Government in Uruguay
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URUGUAY, 2014/06/16
In the Broad Front former president Tabare Vazquez who in the primaries came comfortably ahead with almost 80% of votes cast will have as his vice-president candidate in the ticket Raúl Sendic, the son of the founder and major leader of the Tupamaros urban guerrilla movement active in Uruguay in the sixties and early seventies.
Sendic, 52, has been a member of parliament, minister and until a few months ago the chief of Uruguay's government owned fuels and cement company Ancap, one of the major of the country which includes the country's only oil refinery plus cement and bio-fuel plants.
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URUGUAY, 2013/10/23
The new poll from Cifra shows that Mujica's popularity went from 53% last March, to 49% in August and again 51% in October. In that period approval of his performance dropped from 49% to 45% and has remained there.
”Mujica\\'s performance oscillates at a good level although he took off (in March 2010) with an enviable support from two thirds of the people. He started to have critical problems in mid 2011 and again in September 2012, but instantly following some ups and downs remains with 51% popularity and 45% approval“, according to Luis Eduardo Gonzalez chief of Cifra.
Broken down by Uruguay\\'s three major parties: three fourths of the ruling coalition Broad Front support Mujica while part the two opposition parties this drops to a quarter.
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CHINA, 2013/05/31
At a conference held in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People with the speaker of the National People’s Congress, Zhang Dejiang, Mujica said that Uruguay is on “a very rich continent, albeit the majority unjust on earth -because of the way its riches are distributed.”
“China, who since last year has been Uruguay’s leading trade partner, has an increasing participation in its economic next,” he said. “Uruguay is the last agricultural reserve of mankind” at a time at the same time as the request for food is growing in Asia.
“It follows,” he said, “that a policy of integration is a strategy for the next and something necessary as long as Asia and its needs continue to grow.
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URUGUAY, 2010/08/20
