Hugo Cores

Hugo Cores was an influential Uruguayan political activist and libertarian socialist.

He was born in Argentina and moved to Uruguay during his childhood. ^[1] He founded Partido por la Victoria del Pueblo in 1975, in exile in Buenos Aires, during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay. Within three years, almost all of the 100 people involved in founding the party were assassinated or “disappeared”, following the repression unleashed by the 1976 Argentine coup d'état. After being imprisoned, Cores escaped into exile in France and then Brazil, where he set about reorganizing the PVP, now a major source of information on human rights violations in Uruguay.^[1] In exile, Cores worked for the re-establishment of democratic rule in Uruguay.^[1]

Cores joined the Broad Front in 1984. After the dictatorship, President Tabaré Vázquez appointed Cores political secretary of the Broad Front.^[2] He served as political secretary from 1989 to 1993.^[1] Hugo Cores died of a heart attack at the age of 69 in Montevideo, in 2007.^[1]