Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Fabregat.
Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat
Rodríguez Fabregat in 1947
Born
Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat

(1895-11-11)11 November 1895
San José de Mayo, Uruguay
Died19 November 1976(1976-11-19) (aged 81)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupations
  • Politician
  • journalist
  • diplomat
Political party

Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat (11 November 1895 – 19 November 1976) was a Uruguayan politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Public Instruction from 1927 to 1929, and later as Uruguay's delegate to the United Nations, taking part in its Special Committee on Palestine in 1947, where he played a prominent role in supporting the partition plan that led to the establishment of the State of Israel.[1]

Biography

Rodríguez Fabregat born on 11 November 1885 in San José de Mayo, the son of Enrique Rodríguez and María Fabregat.[2] He obtained a diploma as a teacher of public instruction before beginning his career in education and public service.[3]

A member of the Batllist faction of the Colorado Party, he was appointed Minister of Public Instruction in 1927 during the presidency of José Batlle y Ordóñez within the National Council of Administration.[4] Following the establishment of Gabriel Terra’s dictatorship, he went into exile, living in several South American countries and teaching in Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, and the United States. During this period, he also collaborated with the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral to draft the Decalogue of the Rights of the Child.[5][6]

From 1946 to 1961, he served as Uruguay's ambassador to the United Nations.[7] In this capacity, he was a member of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, which visited the region and proposed the Partition Plan.[8] During the committee's deliberations, Fabregat highlighted the connection between the situation in the Land of Israel and the plight of Jewish refugees following World War II. On 29 November 1947, during the vote on the Partition Plan, he responded to a request from the representative of the Zionist delegation, Abba Eban, and, together with Guatemalan Ambassador Jorge García Granados, coordinated the other Latin American ambassadors into a crucial voting bloc in favor of the plan, without which it might not have passed.[9]

In 1965, he endorsed Amílcar Vasconcellos in the internal elections of the electoral list Lista 15, who was defeated by Jorge Batlle.[10] The following year, he supported the presidential ticket of Óscar Diego Gestido and Jorge Pacheco Areco in the general election. In 1970, he left the Colorado Party and joined a group of its members who went on to found the Broad Front.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Memorias de Rodríguez Fabregat: el legado uruguayo en la creación de Israel - Universidad ORT Uruguay". www.ort.edu.uy. Archived from the original on 2025-09-08. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  2. ^ Scarone, Arturo (1937) (1937). Uruguayos contemporáneos [Contemporary Uruguayans] (in Spanish) (2nd ed.). Montevideo: Casa A. Barreíro y Ramos S. A. p. 425.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Tributo a un docente, diplomático y escritor". EL PAIS. 2004-09-05. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  4. ^ Kohn, Eduardo (2020-10-03). "El acento en lo esencial". EL PAIS. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  5. ^ "Acta 1128: acto previo sin quórum de la Sesión Ordinaria de la Junta Departamental de Montevideo, correspondiente al veinticindo de marzo del año dos mil cuatro". Junta Departamental de Montevideo. 2004-03-25.
  6. ^ "TABLA DE LOS DERECHOS DEL NIÑO – 1927" (PDF). Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes.
  7. ^ "Dos capítulos de un memorable manuscrito del demócrata uruguayo Rodríguez Fabregat". ynetespanol (in Spanish). 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  8. ^ "Ed. N° 27: Un «paladín vigoroso»: El uruguayo Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat – Congreso Judío Latinoamericano" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  9. ^ "Un "paladín vigoroso": El uruguayo Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat y su apoyo a la causa del Estado de Israel – Kehila" (in Spanish). 2021-11-19. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  10. ^ "Herrera y Batlle en la prehistoria de las internas". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-10-26.
  11. ^ "Enrique Rodríguez Fabregat". LARED21 (in Spanish). 2007-04-19. Retrieved 2025-10-26.
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