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Juan Maria Bordaberry

Juan María Bordaberry
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President of Uruguay
De facto
In office
June 27, 1973 – June 12, 1976
Preceded by Coup d'état
Succeeded by Alberto Demicheli
34th President of Uruguay
In office
March 1, 1972 – June 27, 1973
Vice President Jorge Sapelli
Preceded by Jorge Pacheco
Succeeded by Coup d'état
In office
October 14, 1969 – February 1, 1972
President Jorge Pacheco
Preceded by Jaime Montaner
Succeeded by Héctor Viana Martorell
Personal details
Born (1928-06-17)17 June 1928
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died 17 July 2011(2011-07-17) (aged 83)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Resting place Cemetery Park Martinelli de Carrasco, Montevideo
Political party Colorado Party
Spouse(s) Josefina Herrán Puig
Children María
Juan
Martín
Pedro
Santiago
Pablo
Javier
Andrés
Ana
Parents Domingo Bordaberry
Elisa Arocena
Occupation Politician
Stockgrower
Religion Roman Catholicism

Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011) was a Uruguayan dictator, politician and cattle rancher, who first served as a constitutional President from 1972 until 1973, and then ruled as the head of a civilian-military dictatorship up to 1976.

He came to office following the Presidential elections of late 1971. In 1973, Bordaberry dissolved the General Assembly and was widely regarded as ruling by decree as a military-sponsored dictator until disagreements with the military led to his being overthrown before his original term of office had expired. On November 17, 2006 he was arrested in a case involving four deaths, including two of members of the General Assembly during the period of civilian-military rule in the 1970s.

Bordaberry was born in 1928 in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital. Juan María Bordaberry's father was Domingo Bordaberry, who served in the Senate and in Ruralist leadership, and he was the heir to one of the largest ranches in the country. Initially, Juan María Bordaberry belonged to the National Party, popularly known as the Blancos, and was elected to the Senate on the Blanco ticket. In 1964, however, he assumed the leadership of Liga Nacional de Accion Ruralista (Spanish for "National Rural Action League"), and in 1969 joined the Colorado Party.

That year he was appointed to the Cabinet, where he sat from 1969 to 1971 as agriculture minister in the government of President Jorge Pacheco, having had a long association with rural affairs (see Domingo Bordaberry).

Bordaberry was elected president as the Colorado candidate in 1971. He took office in 1972 in the midst of an institutional crisis caused by the authoritarian rule of Pacheco and the terrorist threat. Bordaberry, at the time, had been a minor political figure; he exercised little independent standing as a successor to Pacheco other than being Pacheco's handpicked successor. He continued Pacheco's authoritarian methods, suspending civil liberties, banning labor unions, and imprisoning and killing opposition figures. He appointed military officers to most leading government positions.


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