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Special Report - Uruguay: Mujica’s unfinished agenda (ISSN 17414474)
Executive summary
This report is not a balance of José (‘Pepe’) Mujica’s five-year presidential term (2010-2015). Its focus is the series of undertakings of major import that he either initiated or continued with added emphasis that he was unable to see completed — in other words, what he has left his successor, Tabaré Vázquez, to wrap up. Mujica himself said, upon leaving office, that he had managed to do less than half of what he had wanted. This report examines the state in which he left these items of his agenda and the reasons they are still unfinished.
- Executive summary
- MINING: ARATIRÍ PROJECT - Promising huge investment falters and shrinks
- INDUSTRY: PULP MILLS - New ‘biggest investment’ & obstruction from Argentina
- INFRASTRUCTURE: PORTS - Deepwater project & battle for Montevideo
- SOCIAL & HEALTH: DRUGS - Placing cannabis production in the hands of the state
- ELECTRICITY - Ups & downs of reshaping the energy matrix
- OVERLAND TRANSPORT - Trying to redress years of neglecting rail and roads
- SECURITY - Homicides down, robberies with violence still rising
- EDUCATION - Gearing up for new ‘national accord’