Tupac Lives

Elsewhere in the Americas, another election:

Uruguay has made a historic political shift in electing its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, and giving his coalition a majority in Congress to face rebuilding the country after its recent economic crisis.

With nearly all votes tallied Monday morning, the charismatic 64-year-old doctor had 50.7 percent of the vote, slightly more than the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win in first-round balloting.

...the new government is betting on fresh investment to rebuild industry in addition to ranching and banking. Taking a page from the book of the market-friendly leftist Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Vazquez has told investors there will be no upheaval and Uruguay will honor its $11 billion in foreign debt.

Comments

Mo | November 1, 2004, 7:45pm | #

I don't get the Tupac reference.

Jesse Walker | November 1, 2004, 7:49pm | #

Yeah, it was a little obscure. Vazquez's coalition includes the remnants of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla group of the '60s and '70s that named themselves after the Inca chief Tupac Amaru.

spur | November 1, 2004, 7:57pm | #

http://www.narconews.com/ -- decent info. on the election at this site...

Paul | November 1, 2004, 8:07pm | #

Let's see here... a leftist rebuilding an economy... isn't that an oxymoron?

HAA! I kill myself.

Paul

fyodor | November 2, 2004, 10:21am | #

Doesn't being market-friendly take all the fun out of being a leftist?

smoke | November 4, 2004, 2:40pm | #

tupacs comin back to bust on these bitch made
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