Domingo Bordaberry Elizondo (1889–1952) was a

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an lawyer and political figure.

Early career

Bordaberry was a lawyer by profession. He became a farm manager and subsequently a landowner.

Senator

Bordaberry served as a Senator under the sponsorship of the

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; he was regarded as one of its more conservative members, and also acted as somewhat of a bridge to the

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Party, being strongly identified, with the

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and others, with the defence of rural interests, and was particularly expert on livestock matters. He was particularly linked with the 'Riverista' current of opinion within the

, although his record for political cooperation reached much beyond that Party. With Nardone, he was also heavily involved in the development of radio broadcasting for rural

, as co-owner of

CX 4 Radio Rural CX 4 Radio Rural is a Uruguayan Spanish-language AM radio station that broadcasts from Montevideo. History Founded by Domingo Bordaberry, who was lawyer and landowner, the programs of this radio have always been devoted to livestock and agricult ...

Family background

Domingo Bordaberry was the son of Santiago Bordaberry Senior, a

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national from the

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. Domingo Bordaberry's son

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served with him in a prominent

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organization and later became

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in 1972. A grandson,

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, was to serve as a minister in the government of

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. Another grandson, Santiago Bordaberry, was to be prominent in Ruralist leadership.

Political heritage

Domingo Bordaberry may be said to have contributed to a distinct tendency within

an political culture in that he and his son

, standing apart somewhat from the

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-based political life, also succeeded by one means or another in garnering at least limited support from both of the formerly mutually antagonistic

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(Blanco) and

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parties. (This antagonism may be understood in the context of the intermittent Civil War which occurred throughout much of the 19th century.) The wide personal political support commanded in recent years by his grandson

, himself a former government minister, which reaches beyond the lately low poll percentages received by the formerly dominant

, is thus arguably not beyond the context of an apparent capacity to unify support from diverse parts of the

an party spectrum inherited in some measure from Domingo Bordaberry. The relevance of this capacity for cooperation, particularly for the second round of the more recent Presidential elections, between the National and Colorado Parties, has been made more acute by the greatly increased electoral support in recent years for the Frente Amplio grouping.

References

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Early career

Senator

Family background

Political heritage

See also

References