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Irma Avegno
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 1913
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| Born
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1881-12-20
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20 December 1881
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| Died
| June 1913 (aged 31)
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| Resting place
| Central Cemetery of Montevideo
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| Nationality
| Uruguayan
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| Occupation
| Businesswoman
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Irma Avegno
(20 December 1881 ? June 1913) was a Uruguayan woman of
Montevidean
high society who devoted herself to financial affairs.
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Biography
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Irma Avegno was the daughter of Emilio Avegno and Maria de Avila, according to her birth certificate. She belonged to a wealthy family linked to the land and, politically, to the
Colorado Party
. Her father was deputy of that party for
Artigas Department
, and her uncle, Dr. Jose Romeu, was Secretary of State, both during the second government of
Jose Batlle y Ordonez
.
She was considered in her own time as a liberal and transgressive person,
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since she dedicated herself to financial business (she was a
moneylender
) and to activities traditionally reserved for men, such as betting on horse races. Her openly stated
homosexual orientation
, which could only be recognized implicitly at the time, also contributed to that perception.
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Death
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Avegno died in strange circumstances in
Lomas de Zamora
,
Buenos Aires
Province,
Argentina
, as a fugitive from Uruguayan justice. The scandal unleashed by the debts that she left after escaping from the country sent a shockwave through the government of Batlle y Ordonez. The official cause of death was suicide.
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Her body was buried in the
Central Cemetery of Montevideo
, after having arrived on the steamer
Roma
, which was awaited by a crowd.
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