Baltasar Brum ( Spanish Baltasar Brum , June 18, 1883 - March 31, 1933 ) - President of Uruguay from 1919 to 1923 .
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| Predecessor | Feliciano Viera | ||||||
| Successor | Jose serrato | ||||||
| Birth | June 18, 1883  Artigas | ||||||
| Death | March 31, 1933 (49 years) Montevideo , Uruguay | ||||||
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Biography
Born June 18, 1883 in the city of Artigas . Companion José Batlle-and-Ordonez , in 1913-1915 - Minister of Education under his presidency. From 1915 - Minister of the Interior, then Foreign Minister under President Feliciano Viera .
He advanced the alternative “ Monroe Doctrine ” “Broome Doctrine” (1920) - the project “League of American Countries”, designed to unite all Latin American countries and the United States in case of aggression by non-American states, but never realized due to disagreement of Washington.
In 1927-1928 he headed the Mortgage Bank of Uruguay .
On March 31, 1933, in protest against the dictatorship established by Gabriel Terra, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the middle of a street in Montevideo with the words “Long live freedom! Long live the Batlle! ”