Emilio Frugoni

Frugoni on the book cover of his collected works

Dr. Emilio Frugoni (born March 30, 1880 in Montevideo , † August 28, 1969 ) was a Uruguayan politician, lawyer, poet, essayist and journalist. He is the founder of the Partido Socialista del Uruguay and was its first member of the House of Representatives .

Life

Past activities

Born in 1880 as one of four children of Domingo Frugoni and Josefina Queirolo , Frugoni joined José Batlle y Ordóñez during the civil war and achieved the rank of lieutenant. In December 1904 he wrote his Profesión de fe socialista , which was published in the El Día newspaper . This article gave the impetus to found the Partido Socialista del Uruguay . The PSU was founded in 1910.

Opposition to the dictatorship

In 1920 the PSU was renamed the Partido Comunista de Uruguay (PCU) (in German: Communist Party of Uruguay) at a congress . Frugoni rejected communism and re-founded the PSU as an anti-communist party. In the 1928 elections, the PCU received 3,911 votes and the PSU 2,931. He came into opposition to the dictator Gabriel Terra , was imprisoned and then went into exile. In 1942 he became Uruguayan envoy to the Soviet Union , but resigned from this post in 1946 and returned to Montevideo after harshly criticizing Soviet policy.

Movimiento Socialista

In January 1963, Frugoni fell out with his party and founded the Movimiento Socialista party , with which he ran for the 1966 elections. After his death the Movimiento Socialista entered into a close alliance with the PSU and is now part of the ruling Frente Amplio .

Works

• La Esfinge Roja
• Génesis, esencia y fundamentos del socialismo
• Las tres dimensiones de la democracia
• De Montevideo a Moscú
• Poemas Montevideanos
• La Elegia Unánime, Editorial Losada, SA, Buenos Aires 1942
• Ensayos sobre el Marxismo
• La revolución del machete

Web links

• Partido Socialista del Uruguay (in Spanish)
• Movimiento Socialista (in Spanish)