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Former Guerilla Leader Wins Uruguay Election | |
2009-12-01 | |
In a jubilant victory speech Sunday night, Mr. Mujica thanked a crowd of cheering supporters as well as his rivals and President Tabare Vazquez. Mr. Mujica will replace President Vazquez, who is barred from seeking a second consecutive term. His victory keeps the center-left Broad Front coalition in power for another five years. Mr. Mujica has pledged to unite the country using dialogue and diplomacy, citing Brazil's President (Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) as a role model. He has also promised to maintain the fiscal policies of the popular Vazquez administration, which have helped Uruguay's economy expand despite the global recession. In the 1960s, Mr. Mujica was part of the Tupamaro guerrilla movement that used bank robberies, political killings and kidnappings to fight Uruguay's conservative government. He was imprisoned during most of Uruguay's military dictatorship from 1973 to 1985. Uruguay organized Sunday's run-off vote after Mr. Mujica fell just short of winning an absolute majority in the October election. | |
Posted by:Steve White |
#1 Compare wid BANGLADESH > INDIA'S MOST WANTED TERRORIST IS STILL A CENTRAL RAILROAD EMPLOYEE IN ASSAM [albeit hasn't appeared on the job for a few years]. PCORRECTNESS SAYS > D *** NG IT, HE'S MERELY ON A REGULARLY EXTENDED PAID VACATION, WID BENEFITS, AS PER PROPER STATE EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS. Yokay, I'll say it, does this mean NEW DELHI = INDJUH'S GOVT is indirectly but realistically paying, via State-Govt public funds, for Terror strikes agz their own Govt-State??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-12-01 01:15 |