Brum Baltasar [1880s-1950s]

Description: This envelope contains two envelopes with newspapers’ and magazines’ articles and clippings, and photographs on Baltasar Brum Rodríguez (1883 – 1933). He was an Uruguayan liberal politician who served as Minister of Education, Interior Minister, Foreign Minister, and, ultimately, President of Uruguay (1919 to 1923). He became a polemic figure due to his support to the military “delegation” from the US to Argentina—the former wanted to threat and, thus, change the latter’s neutrality during the First World War. His alliance to the US was also criticised in Uruguay where he was doubly opposed by his opponents, the Partido Colorado, and his own political party, the Partido Blanco. Brum was also known as an enthusiast historian of his nation’s traditions. But his life and fame changed when he committed public suicide against President Gabriel Tera’s de facto dictatorship in 1933. Extent of original: Envelope. Condition of original: Regular to bad condition.