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Weekly Report - 26 May 2011 (WR-11-21)

URUGUAY: Dark past threatens to blight bright future

In the end it was decided by one man. Víctor Semproni, a deputy for the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA), defied the equivalent of a three-line whip to thwart the ruling coalition's longstanding efforts to strike down a controversial amnesty law. The repercussions go well beyond the impending difficulties for the government in responding to a demand from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in March 2010 to annul the law. The FA's increasingly unhealthy obsession with the Ley de Caducidad is undermining the government of President José Mujica, which should be basking in the glow of continued economic growth. It is also causing public frustration, which the opposition is tapping, that other priorities such as public security and education are being neglected.

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