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Uruguay: Frente Amplio wins presidential election

Latin America Commission, New Anti-Capitalist Party — 2024-12-13T10:36:14Z

On Sunday 24 November, the Frente Amplio (FA) won the second round of the presidential elections in Uruguay. The pairing of Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse won 49.8% of the vote against 45.8% for the right-wing Partido Nacional. A clear victory. The coalition-movement, as it statutorily defines itself, won in 5 of the 19 departments, whereas previously it had only won in the 2 largest cities, Montevideo and Canelones. The FA won 16 out of 30 senatorial seats and 48 out of 99 deputy seats.

- IV599 - December 2024 / Uruguay

Tribute: Ernesto Herrera (1949-2024)

Charles-André Udry — 2024-01-28T16:43:41Z

A belated tribute to Ernesto Herrera, who died on 10 January 2024. The shock had to be absorbed. A comrade-friend, with a hyphen of fraternity and not of union, in order to respect his personal trajectory.
Born on 22 May 1949, Antonio Maria Nuñez Guglielmi was part of the Spanish and Italian emigration that settled in Uruguay, a country that experienced exceptional growth from 1910 until the early 1950s. An activist, he chose as his pseudonym the name of a writer who, among other things, (…)

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Fourth International, Uruguay

“Latin America has once again entered a period of strong social and political turbulence”

Franck Gaudichaud — 2021-04-13T07:35:14Z

In this interview, Franck Gaudichaud considers the social and political dynamics of the recent period, and also current issues in the region.

- IV555 - April 2021 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia

Dead ends and limits of progressive governments

Franck Gaudichaud — 2020-11-14T08:42:02Z

With the collapse of the USSR, the end of history was announced without delay. Nothing seemed to be able to stem the neoliberal global tidal wave, when the Zapatista uprising in Mexico erupted in 1994. Five years later, Chávez took power in Venezuela : it was the beginning of a long process of rupture, through the ballot box, on the Latin American continent - Lula in Brazil, Morales in Bolivia, Correa in Ecuador, Mujica in Uruguay… part of the Western radical left then turned its gaze, not without hope, to the other side of the South Atlantic. Two decades later, what balance sheet can we draw? Successes and limits, contradictions and specificities.

- IV550 - November 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Argentina, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia

From the crisis of progressivism to the progress of the crisis

Luis Rangel — 2020-03-01T06:45:21Z

In recent years, debates in the international Left on Latin America have tended to focus on countries with governments that, in different ways and at different tempos, separated themselves somewhat from their nations' traditional oligarchies (sometimes more discursively than really): Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador. In general, without downplaying their political and economic importance, but as the situation dictated, the emphasis has been on Venezuela, Brazil, or Argentina. Even Ecuador seemed to be an add-on to the “progressive axis” in international analyses. Then we saw, one-by-one, the progressive experiments fall, wear out, and enter into crisis. Debates revolved around the “end of the cycle” and the menacing Right coming for revenge. There were urgent calls to stop the enemy, and for unity.

- IV542 - March 2020 / Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Nicaragua

Who's who in Latin America's upheaval

Claudio Katz — 2019-11-25T04:08:02Z

Latin America is experiencing an abrupt change generated by enormous confrontations between the dispossessed and the privileged. This confrontation includes both revolts by the people and reactions by the oppressors.

- IV538 - November 2019 / Brazil, Haiti, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Cuba, Latin America, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, El Salvador

President promulgates law decriminalizing abortion

Guillermo C. Cohen-DeGovia — 2012-10-27T13:28:43Z

A draft has been approved by Uruguay's national parliament making it the first South American country to broadly decriminalize abortion, which only exists so far in Cuba, Guyana, Puerto Rico and the Federal District of Mexico.

- IV453 - October 2012 / Women, Uruguay

Progresismo and the neoliberal matrix

Ernesto Herrera — 2005-09-23T20:04:23Z

The leftwing coalition Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria triumphed at the Uruguayan elections of October 31, 2004, with Tabaré Vázquez of the Socialist Party being elected president in the first round with 51% of the vote (see IV 363, January 2005). The new president assumed office in March 2005 - Ernesto Herrera examines the record so far of his “progresista” government.

- IV370 - September 2005 / Uruguay

“Change without rupture” or “Reformism without reforms”!

Ernesto Herrera — 2005-01-05T00:00:00Z

The leftwing coalition Encuentro Progresista - Frente Amplio - Nueva Mayoria triumphed at the Uruguayan elections of October 2004. We publish here an interview with Ernesto Herrera which was carried out before the elections and which presents the viewpoint of Corriente de Izquierda.

- IV363 - January 2005 / Uruguay

"A period whose outcome is open"

Corriente de Izquierda — 2002-12-14T00:00:00Z

At a time of the debacle of neo-liberalism and a loss of governmental legitimacy coinciding with a growth of workers', popular and student struggles, the Third Congress of Uruguay's 'Corriente de Izquierda' (CI) was held on September 14-15, 2002. The CI has 350 activists and some 800 members. It groups radical left militants of diverse origins (Trotskyists, Tupamaros, independents).

- IV346 - December 2002 / Uruguay