Alejandro Luis Mariano Rovira de los Santos | |
Office: | Minister of the Interior of Uruguay |
Predecessor: | Danilo Sena |
Successor: | Walter Ravenna |
Office2: | Uruguayan Ambassador to Israel of Uruguay to Israel |
Predecessor2: | Yamandú Laguarda Fernández |
Successor2: | Bautista Salvador Etcheverry Boggio |
Office3: | Minister of Foreign Relations of Uruguay |
Predecessor3: | Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé |
Successor3: | Adolfo Folle Martínez |
Birth Date: | 30 April 1917 |
Death Place: | Punta Ballena |
Father: | José María Genaro Rovira Hernández (1882–1962), concejal departamental de Colonia por el Partido Colorado |
Mother: | Eva Isidora de los Santos (1881–1955) daughter of Emirene González Suárez (1863–1945) and Francisco Donato de los Santos Morales (1852–1911), Secretario de la Junta Departamental de Colonia, de filiación blanca. |
Spouse: | Isabel de Rovira († 1976 in Jerusalem)[1] |
Alejandro Luis Mariano Rovira de los Santos (1917 - 1991) was an Uruguayan politician and diplomat.He served as a Deputy Prosecutor of the Police, the Interventor of the Immigration Police, Deputy Undersecretary of the Interior, and as a Director of the National Civil Service Office.
Mr. Rovira operated as an agent for the Czech intelligence agency (STB) under the codename "Veslar". Rovira was one of the 20 collaborators the agency had in Uruguay during the Coldwar and provided the agency with sensible material about the military, the police as well as facilitated visa arrangements for other collaborators while at the Ministry of the Interior. According to the files released by the Czech agency and discovered by researchers Vladimír Petrilák and Mauro Abranches Kraenski, Rovira was one of the most valuable contacts of the agency, as well as he was considered by agents as an "extreme right wing" character.[8]