Lou Rinaldi (businessman)
Lou Rinaldi | |
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| United States Ambassador to Uruguay Nominee | |
| Assuming office TBD | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Heide B. Fulton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 14, 1954[1] Italy |
| Spouse | Lauretta Rinaldi |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | Work University of Uruguay |
Louis Rinaldi (born June 14, 1954) is an Uruguayan-American businessman. In December 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump named Rinaldi as his nominee for ambassador to Uruguay.[2]
Early life and career
[edit]Rinaldi was born in Italy but his family emigrated to Uruguay when he was four and a half years old where he lived with his six brothers and parents on a ranch in Colón, Lavalleja Department.[1] He graduated from the Work University of Uruguay as a mechanical turner.[1] He and his family emigrated to the United States when he was nineteen where he worked in construction in New York.[1]
In 1975, he started his own construction company known as Louis Rinaldi Inc.[1]
Ambassador nomination
[edit]In December 2024, then President-elect Donald Trump named Rinaldi as his nominee for ambassador to Uruguay.[2]
Personal life
[edit]He met his wife Lauretta in the 1970s with her being the one who taught him English.[1] In 2013, one of his four children died at the age of 28.[1]
Rinaldi frequently visits the country.[1] He is a supporter of Uruguayan soccer team Peñarol.[1] He lives with his wife in Westchester County, New York.[1]
Rinaldi met future President Donald Trump at a golf course in the summer of 1993 in which he said that he told Trump that he was only going to shake his hand because they shared the same birthday.[1]
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou called Rinaldi in June 2020 after he had played a golf match with Trump to greet him for his birthday.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Silva, Joaquín (January 12, 2019). "La historia del uruguayo que es íntimo amigo de Donald Trump" [The story of the Uruguayan who is a close friend of Donald Trump]. El Observador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 8, 2025. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
- ^ a b "Trump named Lou Rinaldi as ambassador to Uruguay, and Leah F. Campos as ambassador to the Dominican Republic".
- ^ "Cambio de gobierno en Estados Unidos puede revertir el "terreno ganado" por la administración de Lacalle Pou con Trump" [Change of government in the United States can reverse the “ground gained” by the Lacalle Pou administration with Trump]. Búsqueda (in Spanish). November 5, 2020. Archived from the original on January 8, 2025. Retrieved January 8, 2025.
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- 1954 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century Uruguayan people
- Businesspeople from New York (state)
- Italian emigrants to Uruguay
- People from Lavalleja Department
- People from Westchester County, New York
- Second Trump administration personnel
- Uruguayan businesspeople
- Uruguayan emigrants to the United States