Eduardo Bonomi

Edison Eduardo Bonomi Varela (14 October 1948 – 20 February 2022) was a Uruguayan guerrilla member and politician of the Movement of Popular Participation – Broad Front.

In 1969 he enrolled at the Veterinary Faculty of the University of the Republic where he could only attend up to the fourth year, since in 1972 he was taken to prison for belonging to the MLN-Tupamaros.

In the early 1990s the company became Cooperativa Promopes, a workers' cooperative, which in 1997 was brought up for public auction by its main creditor, Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay.

In March 2005, after President Tabaré Vázquez took office, he was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Welfare.

In 2009, he resigned his position to serve as Campaign Manager for José Mujica for the general election of that year.