Alejandro Luis Mariano Rovira de los Santos (1917 – 1991) was an Uruguayan politician and diplomat. He served as a Deputy Prosecutor of the Police, the Interventor of the Immigration Police, Deputy Undersecretary of the Interior, and as a Director of the National Civil Service Office.
Alejandro Luis Mariano Rovira de los Santos | |
|---|---|
| Minister of the Interior of Uruguay | |
| In office 1972–1972 | |
| Preceded by | Danilo Sena |
| Succeeded by | Walter Ravenna |
| Uruguayan Ambassador to Israel of  Uruguay to  Israel | |
| In office 1975 – December 23, 1976 | |
| Preceded by | Yamandú Laguarda Fernández |
| Succeeded by | Bautista Salvador Etcheverry Boggio |
| Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay | |
| In office December 23, 1976 – July 6, 1978 | |
| Preceded by | Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé |
| Succeeded by | Adolfo Folle Martínez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 30, 1917 |
| Died | 1991 (aged 73–74) Punta Ballena |
| Spouse | Isabel de Rovira († 1976 in Jerusalem)[1] |
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Career
edit- From 1951 to 1967 he was "Director de la Oficina de Migraciones" (Immigration to Uruguay).[2]
- In 1970 he was Representative for Montevideo, the Colorado Party (Uruguay) in the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay.
- In 1972 he was President of the State Railways Administration of Uruguay and minister of the Interior of Uruguay.[3]
- From 1975 to December 23, 1976 he was Ambassador in Jerusalem.[4]
- From December 23, 1976 to July 6, 1978 he was foreign minister of Uruguay and represented the government of Aparicio Méndez at the United Nations General Assembly[5][6]
Controversy and espionage during the Cold war
editMr. Rovira operated as an agent for the Czech intelligence agency (STB) under the codename "Veslar". Rovira was one of the 20 collaborators the agency had in Uruguay during the Coldwar and provided the agency with sensible material about the military, the police as well as facilitated visa arrangements for other collaborators while at the Ministry of the Interior. According to the files released by the Czech agency and discovered by researchers Vladimír Petrilák and Mauro Abranches Kraenski, Rovira was one of the most valuable contacts of the agency, as well as he was considered by agents as an "extreme right wing" character.[8]
Publications
edit- Subversion terrorism revolutionary war: the Uruguayan experience, Monte Video 1981, 29 pages.
References
edit- ^ Hispano americano. Tiempo. 1976. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
- ^ Seguí González, Luis y Alejandro Rovira. Contribución al estudio del derecho migratorio uruguayo. Montevideo: s.p., 1939
- ^ February 26, 1974, Aborted attempt to kidnap ex-Minister of Interior Alejandro Rovira: one guard killed, one wounded, one Tupamaro wounded and captured. James Kohl, John Litt - 1974 Urban guerrilla warfare in Latin America, p. 224
- ^ Visión: la revista latinoamericana, Casa Visión, 1982, p. 8
- ^ O.A.S. Panel Accuses Uruguay of Wide Abuses of Human Rights, JUNE 29, 1978 [1] Uruguay's representative, Alejandro Rovira, reiterated that Uruguay had always respected human rights and always respected human rights and always would do so in the future because of its tradition [2] La descripción sobre el aumento del poderío nuclear, con fines "Discurso pronunciado en la reciente reunión del desarme, en la ONU, por el entonces Ministro de RR EE. de Uruguay Embajador Alejandro Rovira
- ^ Hernán Carlos Lux-Wurm, Enrique Javier Yarza Rovira, Los Quirós: una antigua familia rioplatense, 2002–97 p. p. 32[3]
- ^ "Rovira, Alejandro | autores.uy". autores.uy. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
- ^ El País Vivian Trías y los otros espías de Praga