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Juan María Bordaberry was born on 17 June, 1928 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a President of Uruguay from 1972 to 1976. Discover Juan María Bordaberry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Occupation Politician, Stockgrower
Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 17 June 1928
Birthday 17 June
Birthplace Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of death 17 July, 2011
Died Place Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguay

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His wife is Josefina Herrán Puig

Family
Parents Domingo Bordaberry (Father) Elisa Arocena (Mother)
Wife Josefina Herrán Puig
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Children 9, including Pedro

Juan María Bordaberry Net Worth

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1928

Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011), also referred to by his initials JMB, was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his resignation in 1976 and the 1st President of the Civic-Military Dictatorship from 1973 to 1976.

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.

1964

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.

1969

Previously, he was the Minister of Agriculture from 1969 to 1972.

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).

1971

He came to office following the Presidential elections of late 1971.

Bordaberry was elected president as a Colorado candidate in 1971.

He actually won the second-most overall votes, finishing 60,000 votes behind Wilson Ferreira Aldunate of the National Party.

However, the combined Colorado vote exceeded the combined National vote by just over 12,000 votes.

Under Uruguay's Ley de Lemas system, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president.

1972

Bordaberry 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 had 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.

Before and after his period of Presidential office, he was identified with schemes for agricultural improvement; his Agriculture minister was Benito Medero.

1973

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.

In personal terms, one of Bordaberry's actions which proved in hindsight to have been disadvantageous was his appointment of Jorge Sapelli as Vice President of Uruguay, given the latter's resignation and public repudiation of him in 1973.

On June 27, 1973, Bordaberry dissolved Congress, suspended the Constitution and gave the military and police the power to take whatever measures it deemed necessary to restore order.

For the next three years, he ruled by decree with the assistance of a National Security Council ("COSENA").

There were several important public figures in his cabinet.

During the first, democratic years, Julio María Sanguinetti, José Antonio Mora, Luis Barrios Tassano, Pablo Purriel; later, during the dictatorial period, Alejandro Végh Villegas, Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé, Walter Ravenna, Néstor Bolentini.

Gradually, Bordaberry became even more authoritarian than his military partners.

1976

In June 1976, he proposed a new, corporatist constitution that would have permanently shuttered the parties and codified a permanent role for the military.

This was further than even the military wanted to go, and it forced him to resign.

Bordaberry then returned to his ranch.

Bordaberry and his wife, Josefina Herrán, had nine children.

One of Bordaberry's sons, Pedro Bordaberry, was Minister for Tourism and Industry in the government of Jorge Batlle.

Another son, Santiago, is a rural affairs activist.

He was arrested in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators, Senator Zelmar Michelini of the Christian Democratic Party and House leader Héctor Gutiérrez of the National Party.

The assassinations took place in Buenos Aires but the prosecution argued they had been part of Operation Condor, in which the military regimes of Uruguay and Argentina coordinated actions against dissidents.

1985

Timbal ruled that since the killings took place outside Uruguay, they were not covered by an amnesty enacted after the return of civilian rule in 1985.

2006

On 17 November 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.

On 17 November 2006, following an order by judge Roberto Timbal, Bordaberry was placed under arrest along with his former foreign minister Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé.

2007

On 23 January 2007, he was hospitalized in Montevideo with serious respiratory problems.

Because of his health problems the judge Paublo Eguern ordered that Bordaberry be transferred to house arrest.

From 27 January he served his prison term in the house of one of his sons in Montevideo.

On 1 June 2007, an Appellate Court confirmed the continuation of the case of the murders of Michelini and Gutiérrez Ruiz.

On 10 September 2007, another Appellate Court opened a new case to be tried by Judge Gatti for 10 homicides, for violations of the constitution.