Armando Castaingdebat
Armando Castaingdebat | |
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| Minister of National Defense of Uruguay | |
| In office 4 March 2024 – 1 March 2025 | |
| President | Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou |
| Preceded by | Javier García Duchini |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Lazo |
| Deputy Minister of Social Development of Uruguay | |
| In office 1 March 2020 – 3 May 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Ana Olivera |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Brugman |
| Representative of Uruguay for Flores | |
| In office 15 February 2015 – 15 February 2020 | |
| Intendant of Flores | |
| In office 8 July 2010 – 26 July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Gerardo Sánchez Listur |
| Succeeded by | Beatriz Ríos |
| In office 7 July 2005 – 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Mazzulo |
| Succeeded by | Gerardo Sánchez Listur |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 October 1959 Trinidad, Uruguay |
| Political party | National Party |
| Alma mater | University of the Republic |
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Armando Irineo Castaingdebat Colombo (born 25 October 1959) is a Uruguayan politician who served as Minister of National Defense from March 4, 2024 to March 1, 2025 under President Luis Lacalle Pou. A member of the National Party, he previously served as Deputy Minister of Social Development from 2020 to 2021, as National Representative from 2015 to 2020 and as Intendant of the Flores Department from 2005 to 2014.
Graduated from the University of the Republic with a veterinary medicine degree, he has been a member of the National Party since the late 1980s. A significant factor in his political career has been the sizeable agricultural interests which are present in the economic and labour-related life of Flores Department.