoba alumni Argentine agronomists Governors of Catamarca Province Members of the Argentine Senate for Catamarca Mayors of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca Radical Civic Union politicians Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Catamarca Deaths from pneumonia in Argentina {{Argentina-politician-stub