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Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2016 (ISSN 1741-4431)
URUGUAY POLITICS & ECONOMY: Sendic survives scandal; FA comes out all guns blazing
Just one year ago Vice-President Raúl Sendic was trumpeted as the next big thing. But far from looking like the political future of the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) Sendic is now becoming a political liability. The uncovered debt accumulated by the state oil company Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland (Ancap) on Sendic’s watch has seen allegations of mismanagement directed at him not just by the political opposition but also the moderate wing of the FA. This makes it all the more damaging that when Sendic was awarded the position of director of Ancap in 2010 congress approved him on the strength of a curriculum vitae which it has now emerged contains one glaring falsehood: a degree he never obtained.
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