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Julio María Sanguinetti

President of Uruguay (1985–1990; 1995–2000)

Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxuljo maˈɾia saŋɡiˈneti kojˈɾolo]; born 6 January 1936) often known by his initials JMS, is a Uruguayan former lawyer, journalist and politician of the Colorado Party (PC) who served as the President of Uruguay as the 35th president from 1985 to 1990, and again as the 37th president from 1995 to 2000. He was the first democratically elected president after twelve years of military dictatorship.²

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Born Jan 6, 1936.¹

About

Born in Montevideo, Sanguinetti graduated from the University of the Republic in 1961 with a law degree. He later combined his legal practice with work as a journalist. He had already been writing for the press, first in the weekly Canelones and later, since 1955, as a columnist for Acción, a newspaper established by the then-President, Luis Batlle Berres, for which he covered events such as the Cuban Revolution and the OAS Foreign Ministers' summit that censured Cuba for its decision to establish relations with the Soviet Union.

In the 1962 general election, Sanguinetti was elected National Representative for the Montevideo Department, and re-elected in 1966. In 1969 the then president Jorge Pacheco Areco appointed him Minister of Industry and Commerce. From March to October 1972 he served as Minister of Education and Culture under Juan María Bordaberry. He publicly opposed the 1973 coup d'état and the subsequent civil-military dictatorship.

Sanguinetti participated in the Naval Club Pact that made the democratic transition possible. In the 1984 general election he was elected President of Uruguay as the most voted candidate of the most voted political party, according to the Ley de Lemas system. Major government initiatives he undertook during his first term consisted of measures to disarm the previous regime, and included an amnesty law in favor of people who were still detained, convicted by military justice for political crimes and the Law on the Expiration of the Punitive Claims of the State. In foreign policy, Sanguinetti's government recognized and established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, and signed the Alvorada Act, which added Uruguay to the regional integration process, which later led to the creation of the Southern Common Market.

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Companies

AncelFounder¹⁹

Early life and education

Date not recordedUniversity of the Republic³

Sanguinetti Coirolo was born in Montevideo on January 6, 1936, to a middle-class Italian-Uruguayan family from the town of Chiavari near the city of Genoa. His parents were Julio León Sanguinetti Maupe and Ema Coirolo Saravia. His maternal grandmother was Regina Saravia de Coirolo, daughter of Chiquito Saravia, brother of Aparicio Saravia, caudillo of the National Party.

Raised in a politically diverse family, he joined the Colorado Party in his teens. He attended Elbio Fernández School for his primary education, and the Liceo José Enrique Rodó and Alfredo Vásquez Acevedo Institute for his secondary education. In 1955 he enrolled at the University of the Republic, from which he obtained a law degree in 1961.

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Career

Occupation: lawyer, politician, journalist.⁶

2020Senator of the República Oriental del Uruguay⁵
1995 to 2000President of Uruguay⁵
1985 to 1990President of Uruguay⁵
1972Minister of Education and Culture⁵
Date not recordedFounded Ancel⁴

Personal life

BornJan 6, 1936, Montevideo⁷
CitizenshipUruguay⁸
SpouseMarta Canessa⁹

He is married to the historian and journalist Marta Canessa; they have two children, Julio Luis and Emma, both of them lawyers.

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Politics

In 1963, at the age of 27, Sanguinetti became a member of the Chamber of Representative for the Montevideo Department. In 1964 he was a member of the Uruguayan delegation that participated in the establishment of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

In 1966, Sanguinetti served as a member of the drafting group and informer on Constitutional Reform and from 1967 he was a member of the advisory group of Colorado President Jorge Pacheco on affairs related to the Organization of American States. Later on, in 1969, Pacheco appointed him as Minister for Industry and Commerce, a position which he occupied until 1971, when he was appointed Head of the Uruguayan Trade Mission to the USSR. He also became Deputy Editor of Acción.

In March 1972, the new President, also from the PC Party, Juan María Bordaberry, brought him to the government once again as Minister for Education and Culture. That same year, Sanguinetti was a founding member of the National Commission for the Historical, Artistic and Cultural Heritage of the Nation.

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Awards

2011Medal of Military Merit^{10 17}
2008Pluma de Honor^{10 16}
2000International Simón Bolívar Prize¹⁰
1999honorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela^{10 15}
1997Gold medal of Galicia¹⁰
1997Lagun Onari^{10 14}
1997honorary doctor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences^{10 13}
1995Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic^{10 12}
1985Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎¹⁰
Date not recordedGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour¹⁰

More awards (19)

Date not recordedGrand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross¹⁰
Date not recordedGrand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎¹⁰
Date not recordedGrand Cross with collar of the Order of Vytautas the Great¹⁰
Date not recordedJuan Pablo Duarte Order of Merit¹⁰
Date not recordedNational Order of Merit¹⁰
Date not recordedNational Order of Merit¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of Boyacá¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of Francisco Morazán¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of José Matías Delgado¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of Manuel Amador Guerrero¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of Merit¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Crown of the Realm¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Liberator General San Martín¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Liberator¹⁰
Date not recordedOrder of the Quetzal¹⁰
Date not recordedPremio Bartolomé Hidalgo^{10 11}
Date not recordedSovereign Military Order of Malta¹⁰
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem¹⁰
Date not recordedhonorary doctor of the University of Alicante¹⁰

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