Guillermo Chifflet

Guillermo Chifflet (26 September 1926 – 26 April 2020) was a Uruguayan politician, writer, and journalist who served as a Representative and co-founded the Broad Front.^[1]

Guillermo Chifflet Zerboni
Guillermo Chifflet during the presentation of a book written about him, 2011
National Representative
In office 3 March 1989 – 2 December 2005
Constituency	Montevideo
Personal details
Born	(1926-09-26)26 September 1926 Montevideo, Uruguay
Died	26 April 2020(2020-04-26) (aged 93) Montevideo, Uruguay
Political party	Broad Front Socialist Party
Spouse	Julia Amoretti ​ ​ (m. 1967; died 2020)​
Children	Michelle and Amelie
Occupation	Politician, writer, and journalist

Biography

Guillermo Chifflet Zerboni was born on September 15, 1926 in Montevideo, Uruguay. His father, Enrique Chifflet, was a dentist.^[2]

Chifflet married Julia Amoretti, a Uruguayan radio, television, and theater actress, on December 21, 1967; he was 41 years old and she was 32 years old.^[2] They had two daughters, Michelle and Amelie.

Career

As a journalist, Guillermo Chifflet worked at the Uruguayan newspapers Época and Hechos, and the weeklies Marcha, Brecha, and El Sol (of which he was Editor in Chief).^[3]

Guillermo Chifflet was one of the founders of the Broad Front in 1971.^[4] He was first elected to Chamber of Representatives in 1989, as a member of the Socialist Party. He was subsequently re-elected in 1994, 1999 and 2004.^[3] In December 2005, he resigned from his seat as a representative after legislators of the ruling Broad Front party voted to keep Uruguayan troops in the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).^[5]