Estanislao Valdés Otero (born 18 August 1931 in

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 . M ...

) is a Uruguayan lawyer, author, and politician. During the

Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–1985), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the 1973 coup d'état) until March 1, 1985 ...

he was

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889 ...

(2 February 1977 – 14 April 1978) and afterwards Minister of Foreign Relations (17 February 1981 – 2 September 1982). He was in charge of keeping Uruguay neutral during the

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Works

* ''Derechos de autor: régimen jurídico uruguayo''. Prologue by Eduardo J. Couture (Facultad de Derecho, Montevideo, 1953). * ''Inflación y subdesarrollo'' (Fundación de Cultura Universitaria, 1992).Inflación y subdesarrollo
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1931 births Living people Politicians from Montevideo University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni 20th-century Uruguayan lawyers Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay Ministers of livestock, agriculture, and fisheries of Uruguay Ministers of foreign relations of Uruguay {{Uruguay-politician-stub