Tabaré Viera Duarte
Minister of Tourism of Uruguay
Assumed office
23 August 2021
PresidentLuis Lacalle Pou
Preceded byGermán Cardoso
Senator of the Republic
In office
20 October 2020 – 23 August 2021
Preceded byJulio María Sanguinetti
Succeeded byRaúl Batlle Lamuraglia
Representative of Uruguay
for Rivera
In office
15 February 2010 – 15 February 2015
Intendant of Rivera
In office
2005–2009
Preceded byMaría Terrón
Succeeded byMarne Osorio
In office
13 July 2000 – 2005
Preceded byAsdrúbal Vázquez
Succeeded byMaría Terrón
President of the National Administration of Telecommunications
In office
1998–2000
Preceded byRicardo Lombardo
Succeeded byFernando Bracco
Personal details
Born (1955-04-07) 7 April 1955
Rivera, Uruguay
Political partyColorado Party
OccupationPolitician

Tabaré Viera Duarte (born 7 April 1955) is a Uruguayan politician of the Colorado Party (PC), serving as Minister of Tourism since August 23, 2021 under president Luis Lacalle Pou.[1][2]

Political career

He was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Representatives in the general election of 1984, in which he participated supporting Dr. Altivo Esteves to the Municipality of Rivera and Julio María Sanguinetti to the presidency of the Republic.[3] In the 1989 election he failed to be reelected, and during the Luis Alberto Lacalle administration he was part of the board of the State Sewage & Water Works (OSE) representing the Colorado Party.[4]

After the death of Altivo Esteves, Viera replaced him as the main leader of Foro Batllista in Rivera Department. He ran unsuccessfully for Intendant of Rivera in the 1994 elections, being defeated by Walter Riesgo of the Crusade 94 sector of his party.[5]

From 1995 to 1998, during the second presidency of Julio María Sanguinetti, he held the position of Vice President of the National Administration of Telecommunication (ANTEL), and after the resignation of Ricardo Lombardo to contest the presidential pre-candidacy of the Foro Batllista in 1998, assumed the presidency of the interim until February 2000. In the municipal elections of that year, he was elected Intendant of Rivera.[6]

In the 2004 presidential election, Viera was Guillermo Stirling's running mate. That year, the Colorado Party suffered the worst defeat in its history, obtaining just 10.36 percent of the vote.[7] In 2005 he ran again for the post of Intendant of Rivera, being elected for the second time, as the only candidate for his party in the country.[8]

In the 2009 presidential primaries, he supported the pre-candidacy of Luis Hierro López. Viera was the most voted in Rivera, the only department in which Pedro Bordaberry did not obtain a majority of the votes of the Colorado Party. In the general election he integrated the ballot of Propuesta Batllista, as the second candidate after José Amorín Batlle; and as the first candidate for the deputation of the sector of him by the Rivera Department, being elected and opting for the bench of senator.[9][10] In 2014 he lost his senatorial seat, but was elected National Representative.[11]

In June 2015, he created a new sector within the Colorado Party called Espacio Abierto ("Open Space"), also made up of the Intendant Marne Osorio and the National Representative for Montevideo Conrado Rodríguez.[12] He stated that he wanted to "bring together the Batllista movements of the Colorado Party."[13]

On October 23, 2020, he assumed the senatorial seat that belonged to Julio María Sanguinetti, who retired from politics.[14] On August 23, 2021, he took office as Minister of Tourism, after the resignation of Germán Cardoso.[15][16]

Minister of Tourism

Following the resignation of Germán Cardoso on August 20, 2021, Viera was announced as his successor on the 23rd by the general secretary of the Colorado Party, Julio María Sanguinetti.[17][18][19] One of his first actions as minister was to coordinate the gradual opening of the borders.[20]

References

  1. ↑ Observador, El. "Tabaré Viera es el nuevo ministro de Turismo tras la salida de Germán Cardoso". El Observador. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  2. ↑ ElPais. "Humo blanco: Tabaré Viera será el ministro de Turismo". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Tabaré Viera". Partido Colorado (in Spanish). 2016-04-24. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  4. ↑ Observador, El. "Tabaré Viera, el exintendente "conciliador" que estará al frente del Ministerio de Turismo". El Observador. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  5. ↑ "Falleció el exintendente de Rivera Walter Riesgo | Noticias Uruguay y el Mundo actualizadas - Diario EL PAIS Uruguay". 2016-10-01. Archived from the original on 2016-10-01. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  6. ↑ dice, Juan Torres (2021-08-24). "Tabaré Viera asumió como nuevo ministro de Turismo". Radiomundo En Perspectiva (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  7. ↑ Relea, Francesc (2004-10-31). "El Partido Colorado, ante el peor resultado de su historia". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  8. ↑ "Uruguay, Resultados Elecciones Departamentales 2005" (PDF).
  9. ↑ "Nuevo espacio batllista encabezado por José Amorín y Tabaré Viera". Diario NORTE (in European Spanish). 2009-07-15. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  10. ↑ "Unión de batllistas con Amorín y Viera - Diario EL PAIS - Montevideo - Uruguay". 2009-09-20. Archived from the original on 2009-09-20. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  11. ↑ "Tabaré Viera (Espacio Abierto): El Partido Colorado llegó a tener un discurso "mucho más herrerista que batllista"". Radiomundo En Perspectiva (in Spanish). 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  12. ↑ "Tabaré Viera (Espacio Abierto): El Partido Colorado llegó a tener un discurso "mucho más herrerista que batllista"". Radiomundo En Perspectiva (in Spanish). 2015-06-25. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  13. ↑ "Tabaré Viera (Espacio Abierto): Me propongo "conformar un gran paraguas" que reúna a los movimientos batllistas del Partido Colorado". Radiomundo En Perspectiva (in Spanish). 2017-07-13. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  14. ↑ ElPais. "Así fue la despedida de Sanguinetti y Mujica en el Senado". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  15. ↑ "Tabaré Viera becomes Uruguay's new Minister of Tourism". MercoPress. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  16. ↑ "Former Uruguayan Tourism minister forced to resign has many influential friends in the political system". MercoPress. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  17. ↑ ElPais. "Sanguinetti eligió a Tabaré Viera para Turismo y Lacalle Pou lo ratificó". Diario EL PAIS Uruguay (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  18. ↑ "Asumió el nuevo Ministro de Turismo Tabaré Viera". Ministerio de Turismo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  19. ↑ Canal. "Tabaré Viera explicó cuáles serán los ejes de su gestión". www.telenoche.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  20. ↑ Observador, El. "Tabaré Viera marca su impronta en Turismo y desanda estructura paralela de Cardoso". El Observador. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
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