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José Batlle Y Ordóñez
José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez ( or ; 23 May 1856 – 20 October 1929), nicknamed ''Don Pepe'', was a prominent Uruguayan politician who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. The son of a former president, he introduced his political system, Batllism, to South America and modernized Uruguay through his creation of extensive welfare state reforms. In 1898, Batile served as interim president for a few weeks. He was later elected to the presidency for two terms: from 1903 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1915. He remains one of the most popular Uruguayan presidents, mainly due to his role as a social reformer. Influenced by Krausist liberalism, he is known for influencing the introduction of universal suffrage and the eight-hour workday, as well as free high school education. He was one of the main promoters of Uruguayan secularization, which led to the separation of the state and the Catholic Church. Education started a process of great expansion f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Juan Lindolfo Cuestas
Juan Lindolfo de los Reyes Cuestas (6 January 1837 – 21 June 1905) was a Uruguayan politician who served as the 18th President of Uruguay from 1897 until 1899 and for a second term from 1899 to 1903. Background Juan Lindolfo Cuestas was a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party, which dominated the country's politics for over a century. He was Minister of Finance from 1875 to 1876 and from 1880 to 1882. He served as Minister of Justice and Education from 1884 to 1886. His son, Juan Cuestas, was a diplomat. President of Uruguay First term Lindolfo Cuestas first assumed the Presidency in crisis circumstances . On August 25, 1897 the sitting President of Uruguay, Juan Idiarte Borda was assassinated by a gunman, Avelino Arredondo. Lindolfo Cuestas as the President of the Senate of Uruguay became president. Within two years Lindolfo Cuestas had ceded the Presidency to José Batlle y Ordóñez on an interim basis. Second term He soon reassumed the office, however, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ordóñez
Ordóñez or Ordoñez is a Spanish surname, derived from the given name ''Ordoño''. Notable people with the surname include: * Ordóñez (bullfighter family) ** Cayetano Ordóñez (1904–1961), patriarch of the family ** Antonio Ordóñez (1932–1998) ** Francisco Rivera Ordóñez (born 1974) ** Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez (born 1977) * Andersson Ordóñez (born 1994), Ecuadorian footballer * Angel Gil-Ordoñez (born 1957), Spanish-American conductor * Arquímides Ordóñez (born 2003), Guatemalan-American footballer * Arturo Ordóñez (born 1997), Spanish footballer * Bartolomé Ordóñez (1480–1520), Spanish Renaissance sculptor * Bernarda Ordóñez Moscoso, Ecuadorian politician * Bryan Ordóñez (born 1990), Guatemalan footballer * Christian Ordóñez (born 2004), Argentine footballer * Deinner Ordóñez (born 2009), Ecuadorian footballer * Diana Ordóñez (born 2001), Mexican-American footballer *Diana Ordóñez (born 1987), also known as LeDania, Colombian street artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertising, or public relations personnel. Depending on the form of journalism, "journalist" may also describe various categories of people by the roles they play in the process. These include reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, Editorial board, editors, Editorial board, editorial writers, columnists, and photojournalists. A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using source (journalism), sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, from home or outside to witness events or interview people. Reporters may be assigned a specific Beat reporting, beat (area of cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jorge Batlle
Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez (; ''Batlle'' locally or ; 25 October 1927 – 24 October 2016) was a Uruguayan politician and lawyer, who served as the 38th president of Uruguay from 2000 to 2005. A member of the Colorado Party (Uruguay), Colorado Party, he previously served as Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay, National Representative from 1959 to 1967, and as Senate of Uruguay, Senator of the Republic from 1985 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1999. The eldest son of the 30th president Luis Batlle Berres and a member of the Batlle family, he was the fourth member of the family to serve as president of the country. He graduated from the University of the Republic (Uruguay), University of the Republic in 1959 with a law degree, and then began a career as a journalist in El Día (Uruguay), ''El Día'' newspaper. He began his political career in the 1950s, being elected Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay, National Representative in the 1958 Uruguayan general election, 1958 general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Matilde Ibáñez Tálice
Matilde Ibáñez Tálice (3 March 1907 – 4 September 2002) was the First Lady of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951, as the wife of President Luis Batlle Berres. Ibáñez is also the mother of Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, who served as president from 2000 until 2005. Biography Matilde Ibáñez Tálice was born in Buenos Aires to the Argentine León Ibáñez Saavedra, who was a descendant of Cornelio Saavedra, and the Uruguayan Elvira Tálice Parodi. In 1927 she married the young politician Luis Batlle Berres Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan politician who was President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951. Background Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was ..., they had three children: Jorge (future President of Uruguay), Luis and Matilde. During the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra, the Batlle-Ibáñez family had to go to exile in Argentina. In 1947, her husband assumed as Vice President of U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Luis Batlle Berres
Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres (26 November 1897 – 15 July 1964) was a Uruguayan politician who was President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951. Background Batlle Berres was a journalist and prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was selected – in hindsight, with far-reaching effect – to serve as vice presidential running-mate for Luis Tomás Berreta. The great-great-grandson of Catalan settlers from Sitges, Spain, he was the son of another political figure, Luis Batlle y Ordóñez, brother of ex president José Batlle. His mother, Petrona Berres Mac Entyre, was of Irish descent and died when he was still a small child. Then, his father remarried but died soon after, in 1908. As a result, he went to live with his uncle, José Batlle y Ordóñez, the three-time President of Uruguay, and his cousins César, Rafael and Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco on the Piedras Blancas estate in the suburbs of Montevideo. He studied law at the urging of his godfather, Dr. José I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Duncan Stewart (Uruguayan Politician)
Duncan Antonio Stewart Agell (1833 – 1923), was a Uruguayan president of Scottish Argentine origin. He served as interim President of Uruguay for a brief time in 1894. Family background He was the son of a marriage between Scotsman Duncan Stewart (of Acharn) and Uruguayan Dorotea Agell. Little is known about his life, but it is known he was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1833. His niece Matilde Pacheco married José Batlle y Ordóñez, who was later to become a long-serving Uruguayan President. His grand-nephews César Batlle Pacheco and Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco each served as a Deputy and Senator, and Rafael Batlle Pacheco was a notable journalist. Early political career Later he moved to Uruguay, where he worked as a civil servant and later as a politician. He served as the Ministry of Economy and Finance (Uruguay), Minister of Finance in the administration of Lorenzo Batlle from 1869 to 1872. In 1890 he was elected Senator. He served as the List of Presidents of the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco
Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco (4 March 1897 – 3 December 1954) was a Uruguayan political figure and journalist. Background Pacheco was born in Montevideo. He was a journalist on the newspaper '' El Día'' and a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. He was a son of Matilde Pacheco and long-serving President of Uruguay José Batlle y Ordóñez. Brother of Rafael and César Batlle Pacheco. Deputy; Senator Batlle Pacheco was elected as a Deputy in 1927. In 1931 he was elected as a Senator, and was subsequently re-elected to the Senate in 1947. In 1950, Batlle Pacheco also stood for the nomination of the vice-presidency under César Mayo Gutiérrez, a Batllista who put himself forward as a presidential candidate that year and who promised to (as noted by one journal) “continue the work of social justice that has been the clear heritage of Batllismo” if elected president. Batlle Pacheco died in 1954, while serving as a Senator. He also founded the Sunday supplement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rafael Batlle Pacheco
Rafael Batlle Pacheco (1888, Montevideo – 1960) was a Uruguayan journalist. Background He was a journalist on the newspaper '' El Día'' and a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party. Although he was never elected to office, his political positions were very influential. He was a son of Matilde Pacheco and long-serving President of Uruguay José Batlle y Ordóñez. He was a brother of Lorenzo and César Batlle Pacheco. See also * Politics of Uruguay The politics of Uruguay abide by a presidential system, presidential Representative democracy, representative democratic republic, under which the president of Uruguay is both the head of state and the head of government, as well as a multiform ... * List of political families#Uruguay References 1888 births 1960 deaths Batlle family Mass media people from Montevideo Uruguayan people of Catalan descent Uruguayan people of Scottish descent Children of presidents of Uruguay Colorado Party (Uruguay) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
César Batlle Pacheco
César Batlle Pacheco (30 August 1885 – 5 June 1966) was a Uruguayan journalist and political figure. Biography Batlle was born in Montevideo into the distinguished Batlle family, the eldest son of Matilde Pacheco and José Batlle y Ordóñez, the three-time President of Uruguay (1899, 1903–07 and 1911–15). His brothers were Rafael and Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco. He was of Catalan descent. He and his brothers grew up with his orphaned cousin, future Uruguayan president Luis Batlle Berres, on the Piedras Blancas estate outside Montevideo. He was a journalist by profession and a prominent member of the Uruguayan Colorado Party, closely associated with '' El Día'', the newspaper founded by his father. In 1919, he served as president of Club Atlético Peñarol. In 1931, and between 1943 and 1952, he served as president of the Uruguayan Football Association Political elections He was elected a Deputy in 1951. From 1959 till 1963, he served as a minority member in the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
