Antonio Mercader

Antonio Mercader (1944 - 29 January 2019) was a Uruguayan journalist, lawyer and politician, who twice served as Minister of Education and Culture, from 1992 to 1995, and again from 2000 to 2002.

In 1964 he began his journalistic career, working a few months in the newspaper La Mañana, to then go on to act as editor of El Diario.

In 1965 he traveled to Chile thanks to a scholarship resulting from an agreement between the Chilean Journalists Circle and the Uruguayan Press Association.

Militant in the ranks of Herrerismo, during the presidency of Luis Alberto Lacalle he was curator of the Uruguayan pavilion at the Universal Exposition of Seville, and then Minister of Education and Culture between 1992 and 1995.

Later, during the presidency of Jorge Batlle, he returned to occupy the same ministerial chair (2000-2002), accompanied in the undersecretary by José Carlos Cardoso Silva.