Villanueva Saravia Pinto (September 16, 1964 – August 12, 1998) was a Uruguayan politician of the National Party, who served as intendant of Cerro Largo Department from 1995 to 1998.

[2] Coming from a political family, he was the great-great-grandson of Aparicio Saravia, a prominent caudillo of the National Party, who died following the Battle of Masoller in 1904, and who had a strong following in Cerro Largo.

[6] In 1990, at the age of 26, he was appointed vice president of the state-owned water utilities company Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE).

[7] In 1992 he began a campaign in his hometown, and in 1994 at the age of 30 he was elected Intendant of Cerro Largo Department, being the youngest departmental head of government in the country.

[10] Although the autopsy declared that the cause of death was suicide, different theories arose that maintained that it was a homicide, which were widely debated in the local media.