Leandro Alem
Leandro Niceforo Alem was an Argentine politician, born in Buenos Aires, a founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. Alem was the uncle and political teacher of Hipolito Yrigoyen.
Alem was elected diputado (representative) for the provincial legislature of Buenos Aires in 1871, and in 1874 he went on to become a national representative, and then a senator. He opposed the federalization of the city of Buenos Aires required by the Constitution. When it was passed by the legislature, he resigned and became the intellectual leader of a group of discontents that sought to produce changes in Argentine politics (known as the people of the "1880s Generation"). In 1877 he and his friend Aristobulo del Valle founded the Republican Party.
In 1889, Argentina was within a deep political and economic crisis, worsened by the corruption and abuse of power of President Miguel Juarez Celman. In this context, Alem organized the Youth Civic Union, from which the Radical Civic Union (UCR) would emerge . In July 1890 Alem was one of the leaders of the revolution that forced Juarez Celman to resign. When Vice-President Carlos Pellegrini took charge in his stead, Alem renewed his opposition, lending support to uprisings against the national government in the provinces.
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