Eduardo Brizuela was born in
San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca and studied
agronomy at the
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, from which he graduated in 1972. He became an academic in the field of topography and was named a member of the Provincial Agronomists Council, later heading the Bureau of Surveyors of Catamarca Province and of its capital. In 1986 he became rector of the
Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, serving until 1991.
Politics Brizuela was elected Mayor of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca in 1991. He was re-elected in 1995, and again in 1999. He served as vice-president of the Argentine Federation of Municipalities from 1998 to 2000. In 2001, he was elected to the
Argentine Senate representing his home province, serving until the gubernatorial election in 2003. Eduardo Brizuela became a "K Radical," a UCR supporter of
President Néstor Kirchner, and endorsed Kirchner in the
2007 elections. He subsequently received the endorsement of
Jorge Sobisch's conservative Movement of the United Provinces, in his own, successful re-election bid for governor. Following his re-election, Brizuela (and most K Radicals) broke with
Kirchnerism as a result of the
2008 Argentine government conflict with the agricultural sector. Brizuela ran for a third term as governor in the
2011 elections, being defeated by Senator
Lucía Corpacci of the Kirchnerist
Front for Victory by 83,711 votes over 76,627. ==Death==