“You know I don’t duck decisions that have to be made but a president is not a king,” President José Mujica said this week while announcing that he would take no decision on whether to accept six detainees from the US detention camp at Guantánamo, Cuba, until he had consulted with the victor in the upcoming elections. How far this complete change of tack owed to the party hierarchy of the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) pressuring him to back down on an issue which does not have public support, and could sway an election which is balanced on a knife-edge away from the FA, is a moot point.End of preview - This article contains approximately 679 words.
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