Mujica headed for presidential victory in Uruguay

[demoleft]

Source: ap

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – Uruguay's likely next president tried to lead an armed revolution as a young man, hiding in sewers, killing a police officer and twice escaping prison through elaborately dug tunnels.

Polls suggest Jose Mujica — now 74 and committed to working within the democratic system — will easily win Sunday, keeping the center-left Broad Front coalition in power.

His rival Luis A. Lacalle, 68, a former president with the center-right National Party, has failed to gain traction with claims that Mujica would transform Uruguay into a radical socialist state.

The current president, Tabare Vazquez, comes from the Socialist Party but he has pursued moderate economic policies during his term, and even Lacalle has acknowledged that the country's European-style social-democracy has helped Uruguay survive the global economic crisis.


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[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. I like him. There's too much poverty in Uruguay, and while the poor suffer....

the rich live in splendor.

[demoleft]

2. i do not know much about him, infact i was having a deeper look...

...to get a glimpse of his bio.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. I know of Uruguay because a member of my family (by marriage)...

is an emissary from another country inside Uruguay. This particular person has lived in Uruguay for many years among the upper classes. There's discrimination, poverty, and only the well-to-do live well. This country needs a seriously strong man that will take no sh*t from the mega-rich there. I'll bet if he's elected, they'll all go scrambling out of the country, after emptying their coffers.

[demoleft]

6. thanks for the info...

...it will be interesting to see how it develops.
ciao to you, from the coasts of italy.
:hi:

[Stevepol]

7. Mama mia, why so far away?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Hello Italy! I love traveling inside Italy. nt

[DCKit]

3. "...claims that Mujica would transform Uruguay into a radical socialist state."

Another case of a politician listening to his advisors (probably some from the U.S. State Department) instead of the people he wishes to lead. The people are screaming for social justice and economic parity, and he's telling them that what they're asking for is eeeeevillllll.

[Vidar]

4. Bravo Mujica!