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Carlos Reyles

Died in 1938

Carlos Reyles was born on 30 October 1868 in Montevideo, into a family of large landowners, and inherited from his father an estate of about 130,000 cuadras. A pupil at the Colegio Hispano-Uruguayo, he married Antonia Hierro, a singer in a zarzuela company, then lived for many years in France, England and Spain; the couple separated in 1906. A rancher committed to the modernisation of the countryside, he founded the Rural Federation in 1915. Ruined, he entered the university in 1932 and in 1936 directed the national broadcasting service. He died in Montevideo on 24 July 1938.

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