Eduardo Bonomi

Born in Montevideo, Bonomi attended primary at public school No. 81 and secondary at the public high school in Barrio Malvín in Montevideo. In 1969 he enrolled at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of the Republic where he could only attend up to the fourth year, since in 1972 he was taken to prison for belonging to the MLN-Tupamaros. He was released in March 1985 and was a book seller and, in May 1985, he started working at the Promopes fishing company. In the early 1990s the company became Cooperativa Promopes, a workers' cooperative, which in 1997 was brought up for public auction by its main creditor, Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay.

Bonomi joined the MLN-Tupamaros in 1970. In June 1972 he went underground. He was arrested on July 21 of that year. After being released, in 1985, he returned to political and social militancy and from 1987 he joined the MLN-T Central Committee. He was one of the co-founders of the Movement of Popular Participacion (MPP).

In March 2005, after President Tabaré Vázquez took office, he was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Welfare. In 2009, he resigned his position to serve as Campaign Manager for José Mujica for the general election of that year. He served as Minister of the Interior in the administration of José Mujica (2010-2015)^[4] and that of Tabaré Vázquez (2015-2020).^[5]

In the 2019 general election, he was elected Senator of the Republic for the 49th Legislature, a position he accessed on February 15, 2020.^[6]

Bonomi died of cardiac arrest on 20 February 2022, at the age of 73.^[7]

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