Vice Presidents of Uruguay - Jorge Pacheco Areco, Vice President of Uruguay, Gonzalo Aguirre, Luis Batlle Berres, Jorge Sapelli (Paperback)

Chapters: Jorge Pacheco Areco, Vice President of Uruguay, Gonzalo Aguirre, Luis Batlle Berres, Jorge Sapelli, Luis Antonio Hierro Lopez, Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Alfeo Brum, Alberto Abdala, Alberto Guani, Cesar Charlone, Hugo Batalla, Hugo Fernandez Faingold, Enrique Tarigo, Alfredo Navarro. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jorge Pacheco Areco (November 8, 1920July 29, 1998) was a Uruguayan politician and member of the Colorado Party. He served as President of Uruguay from December 6, 1967 to March 1, 1972. In the government of President Oscar Gestido in 1967, Pacheco served as Vice President of Uruguay, a post which was revived when he took office, having been in abeyance for several years. Pacheco was the sixth person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay. The office dates from 1934, when Cesar Charlone became Uruguay's first Vice President. Jorge Pacheco, then vice president, succeeded to the presidency in December 1967 after the elected president Oscar Gestido died after a few months in office. He immediately implemented price and wage freezes in an attempt to control inflation, and enforced a state of emergency in June 1968 citing the resulting labour disputes. Constitutional safeguards were repealed during these periods, and the government used torture during interrogations, brutally repressed demonstrations, and imprisoned political dissidents. His administration was victim of the terrorist group Tupamaros (MLNT), formed earlier in 1963, as a communist revolutionary organization wanting to impose a regime similar to Cuba's. The group kidnapped and later released several foreign nationals, robbed banks, conducted bombings, freed political prisoners, and assassinated police officials. The government imposed modified martial law through...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=176180