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Attorney General's Office Of Uruguay
The Attorney General's Office of Uruguay (; literally "General Prosecutorial Office of the Nation") is the Uruguayan government agency that prosecutes offenders, investigate crimes and accuse criminal law infractions against judges and courts of justice. It was created by Law No. 19,438 as a decentralized service. History The Attorney General's Office as the Public Ministry was created in 1907 during the administration of President Claudio Williman by the same law that created the High Court –predecessor of the Supreme Court–. Until 2015, it was an agency dependent on the Ministry of Education and Culture, but with the promulgation of Law No. 19,334, it was established as a decentralized state service, not being part of any of the three branches of government. Attorney General Article One Hundred and Sixty-Eight of the Constitution of Uruguay The Constitution of Uruguay () is the supreme law of Uruguay. Its first version was written in 1830 and its last constitutional a ...
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of 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 . It has a population of almost 3.5 million people, of whom nearly 2 million live in Montevideo metropolitan area, the metropolitan area of its capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter gatherer, hunter gatherers 13,000 years ago. The first European explorer to reach the region was Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, but the area was colonized later than its neighbors. At the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, European arrival, the Charrúa were the predominant tribe, alongside other groups such as the Guaraní people ...
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Montevideo
Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% 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. A Portuguese garrison was established in the place where today is the city of Montevideo in November 1723. The Portuguese garrison was expelled in February 1724 by a Spanish soldier, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst the Spanish people, Spanish-Portuguese people, Portuguese dispute over the Río de la Plata Basin, platine region. There is no official document establishing the foundation of the city, but the "Diario" of Bruno Mauricio de Zabala officially mentions the date of 24 December 1726 as the foundation, corroborated by presential witnesses. The complete independence from Buenos Aires as a real city was not ...
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Juan Gómez Duarte
Juan Bautista Gómez Duarte (born 29 June 1955) is a Uruguayan lawyer and prosecutor, currently serving as Attorney General of Uruguay since October 6, 2021. Early life and education Juan Bautista Gómez Duarte was born on June 29, 1958, in the rural area of Tranqueras, Rivera Department. He is one of seven children born to Antón Gomez and Luisa "Anita" Duarte. He is of Brazilian descent through his father. At the age of seven he underwent heart surgery. He attended Rivera Department public schools and at the age of 19 he enrolled at the University of the Republic to study law. Career He began working as a civil servant in the Attorney General's Office in 1975 while studying at the university. In 1997 he became a prosecutor and was assigned as a prosecutor in the city of Rivera until 2000. Then he was assigned until 2009 as a Departmental Prosecutor of Maldonado. In office he prosecuted Guillermo Coppola for obstruction of justice. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Nationa ...
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Entes Autónomos Y Servicios Descentralizados
The Autonomous State Entities and Decentralized Services () are two types of government-owned corporations typical of the Uruguayan state. According to Section XI of the Constitution of Uruguay, their legal personality is subject to public law. Autonomous State Entities * Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas (UTE) * Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcohol y Portland (ANCAP) * State Railways Administration of Uruguay (AFE) * Instituto Nacional de Colonización (INC) * Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) * Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay (BHU) * Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU) * Banco de Seguros del Estado (BSE) * Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) * University of the Republic The University of the Republic (, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is a public research university in Montevideo, Uruguay. It is the country's oldest and largest university, as well as one of the largest public universities in South America in terms of en ... (UdelaR) ...
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Claudio Williman
Claudio Wílliman Gonzalez (10 October 1861 in Montevideo – 9 February 1934 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan political figure. Background Claudio Wílliman's parents, José Williman and Antonia González, were immigrants from Galicia, Spain. José Wílliman's parents himself came from Savoy, France, with Alsatian roots. Williman studied at the University of Montevideo and graduated with a Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences in 1887. From his adolescence he devoted his intellectual activity to teaching. In 1885 he was appointed professor of Physics at the University, and two years later was entrusted with the chair of the same subject at the Military School. Williman also taught classes in Cosmography and Physical Geography at the Military School, during the first years of its operation, and also taught at various private institutes. He was also, as noted by one study, “one of the initiators of the foundation of the Faculty of Mathematics and was part of its faculty from the fi ...
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Supreme Court Of Uruguay
The Supreme Court of Justice of Uruguay () is the highest court of law and last resort in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay. It serves as the highest appeals court, and appoints and oversees all other judges. Established on 28 October 1907, it is housed in the Palacio Piria, a masterpiece of eclectic architecture from 1917.Palacio Piria
Article 235 of the Constitution establishes that the members of the Supreme Court of Justice must be at least 40 years old, be natural-born citizens (or be legal citizens with ten years exercise thereof and twenty-fiv ...
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Ministry Of Education And Culture (Uruguay)
The Ministry of Education and Culture () of Uruguay is the ministry of the Government of Uruguay that is responsible for the coordination of national education, the promotion of the country's cultural development, the preservation of the nation's artistic, historical and cultural heritage, as well as innovation, science and technology and the promotion and strengthening of the validity of human rights. It is also responsible for the development of the state communication multimedia system and for promoting the digitized access of the entire population to information. It is also responsible for the formulation and coordination of policies regarding the judicial defense of the interests of the State and for ensuring the necessary information for the correct application of the law. The Ministry is headquartered in the Reconquista Street in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo. The current Minister of Education and Culture is José Carlos Mahía, who has held the position since 1 March 2025. ...
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Constitution Of Uruguay
The Constitution of Uruguay () is the supreme law of Uruguay. Its first version was written in 1830 and its last constitutional amendment, amendment was made in 2004. Uruguay's first constitution was adopted in 1830, following the conclusion of the three-year-long Cisplatine War in which Argentina and Uruguay acted as a federation: the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata. Mediated by the United Kingdom, the 1828 Treaty of Montevideo allowed to build the foundations for a Uruguayan sovereign state, state and constitution. It has been reformed in 1918, 1934, 1942, 1952 and 1967, but it still maintains several articles from its first version of 1830. Versions Original Constitution (1830 - 1918) When it became independence, independent on August 25, 1825, the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (''República Oriental del Uruguay'') drew up its first constitution, which was promulgated on 18 July 1830. Heavily influenced by the thinking of the French Revolution, French and America ...
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1907 Establishments In Uruguay
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Government Agencies Established In 1907
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. In many countries, the government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. While all types of organizations have governance, the term ''government'' is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 list of sovereign states, independent national governments and government agency, subsidiary organizations. The main types of modern political systems recognized are democracy, democracies, totalitarian regimes, and, sitting between these two, authoritarianism, authoritarian regimes with a variety of hybrid regimes. Modern classification systems also ...
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