Biography

Tabaré Vázquez was born on January 17, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was married to María Auxiliadora Delgado. He died on December 6, 2020 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

He was born in a tin-roofed shack in a working-class neighborhood of Montevideo. As a young man, he sold newspapers and installed windows.

He earned high marks in medical school and chose to specialize in oncology after a sister, brother, and his father died of cancer. He opened a clinic in an impoverished neighborhood. He stayed active in his medical practice after becoming a public official, continuing to work one day a week even during his first term as president of Uruguay.

He was elected mayor of Montevideo, Uruguay in 1989. He became president of Uruguay starting in 2005.