Alejandro Atchugarry

Alejandro Atchugarry
Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay
In office
24 July 2002 – 19 August 2003[1]
Preceded by Alberto Bensión
Succeeded by Isaac Alfie
Personal details
Born Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi
31 July 1952
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died 19 February 2017 (aged 64)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Political party Colorado
Alma mater University of the Republic
Profession lawyer

Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi (31 July 1952 in Montevideo – 19 February 2017 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician.

He was Minister of Economics and Finance during the most difficult period in Jorge Batlle Ibáñez's presidency, the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis,[2] with a widely acknowledged role in the solution of Uruguay's worst economic moment in a century.[3]

Atchugarry died of an aneurysm in Montevideo on 19 February 2017, aged 64.[4]

Bibliography

  • Paolillo, Claudio (2004). Con los días contados. Editorial Fin de Siglo. p. 430. ISBN 9789974493209.

References

  1. ↑ "List of Uruguayan government ministers". Rulers.org. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Atchugarry and the crisis (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ Atchugarry, ten years after the crisis (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ Falleció Alejandro Atchugarry, artífice de la salida de la crisis del 2002 (in Spanish)


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