Your input will affect cover photo selection, along with input from other users. Flores was President of Uruguay from to interim and from to He served as interim President of Uruguay and remained in power until Aug. Bustamante, which resulted in civil war and Flores taking refuge in Argentina. In , he started a rebellion Cruzada Libertadora or Crusade of the Liberator against the Blanco president Bernardo Berro , which led to civil war in Uruguay.
He established a provisional government, a term used to disguise his personal dictatorship. Although the Uruguayan Colorado Party has the reputation of being progressive and democratic, Flores and other Colorado Party leaders of the 19th century, and many prominent 20th century Colorado leaders, collectively demonstrated by their actions that they were comfortable with rule by decree, with power not unusually concentrated in very few people.
Four days after stepping down as President, he was murdered by a group of unidentified assassins. But although Flores' killers were not formally identified, it may be added that as a background to his assassination is the intermittent Uruguayan Civil War which continued throughout much of the 19th century between Colorados and Blancos. More broadly, his period of office continued a tendency already present among at least some Colorado presidents but surviving virtually to contemporary times, for the national leadership under that party to be nominally liberal in doctrine but actually highly authoritarian.
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