Gustavo Salle

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salle and the second or maternal family name is Lorier.
Gustavo Salle
Salle in 2019
National Representative
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 February 2025
ConstituencyMontevideo
Personal details
Born
Gustavo Alberto Salle Lorier

(1958-03-19) 19 March 1958 (age 66)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Political partySovereign Identity (since 2022)
Other political
affiliations
SpouseAlba Pereira
Children2
EducationUniversity of the Republic
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer

Gustavo Alberto Salle Lorier (born March 19, 1958) is a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who will serve as National Representative from February 15, 2025. Founder and leader of the Sovereign Identity party, he was a presidential candidate in the 2019 and 2024 general elections.

Graduated from the University of the Republic with a law degree, gained notoriety by filing criminal complaints against members of the Broad Front governments and for his activism against the installation of the UPM-Kymmene cellulose production plants in Uruguay.[1] Salle is widely known for his flamboyant personality, aggressive and anti-establishment rhetoric and embrace of conspiracy theories, including the New World Order, that of the so-called "kleptocorporatocracy" or government of the corporations and that of the Judeo-Masonic secret coalition.[2][3]

Salle Lorier was born in Montevideo on March 19, 1958, the youngest child of Ariel Salle, an administrative employee at a car importing company, and Esther Lorier, a schoolteacher.[4] His brother Carlos Salle was a professor at the Faculty of Dentistry before he died.[5] He was raised in the Sayago neighborhood in a middle-class family and attended public schools. His parents were supporters of the Colorado Party and campaigned for Battlism during the leadership of Luis Batlle Berres.[6]

In 1976 he enrolled at the University of the Republic and graduated with a law degree in 1982.[7] He gained notoriety for taking several legal actions and making outrageous accusations, such as that former president Tabaré Vázquez was a "CIA agent" and a request for the extradition of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for being the "ideologist" of Operation Condor.[8][9][10] He also filed charges against high-ranking politicians, such as Vice President Raúl Fernando Sendic, for "usurpation of a university degree" in 2016, as well as against other government officials during the Broad Front administrations for cases of corruption and mishandling of public funds.[11][12]

Activist and political career

In his youth, Salle supported the Broad Front, however after the party reached the presidency for the first time, he disaffiliated from it and had approaches to the Popular Assembly.[13]

In addition to his legal career, he has been an anti-imperialist and "anti-corporate" activist.[14] Since the announcement of the installation of a second cellulose pulp plant by the Finnish company UPM-Kymmene Oyj in Uruguay, Salle has staunchly opposed it.[15] In May 2019, he chained himself in Plaza Independencia in front of the Executive Tower, alleging that the contract that was signed was "null, criminal, and abusive, in addition to having a genocidal projection because it contaminates the water that we give them and they return contamination to us".[16]

Salle has been characterized by a radical, aggressive and anti-establishment discourse, even insulting some political leaders.[17] For several years, during official events in Florida for Independence Day attended by the president of the Republic and government officials, he has appeared with megaphones to protest and to interrupt the speeches.[18][19]

Personal life

Despite being raised Catholic, he is an atheist.[20]

Electoral history

Presidential

Election Office List Votes Ref.
Total % P.
2019 President of Uruguay Green Animalist Party 19,392 0.80% 9th
2024 Sovereign Identity 65,796 2.69 % 4th [21]

References

  1. ^ Universal, Radio (2019-05-17). "Salle se encadenó en la Plaza Independencia manifestándose en contra de UPM". 970 Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  2. ^ "La cleptocorporatocracia según Salle: "Soy político pero no voy a ser garrapata"". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  3. ^ ""Incentiva actos de odio" y "vende odio": comunidad judía repudió dichos de Gustavo Salle sobre Maldonado y el sionismo". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-01.
  4. ^ "La vida de Gustavo Salle, el sentirse "fundador del Frente Amplio" y sus ganas de ejercer un liderazgo político". delsol.uy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  5. ^ "Entrevista Prof. Dr. Carlos Salle Lorier" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-11-28. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  6. ^ "Gustavo Salle, el "antisistema" que llega al Parlamento para ser el "buchón" de los secretos de la "casta política"". Búsqueda (in Spanish). 2024-10-31. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  7. ^ "Salle rompió y quemó parte de su título de abogado; ¿cuáles son las consecuencias?". EL PAIS. 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  8. ^ "Tabaré Vázquez es un "agente de la CIA" para el penalista Salle". subrayado.com.uy (in Spanish). 2011-10-12. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  9. ^ "SALLE PIDE EXTRADICIÓN DE KISSINGER". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  10. ^ "Archivan pedido de extraditar a Kissinger". EL PAIS. 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  11. ^ "Marta Jara declara ante la Justicia por denuncia de Gustavo Salle sobre la regasificadora". Montevideo Portal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  12. ^ ""Sendic no presentó el título", dijo el abogado denunciante Gustavo Salle". EL PAIS. 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  13. ^ Israel, Sergio. "Gustavo Salle, el penalista que acusa al fiscal general de crear "una maquinaria de impunidad" y al presidente Vázquez de agente de la CIA". Búsqueda. Archived from the original on 2019-07-14.
  14. ^ "Gustavo Salle: "No soy un antisistema, soy un antipatologías del sistema"". Búsqueda (in Spanish). 2024-11-28. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  15. ^ "Entre Hospitale, un ataúd y "guardaespaldas": las horas de Salle encadenado por UPM". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  16. ^ Universal, Radio (2019-05-17). "Salle se encadenó en la Plaza Independencia manifestándose en contra de UPM". 970 Universal (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  17. ^ "Bufón con megáfono". EL PAIS (in Spanish). 2024-10-11. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  18. ^ "Lacalle Pou enfrenta a Salle y le pide que escuche el acto por la Independencia". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  19. ^ "Salle y activistas irrumpieron en acto en Florida al grito "Fuera UPM"". El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  20. ^ "Gustavo Salle, el penalista que acusa al fiscal general de crear "una maquinaria de impunidad" y al presidente Vázquez de agente de la CIA". Búsqueda (in Spanish). 2017-05-25. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  21. ^ Canelones, Hoy. "Con Gustavo Salle, que obtuvo el 2,69% de los votos y que asegura que su voto en el balotaje será anulado". HOY CANELONES (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-01.