Juan Carlos Blanco Estradé (19 June 1934 – 22 August 2021)[1][2] was a Uruguayan lawyer and political figure.
His grandfather, Juan Carlos Blanco Fernández, was himself Uruguayan Foreign Minister in the 19th century.
In 2002 he received a sentence of imprisonment for the disappearance of activist Elena Quinteros in 1976, who had been kidnapped from the Venezuelan Embassy in Paraguy.
[3] In 2005 he was also indicted for the murders of the reporter Zelmar Michelini and politician Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz.
Subsequently, he served in the Senate from 1990 to 1995 and was regarded as being close politically with Jorge Pacheco Areco, a former President of Uruguay.