Gloria Rodríguez Santo

Gloria Rudi Rodríguez Santo (born 1960) is a Uruguayan journalist, civil servant, activist and politician of the National Party (PN), serving as Senator since 15 February 2020.[1] She is fourth in the line of presidential succession.[2]

Gloria Rodríguez
Senator of Uruguay
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
Melo, Uruguay
Political partyNational Party
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • politician

Biography

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.[3] In 1991, after divorcing, she moved to Montevideo with her children and great-grandmother. She settled in the barrio Malvín Norte.[4] 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.[3] She studied journalism at the Professional Institute of Journalism Teaching (IPEP).[5]

Political career and activism

Rodríguez began her militancy in the 90s, distributing ballots from List 71, of the Herrerism faction of the National Party in Malvín Norte.[5] During the 2002 Uruguay banking crisis, she set up a community soup kitchen, which fed 70 children in the area.[6] Since then she has been dedicated to community work in slums.[7]

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.[8][9] 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.[6] 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.[10] She stated "we have to work a lot so that the fact that a black woman reaches Parliament does not surprise anyone".[11]

References
  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 Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  2. "Así quedó conformado el nuevo Senado: mirá la lista de los 30 elegidos". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  3. Observador, El. "¿Quién es Gloria Rodríguez, la primera afrodescendiente en llegar al Senado?". El Observador. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  4. "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.
  5. "Las 40 de la diputada Gloria Rodríguez: "La nuestra es una sociedad sumamente racista"". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  6. 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 Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  7. 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.
  8. "Conozca las nuevas caras del Parlamento". Teledoce.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  9. "Parlamento uruguayo tendrá primera mujer negra, pero persisten desigualdades". El Comercio. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  10. "Gloria Rodríguez: "Mi llegada al Senado me permite poner en el tapete el tema del racismo"". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  11. ""Por primera vez una mujer negra llegó al senado" destacó Gloria Rodríguez". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
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