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Gloria Rodríguez Santo

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Santo.
Gloria Rodríguez
Rodríguez in 2024
Senator of Uruguay
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 February 2020
Representative of Uruguay
for Montevideo
In office
15 February 2015 – 15 February 2020
Personal details
Born
Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo

(1960-10-26) 26 October 1960 (age 63)
Melo, Uruguay
Political partyNational Party
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • politician

Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo (born 26 October 1960) is a Uruguayan journalist, civil servant, activist and politician of the National Party (PN), serving as Senator of the Republic since 15 February 2020.[1] The first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat,[2] she is fourth in the line of presidential succession.[3]

Early and personal life

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Gloria Rodríguez was born in 1960 in Melo, Cerro Largo Department. Her father, was a policeman, and her mother, a domestic worker. Her parents knew Jorge Silveira Zabala, a leader of the National Party in Cerro Largo, who was the one who transmitted the ideology to her.[4] In 1991, after divorcing, she moved to Montevideo with her children and great-grandmother. She settled in the barrio Malvín Norte.[5] She worked as a secretary at the Colegio María Auxiliadora, as a shop assistant and as an official of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, and the Ministry of Education and Culture.[4] She studied journalism at the Professional Institute of Journalism Teaching (IPEP).[6]

Political career and activism

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Rodríguez began her militancy in the 90s, distributing ballots from List 71, of the Herrerism faction of the National Party in Malvín Norte.[6] During the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis, she set up a community soup kitchen, which fed 70 children in the area.[7] Since then she has been dedicated to community work in slums.[8]

She participated in the 2014 general election as a member of Todos, a faction led by Luis Lacalle Pou. She ran for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, being elected National Representative for the 48th Legislature.[9][10] She took office on February 15, 2015, becoming the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a seat in the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay.[7] In the 2019 election, she was elected Senator for the 49th Legislature. Thus she became the first Afro-Uruguayan woman to hold a senatorial seat in Uruguay.[11] She stated "we have to work a lot so that the fact that a black woman reaches Parliament does not surprise anyone".[12]

She introduced a bill to establish a new gender quota in Parliament. It sought to stipulate a parity system of alternating and sequential order of women and men on each electoral list for the Legislature.[13] It would have modified the Quota Law passed in 2009, which establishes that two out of three places on the list are allocated to one gender and the third to the other. The bill was rejected 15–14 by the Senate.[14]

In mid-September 2024, she announced her departure from Herrerismo and List 71.[15][16] Days later she joined the centrist sector D Centro, and confirmed that she would be Beatriz Argimón's substitute candidate on the List 5 electoral list.[17]

References

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  1. ^ Uruguay, Presidencia de la República Oriental del. "Asumieron diputados y senadores que ocuparán sus bancas durante los próximos cinco años - Presidencia de la República". Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  2. ^ ""Por primera vez una mujer negra llegó al senado" destacó Gloria Rodríguez". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
  3. ^ "Así quedó conformado el nuevo Senado: mirá la lista de los 30 elegidos". subrayado.com.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  4. ^ a b Observador, El. "¿Quién es Gloria Rodríguez, la primera afrodescendiente en llegar al Senado?". El Observador. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  5. ^ "Gloria Rodríguez: "Sé que molesta cuando digo que soy hija de la cuota"". Revista Galeria de Busqueda en Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  6. ^ a b "Las 40 de la diputada Gloria Rodríguez: "La nuestra es una sociedad sumamente racista"". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  7. ^ a b de 2019, Por Guillermo Pellegrino14 de Diciembre. "Gloria Rodríguez, primera senadora negra del Uruguay: "Voy a poner sobre el tapete el racismo en mi país"". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ periodista/belen-riguetti (2019-01-02). "Gloria Rodríguez: "La población negra no está representada" en el Parlamento". la diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  9. ^ "Conozca las nuevas caras del Parlamento". Teledoce.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  10. ^ "Parlamento uruguayo tendrá primera mujer negra, pero persisten desigualdades". El Comercio. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  11. ^ "Gloria Rodríguez: "Mi llegada al Senado me permite poner en el tapete el tema del racismo"". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  12. ^ ""Por primera vez una mujer negra llegó al senado" destacó Gloria Rodríguez". subrayado.com.uy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  13. ^ "Paridad de género en el Parlamento: Senado se apresta a votar proyecto de Gloria Rodríguez (PN) - Radiomundo En Perspectiva". enperspectiva.uy. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  14. ^ "Fracasa en el Senado proyecto de ley que promovía la participación política paritaria". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  15. ^ "El Herrerismo sufre otra baja: la senadora Gloria Rodríguez deja el sector y analiza su futuro". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 2024-09-18. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  16. ^ "Gloria Rodríguez anunció su alejamiento del Herrerismo y la Lista 71 por discrepancias internas". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). 2024-09-18. Retrieved 2024-09-22.
  17. ^ "Gloria Rodríguez oficializará su incorporación a lista de Beatriz Argimón este lunes en conferencia de prensa". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-09-22.
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