Serenyi, Liber

Born into a working-class family in the suburbs of Montevideo . He graduated from the Brazilian School ( Escuela Brasil ) and a military school. Since 1931, in the army, since 1933, lieutenant. In 1937 he was arrested for participating in a demonstration in support of the Spanish Republic .

From the beginning of the 1930s he participated in the political life of the country, was a member of the party of Colorado

He served in the garrisons of Montevideo , worked in the military topographic services of the country's armed forces (has the qualification of a surveyor), specialized in astronomy, studied astrophysics at the Tonantsintl observatory (Mexico).

He was an assistant military attache of Uruguay in Mexico.
In 1949 he graduated from the courses of the General Staff of Mexico and until the mid-1960s, while serving in the armed forces, taught at the higher military educational institutions of Uruguay, held the posts of deputy chief of staff of the ground forces and chief of the general inspection of the army. Since 1958, Colonel. He worked as a military attache in the embassies of Uruguay in Mexico and the USA.

He organized the evacuation of the city of Paso de los Toros during the severe flood of 1959 .

In 1963 he was awarded the rank of general, appointed commander of the 2nd military district ( department of San Jose ), then - commander of the 1st military district ( department of Montevideo ).

In 1968, he resigned in disagreement with the policy of repression and violation of constitutional rights pursued by the regime, as well as corruption.

In 1971, he left the party of Colorado , participated in the creation of the left political movement Wide Front (SF) and became one of its leaders.
In the same year he was nominated as a candidate for president. When voting took 1st place in the capital. In the midst of mass fraud, he received 18.3% of the vote (3rd place).

In July 1973 he was arrested, kept in prison, released in bail in 1974 , was under house arrest, and was stripped of the rank of general. In 1976 he was again arrested, was in the prison of the city of Maldonado, in 1978 was sentenced to 14 years in prison on charges of incitement to rebellion and treason. At the time of imprisonment he gained wide international fame.

He was released from prison after the restoration of democracy in the country, March 19, 1984 .

In 1987, he was elected president of the Chess Federation, and was nominated as a candidate for president in the 1989 elections . In the elections, he received 20.35% of the vote (2nd place, with the winner, Luis Lacalle , 21.63%). Being a moderately left politician, not always understood and supported by associates, he often tried to act as a unifying and conciliatory side.

February 5, 1996 resigned as president of the Chess Federation. In the same year he founded the "Center for Strategic Studies 1815".

In 2003 , during the 4th congress of the FSH, he announced his retirement from active politics. In 2004, he dismissed the Center for Strategic Studies 1815 and delivered his last speech, which is considered his political testament.

He died 3 months before the victory of the Chess Federation and its candidate Tabare Vazquez in the parliamentary and presidential elections. Buried with all state honors.

In 1983, he was elected an honorary citizen of Rio de Janeiro . Laureate of the International Lenin Prize "For the consolidation of peace between peoples" for 1980-1982.

Wife - Lily Lireno (since 1941), 2 daughters.

• Wide front

• Who is who in world politics / Ed. ed. L.P. Kravchenko . - M .: Politizdat , 1990 .-- S. 402.
• Frente Amplio: Gral. Líber seregni
• Vertiente Artiguista: El legado de Seregni
• Sitio de la Presidencia de la República con resúmenes de palabras de homenaje al cumplirse un año de su fallecimiento