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
19721972
Preceded byDanilo Sena
Succeeded byWalter Ravenna
Uruguayan Ambassador to Israel
of  Uruguay
to  Israel
In office
1975 – December 23, 1976
Preceded byYamandú Laguarda Fernández
Succeeded byBautista Salvador Etcheverry Boggio
Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay
In office
December 23, 1976 – July 6, 1978
Preceded byJuan Carlos Blanco Estradé
Succeeded byAdolfo Folle Martínez
Personal details
Born(1917-04-30)April 30, 1917
Died1991 (aged 73–74)
Punta Ballena
SpouseIsabel de Rovira († 1976 in Jerusalem)[1]
Parents
  • José María Genaro Rovira Hernández (1882–1962), concejal departamental de Colonia por el Partido Colorado (father)
  • Eva Isidora de los Santos (1881–1955) daughter of Emirene González Suárez (1863–1945) and Francisco Donato de los Santos Morales (1852–1911), Secretario de la Junta Departamental de Colonia, de filiación blanca. (mother)

Career

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Controversy and espionage during the Cold war

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Mr. 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

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  • Subversion terrorism revolutionary war: the Uruguayan experience, Monte Video 1981, 29 pages.

References

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  1. ^ Hispano americano. Tiempo. 1976. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  2. ^ Seguí González, Luis y Alejandro Rovira. Contribución al estudio del derecho migratorio uruguayo. Montevideo: s.p., 1939
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Visión: la revista latinoamericana, Casa Visión, 1982, p. 8
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Hernán Carlos Lux-Wurm, Enrique Javier Yarza Rovira, Los Quirós: una antigua familia rioplatense, 2002–97 p. p. 32[3]
  7. ^ "Rovira, Alejandro | autores.uy". autores.uy. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  8. ^ El País Vivian Trías y los otros espías de Praga