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Brazil & Southern Cone - April 2005 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Chastened Vázquez starts to deliver
President Tabaré Vázquez came under fire from a significant section of his ruling coalition, the Encuentro-Progresista-Frente Amplio (EP-FA), in late April less than two months after he came to power on 1 March. The main charge made by the former Tupamaros guerrillas, who account for just under a third of the EP-FA presence in congress, is that Vázquez is kowtowing to the IMF and reneging on his social welfare promises. The president reacted by taking his entire cabinet to one of the poorest towns in Uruguay and planning further such visits.
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