Education and Academics
Ruben Cotelo was born in Montevideo. His father was a Galician immigrant, and his mother was from Uruguay. Ruben Cotelo first studied Art, then Law at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, and finally Journalism at the Indiana University (Bloomington) under Professor Floyd G. Arpan.
Although Ruben Cotelo did not teach formally, he participated in numerous lectures and conferences in Argentina, Mexico and the United States. In June 1989 he lectured on Uruguay’s Politics, Economy and Society at the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. In the 1990s he was advisor to Jorge Brovetto, then Chancellor of the Universidad de la Republica.
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