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Gabriel Gurméndez Armand-Ugon
Gabriel Gurméndez Armand-Ugon (born July 4, 1961) is a Uruguayan industrial engineer, business executive and politician of the Colorado Party (PC), who served as president of the National Administration of Telecommunications from 2020 to 2023, and as Minister of Transport and Public Works in 2004. Gurmendez was born in Montevideo within a family with long ties to the Colorado Party, and graduated from the University of the Republic with a degree in electrical engineering, also obtaining diplomas in economics and business management. Throughout his professional career he has served in the management of numerous companies and business groups, such as the Cancún International Airport. In the political sphere, he has served as a technical advisor in various government institutions, as well as president of the National Administration of Telecommunications and Minister of Transport and Public Works. Gurmendez was a candidate in the 2024 Colorado presidential primaries for pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitán De Corbeta Carlos A
Capitan and Kapitan are equivalents of the English Captain in other European languages. Capitan, Capitano, and Kapitan may also refer to: Places in the United States * Capitan, Louisiana, an unincorporated community *Capitan, New Mexico, a village * Capitan Mountains, New Mexico People * George Kapitan, who wrote for Timely in the Golden Age of Comic Books. * Tomis Kapitan, an American philosopher and Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University. Arts and entertainment *''Der Kapitän'' or ''The Captain'' (film), a 1971 German comedy * ''Der Kapitän'' (TV series), a German series *''Le Capitan'', a novel by Michel Zevaco Other uses *Kapitän, a shortened version of several ranks in the German navy *Kapitan, another name for Opperhoofd, a Dutch colonial governor *Opel Kapitän, a luxury car manufactured from 1938 to 1970 *Capitan (tequila), a brand of tequila produced by Barton Brands *Capitan Records, a record label set up by American musician Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
50th Legislature Of The Chamber Of Representatives Of Uruguay
The Fifty Legislature of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay is the current meeting of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay, lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay, Uruguayan General Assembly. It convened in Montevideo on February 15, 2025, during the last weeks of Presidency of Luis Lacalle Pou, Luis Lacalle Pou's presidency and will remain in session throughout the five-year term of Presidency of Yamandú Orsi, Yamandú Orsi's presidency. Deputies were elected in the 2024 Uruguayan general election, 2024 general election by Departments of Uruguay, department, for a five-year term by proportional representation with at least two members per department. The opposition Republican Coalition will have a simple majority of 49 seats, compared to 48 for the ruling Broad Front (Uruguay), Broad Front and 2 for Sovereign Identity, which is not part of either of the two blocs. Party summary Composition Artigas Department, Artigas : Emiliano Soravilla (PN) : Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Of Representatives Of Uruguay
The Chamber of Representatives () is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (''Asamblea General de Uruguay''). The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation with at least two members per department. The composition and powers of the Chamber of Representatives are established by Article Ninety of the Uruguayan Constitution. It also requires that members must be aged at least 25 and have been a citizen of Uruguay for five years. It is the competence of the Chamber of Representatives to accuse in the Senate members of both houses, the President and Vice President of the Republic, the Ministers of State, the members of the Supreme Court, the Administrative Litigation Court, the Court of Accounts and the Electoral Court, either for violating the Constitution or other serious crimes. Latest elections Representatives President The Presidency of the Chamber is renewed at the beginning of each session. Every year, a Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Uruguayan General Election
General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 October 2024. Since no presidential candidate received a majority in the first round of voting, a runoff took place on 24 November 2024, with Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front (Uruguay), Broad Front defeating Álvaro Delgado (politician), Álvaro Delgado of the Republican Coalition. The first round of the election also coincided with two 2024 Uruguayan constitutional referendum, constitutional referendums on reforms to the social security system that would lower the retirement age, increase payouts and transfer privately managed savings to a state-run trust, and allowing for nighttime police raids in homes. Background Incumbent President Luis Lacalle Pou, who won the 2019 Uruguayan general election, 2019 elections, cannot run again as the constitution bars a president from immediate re-election. As a result, the governing National Party (Uruguay), National Party has to nominate a new candidate. Lacalle Pou took office in 2020, headin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vamos Uruguay
