Background
He was the great-great-grandson of Aparicio Saravia, the prominent Uruguayan National (Blanco) Party and Civil War leader, who died following the Battle of Masoller in 1904, and who had a strong following in Cerro Largo.
He was the great-great-great nephew of Gumercindo Saravia, Civil War Leader in Rio Grande, Brazil, which borders on the Uruguayan Department of Cerro Largo, of which Villanueva Saravia served as the elected leader.
His mother committed suicide when he was a child.
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