The Instituto Cuesta Duarte (full name: Instituto Gerardo Cuesta León Duarte,

acronym An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase. Acronyms are often spelled with the initial Letter (alphabet), letter of each wor ...

ICUDU) is a

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in the framework of the

Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...

trade unionism A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...

. Established in 1989 by the initiative of PIT-CNT, it is a

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devoted to

labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

research, information, diffusion and training. It is led by union leader Milton Castellano. The institution bears the names of Gerardo Cuesta, a Communist trade unionist who died in 1981, and

León Duarte León Gualberto Duarte Luján (1928 – 1976) was a Uruguayan trade unionist and the leader of the ''Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo''. He disappeared in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buen ...

, an Anarchist trade unionist that disappeared in 1976, both during the

civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–1985), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the 1973 coup d'état) until March 1, 1985 ...

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