Alejandro Atchugarry

Alejandro Atchugarry
Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay
In office
24 July 2002 – 19 August 2003[1]
Preceded byAlberto Bensión
Succeeded byIsaac Alfie
Personal details
Born
Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi

31 July 1952
Montevideo, Uruguay
Died19 February 2017 (aged 64)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Political partyColorado
Alma materUniversity of the Republic
Professionlawyer

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'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]

  1. ^ "List of Uruguayan government ministers". Rulers.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  2. ^ Atchugarry and the crisis (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Atchugarry, ten years after the crisis Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Falleció Alejandro Atchugarry, artífice de la salida de la crisis del 2002 Archived 2017-02-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)