Alejandro Atchugarry | |
Order: | Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay |
Term Start: | 24 July 2002 |
Term End: | 19 August 2003[1] |
Predecessor: | Alberto Bensión |
Successor: | Isaac Alfie |
Birth Name: | Alejandro Víctor Washington Atchugarry Bonomi |
Birth Date: | 31 July 1952 |
Birth Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Death Date: | 19 February 2017 (aged 64) |
Death Place: | Montevideo, Uruguay |
Party: | Colorado |
Profession: | lawyer |
Alma Mater: | University of the Republic |
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]