
Uruguay Recent History
Return to democracy The 30 of November of 1980 the citizenship rejects the draft constitutional reform proposed by the dictatorial regime, ushering in a slow process of political opening. On 1 September as as 1981 assumes the presidency the general Gregorio Alvarez, who in 1984 called elections, albeit with citizens and political parties banned. After being held that same year, the Colorado Party emerged triumphant. During the first days of 1985 Álvarez left the command in the hands of the President of the Supreme Court of Justice in office, Rafael Addiego Bruno and, finally, on March 1, 1985 the government returned to civilians with the assumption of Julio María Sanguinetti as President. In an agreement to leave the past behind and return in peace to the Party system, the majority political parties agreed to vote an amnesty law that extinguished all crimes committed as of January 1, 1962 in relation…