On Wednesday, Uruguay’s Chamber of Representatives approved a bill seeking to designate December 11 as Carlos Gardel’s Birthday; the initiative will now move to the Senate to continue the legislative process.
After being approved by the Lower House’s Education and Culture Committee, the bill went to the full chamber, where it received unanimous support from the 82 deputies present.
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The initiative consists of two articles: the first establishes December 11 of each year as “Carlos Gardel’s Birthday,” in recognition of official Uruguayan state documentation recording his birth in the department of Tacuarembó on December 11, 1887.
The second article declares any commemorative activity regarding the singer-songwriter’s birthday held within Uruguayan territory to be of cultural interest.
In his statement of purpose, Frente Amplio representative Gustavo Guerrero noted that the bill’s fundamental aim is for Parliament to recognize the heritage and identity value that the figure of Carlos Gardel represents for the Río de la Plata region, and particularly for Uruguay.
The lawmaker highlighted a document found in Uruguay last year: “The discovery made on November 28, 2025, by the ‘Gardel Rioplatense’ Commission of the Fans de la Música Foundation—located in the Historical Diplomatic Archive of Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs—is definitive.”
Guerrero explained that this book—which also lists more than a thousand compatriots who completed the same procedure between January 1915 and mid-1924—contains the record of his declaration stating that he was born in the department of Tacuarembó on December 11, 1887.
The congressman added that this registration, now documented via a notarial deed and entered into the Civil Registry, holds great historical and legal significance, as the previously undocumented Carlos Gardel was officially registered by the Uruguayan State.
For his part, fellow Broad Front (Frente Amplio) representative Pablo Inthamoussu remarked that approving the bill is not an attempt to create a rift with the Argentine people, but quite the opposite. As was rightly noted, it was Carlos Gardel’s wish to retain his nationality while—naturally—also embracing Argentine nationality. That Buenos Aires to which he sang so often. A singer who was deeply *Rioplatense*, the legislator emphasized.
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