Manuel de Sarratea

Manuel de Sarratea Altoguirre ( born August 11, 1774 Buenos Aires, † 21 September 1849 in Limoges ) was an Argentine diplomat and politician.

Manuel de Sarratea Altoguirres ancestors came from the Basque Country. He was born in Buenos Aires, but completed training in Madrid and then returned to his home country to work as a diplomat. After his participation in the May Revolution of 1810, he was appointed on the recommendation of Manuel Belgrano ambassador in Rio de Janeiro. From September 23 1811 to 8 October 1812, he was a member of the First Triumvirate of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, which included the territory of present-day Argentina, Uruguay and Tarija to the mid- 30s of the 19th century.

After he was in 1814 failed diplomatic mission in Spain, he went in 1816 back to Buenos Aires and worked for some time as Minister of Foreign Affairs, until he retired for health reasons and sent to Montevideo into exile because of his contacts with the political opposition was.

In 1820, he returned as an emissary of the federal army back to Buenos Aires, where he was employed from February 18 to March 6 and again from 11 May to the end of May as provincial governor. Then he pulled back again for a few years out of politics.

On August 31, 1825 appointed Juan Gregorio de Las Heras, at that time acting governor of Buenos Aires, Sarratea to Encargado de Negocios de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata cerca de Gran Bretaña ( Trade Representative of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata) UK.

In 1826 was Sarratea by Bernardino Rivadavia, the first president of Argentina, once again sent as a representative to London, under the subsequent Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, he was ambassador in Brazil and France.