Background
Manuel Baldomero Ugarte was born in San José de Flores, now part of the City of Buenos Aires, on 27 February 1875. His father was Floro Ugarte and his mother Sabina Rivero.
Manuel Baldomero Ugarte was born in San José de Flores, now part of the City of Buenos Aires, on 27 February 1875. His father was Floro Ugarte and his mother Sabina Rivero.
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
Manuel Ugarte spent all his life fighting for the unity of Latin America. Among Argentines at the time, he was doing the most for the political unification of the Spanish American continent. He began his public life alongside Lugones, Payró, Gerchunoff, Galvez and Ingenieros.
He founded Louisiana Revista Literaria, which, among others, published the works of Rubén Darío and Ricardo Jaimes Freyre.
During his journeys, he exchanged ideas and intellectual dialogue with important men in the political and cultural fields, attested in a profuse correspondence of marked historical interest kept in the Archivo General de la Nación at Buenos Aires. Rubén Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Delmira Agustini, R. Blanco Fombona, Henri Barbuse, Manuel Gálvez, Haya de la Torre, José Vasconscelos, Blanca Luz Brum, et cetera can be counted among his friends and correspondents.
General Perón named him ambassador to Mexico in 1946. He later served as ambassador to Nicaragua and Cuba.
These nominations, which came close to his death, were the only recognition he received in his country.
He lived many years in Paris. Nice, France; and Valparaíso, Chile. He died in Nice in 1951.
A street in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires is named after him.
His preaching (nationalist anti-imperialism and Hispanicism with socialist touches) was spread in the press throughout the Americas and Europe. Leader of the Socialist Party, he represented it in various congresses of the Socialist Second International organization at the beginning of the 20th century. When he left socialism, he was a fervent neutralist during World War I.