Eduardo Rodríguez Larreta

Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta (11 December 1888 – 15 August 1973)[1] was a journalist and Uruguayan foreign minister in the 1940s.[2][3]

Noted achievements

Mr Rodríguez formulated what is sometimes called the "Larreta Doctrine," which said nations of the Americas could "consider multilateral action against any member state violating elementary human rights."[4] Rodríguez Larreta argued that there a "parallelism" between democratic practice and respect for human rights in domestic politics and the maintenance of peace in the Americas. The proposal was advanced in a series of diplomatic notes in late 1945 and early 1946 for possible inclusion in the agendas of upcoming postwar inter-American conferences, including the Rio Conference that produced the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance. The proposal drew on Latin American traditions of popular sovereignty and international jurisprudence. Long and Friedman describe the Larreta doctrine as, "a tripartite precommitment mechanism to create a web of national commitments to democratic governance and the domestic protection of human rights, to establish a regional insurance policy against failures to maintain those commitments, and to obligate the great power and neighboring states to precommit to working through the regional system instead of unilaterally."[5] The "doctrine" was controversial, with Argentine Foreign Minister es:Juan Isaac Cooke and others, criticizing it as going against non-interventionism.[6] The proposal was also opposed by Brazil and Mexico, though it garnered support from the United States, Guatemala, and Cuba.[7]

Foreign Minister of Uruguay

He served as Foreign Minister of Uruguay from 1945 until 1947, in the government of President of Uruguay Juan José de Amézaga.

Founding Co-editor of El País

Rodriguez Larreta also served as a founding editor of El País[8] and received the Maria Moors Cabot prize in 1949.[9]

See also

References
  1. Brief biography in El País (Spanish)
  2. Charles. Ameringer (1 November 2010). Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946-1950. Penn State Press. pp. 8, 16, 17, 26. ISBN 978-0-271-04218-3.
  3. Tom J. Farer (29 May 1996). Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Americas. JHU Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-8018-5166-7.
  4. Stephen G. Rabe (1988). Eisenhower and Latin America: The Foreign Policy of Anticommunism. UNC Press Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-8078-4204-1.
  5. Long, Tom; Friedman, Max Paul (2019-09-05). "The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (4): 1088–1103. doi:10.1017/S1537592719002676. ISSN 1537-5927.
  6. Alberto Ciria (1974). Parties and Power in Modern Argentina 1930-1946. SUNY Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-7914-9916-0.
  7. Long, Tom; Friedman, Max Paul (2019-09-05). "The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine". Perspectives on Politics. 18 (4): 1088–1103. doi:10.1017/S1537592719002676. ISSN 1537-5927.
  8. Göran G. Lindahl (1962). Uruguay's new path: a study in politics during the first colegiado, 1919-33. Library and Institute of Ibero-American Studies.
  9. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism list of Cabot Prize winners by name (PDF) Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine


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