Eduardo Rodriguez-Larreta (11 December 1888 – 15 August 1973) was a journalist and Uruguayan foreign minister in the 1940s.
Noted achievements
Mr Rodríguez formulated what is sometimes called the "Larreta Doctrine," which said nations of the Americas could "consider multilateral action against any member state violating elementary human rights."
Rodríguez Larreta argued that there a "parallelism" between democratic practice and respect for human rights in domestic politics and the maintenance of peace in the Americas. The proposal was advanced in a series of diplomatic notes in late 1945 and early 1946 for possible inclusion in the agendas of upcoming postwar inter-American conferences, including the Rio Conference that produced the
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (commonly known as the Rio Treaty, the Rio Pact, the Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, or by the Spanish-language acronym TIAR from ''Tratado Interamericano de Asistencia Recíproca'') is an inter ...
. The proposal drew on Latin American traditions of popular sovereignty and international jurisprudence. Long and Friedman describe the Larreta doctrine as, "a tripartite precommitment mechanism to create a web of national commitments to democratic governance and the domestic protection of human rights, to establish a regional insurance policy against failures to maintain those commitments, and to obligate the great power and neighboring states to precommit to working through the regional system instead of unilaterally." The "doctrine" was controversial, with Argentine Foreign Minister
:es:Juan Isaac Cooke and others, criticizing it as going against
non-interventionism.
The proposal was also opposed by Brazil and Mexico, though it garnered support from the United States, Guatemala, and Cuba.
Foreign Minister of Uruguay
He served as Foreign Minister of Uruguay from 1945 until 1947, in the government of
President of Uruguay
The president of Uruguay (), officially known as the president of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (), is the head of state and head of government of Uruguay. The president presides over the Cabinet of Uruguay, Council of Ministers, directing ...
Juan José de Amézaga.
Founding Co-editor of
El País
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Rodriguez Larreta also served as a founding editor of
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA.
It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ...
and received the
Maria Moors Cabot prize
The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes are the oldest international awards in the field of journalism. They are presented each fall by the Trustees of Columbia University to journalists in the Western hemisphere who are viewed as having made a significant c ...
in 1949.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism list of Cabot Prize winners by name (PDF)
See also
* List of ministers of foreign relations of Uruguay
References
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Ministers of foreign relations of Uruguay
Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners
National Party (Uruguay) politicians
1888 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Uruguayan journalists