Juan MarÃa Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena ( born June 17, 1928 in Montevideo, † July 17, 2011 ) was a Uruguayan politician and dictator. He was President of Uruguay from 1972 to 1976, from 1973 he ruled with a civil-military dictatorship over the South American country.
Life
Bordaberry was born into a family of landowners. About the League Federal de Acción Rural Ista, the lobby group of the agrarians, he went into politics. In 1969, he joined the Partido Colorado and was from 1969 to 1972 Minister of Agriculture under President Jorge Pacheco Areco. On 28 November 1971 he was elected to succeed him and kicked - in the midst of an economic crisis - on 1 March 1972, the president of. He tried to control with authoritarian measures the position and appointed members of the military in the government. Under pressure from the military, he dissolved parliament, suspended the civil rights and outlawing unions. However, these measures did not show the desired military success, and it put him in 1976.
On 10 February 2010, a court in Montevideo sentenced him to 30 years imprisonment. He was charged with breach of the constitution and the establishment of a civil-military dictatorship. Bordaberry since November 2006 was already due to political violence in custody, but was serving since January 2007, the penalty for health reasons under house arrest.
His son is the politician Pedro Bordaberry, who took on the presidential elections in 2009 in Uruguay.