Vamos Uruguay (Spanish, 'Go Uruguay') is a political sector of the Colorado Party in Uruguay. It was founded by Pedro Bordaberry in 2007. It is considered to be the faction furthest to the right within the party, and is seen as the continuation of the old Riverist current. It opposes the direction of Battlist factions in the party. In the 2009 Uruguayan general election, Vamos Uruguay members got a majority of Colorado votes. Since 2005, it has had three senators including Pedro Bordaberry, Germán Coutinho, and Ope Pasquet, as well as 14 representatives including Fernando Amado, Alma Mallo, Aníbal Gloodtofsky, Fitzgerald Cantero, Juan Manuel Garino y Juan Ángel Vázquez (Montevideo), Graciela Mattiaude (Canelones), Germán Cardoso (Maldonado), Gustavo Cersósimo (San José), Daniel Bianchi Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Bordaberry
Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrán (born 28 April 1960) is a Uruguayan attorney, lecturer, and politician, serving as Senate of Uruguay, Senator of the Republic since 2025. He previously served in the same position from 2010 to 2020, as Ministry of Tourism (Uruguay), Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2003 to 2005, and as Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining (Uruguay), Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining from 2002 to 2003. A member of the Colorado Party (Uruguay), Colorado Party, he was the party's candidate for President of Uruguay, president in the 2009 Uruguayan general election, 2009 and 2014 Uruguayan general election, 2014 presidential elections. Early life and education Bordaberry was born on 28 April 1960 in the capital city of Montevideo, the fourth child of Juan María Bordaberry and his wife, Josefina Herrán, Josefina Herrán Puig. Bordaberry comes from a family heavily involved in politics; his father, who was of Basques, Basque descent, was elected president in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Lacalle Pou
Luis Alberto Aparicio Alejandro Lacalle Pou (, ; born 11 August 1973), is a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 42nd president of Uruguay from 2020 to 2025. The son of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle, Lacalle Pou attended The British Schools of Montevideo and graduated from the Catholic University of Uruguay in 1998 with a law degree. A member of the National Party (Uruguay), National Party, he was first elected to the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay, Chamber of Representatives in the 1999 Uruguayan general election, 1999 election as a National Representative for the Canelones Department, a position he held from 2000 to 2015. During the first session of the 47th Legislature (2011–2012) he chaired the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay, General Assembly. He also served as Senate of Uruguay, Senator from 2015 to 2019. He ran unsuccessfully for president in 2014 Uruguayan general election, 2014. Five years later, he defeated the Broad Fron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Railways Administration Of Uruguay
The State Railways Administration of Uruguay (), or AFE, is the autonomous agency of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay charged with rail transport and the maintenance of Uruguayan railways. History On 31 December 1948, Parliament approved projects for acquiring foreign railroads, discharging part of the £17 million which was owed to Uruguay by the United Kingdom because of purchases made during World War II. On 31 January 1949, the railroads were nationalized. That August, the executive branch of government proposed to the General Assembly the creation of a body known as the Land Transport Management of the State (ATTE), charged with the following: *Manage passenger and freight transport by road *Operate and maintain the rail network *Provide services on roads built and maintained by the Ministry of Transportation The monopoly would gradually prepare to take over private enterprises, and the proposal was based on the need to avoid ruinous competition. Having difficulty obtaini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Bank Of Uruguay
The Central Bank of Uruguay (, BCU) is the central bank of Uruguay. History The Central Bank of Uruguay was established on July 6, 1967 as an autonomous state entity (), with the passing of the 196th article of the Constitution of 1967. Prior to the creation of the BCU, the issuing of currency and managing and supervising of the banking system was handled by the department of the Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay. On March 30, 1995 a bank charter was passed (Law 16,696), which expanded the BCUs responsibilities and set out the management structure as well as the functions and responsibilities of the bank. The headquarters of the Central Bank in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo houses the numismatic museum, in which both Uruguayan coins and banknotes from the Banco de la República and the Central Bank, as well as foreign ones, are exhibited. Functions According to the 7th article of the BCU's Charter, its responsibilities are; * Issuer of money notes and coins, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
