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Weekly Report - 05 March 2015 (WR-15-09)
URUGUAY: Vintage Vázquez on display
President Tabaré Vázquez was driven away from his inauguration in the legislative assembly on 1 March in a 1951 Fordson truck, outdoing his predecessor, José Mujica, who arrived at the ceremony in his comparatively modern 1987 Volkswagen Beetle. It was the former vintage that prevailed in Vázquez’s cabinet appointments. Eleven of his 14 ministers were born before the truck was constructed 64 years ago. They will have to grapple primarily with public security and education concerns, under the shadow of the big imponderable – what happens on the other side of the River Plate when Argentine voters elect a new president in October.
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