Julio María Sanguinetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Julio María Sanguinetti

President of Uruguay

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1937

Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Profession: lawyer, politician, journalist

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo (born 6 January 1936 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan politician, lawyer and journalist, who served as President of Uruguay (from March 1985 until March 1990, and, again, from March 1995 until March 2000) for the Partido Colorado. A lawyer and journalist by profession, he was born into a middle-class family of Italian origin from Genoa.
He studied Law and Social Sciences at the University of Montevideo.
He received his law degree in 1961, and later combined his legal practice with work as a journalist.
He had already been writing for the press, first in the weekly Canelones and later, since 1955, as a columnist for Acción, a newspaper established by the then-President, Luis Batlle, for which he covered events such as the Cuban Revolution (1959) and carried on until the 1970s. Both media outlets were connected to the Colorado Political Party (Partido Colorado - PC), the historical liberal grouping where progressive and conservative sensitivities shared ground (a mixture of doctrines and styles that was frequently an obstacle to classifying it according to ideology) and which had as its rival the experienced National Party (PN) or Blancos ("Whites"), creating a 2-party system that dominated Uruguayan politics during its history, although on most occasions the governing force was the PC.