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Brazil & Southern Cone - September 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Uruguay provides object lesson in dealing with political crisis

In the end, it was one scandal too many for Uruguay’s Vice-president Raúl Sendic. On 9 September Sendic resigned over the misuse of corporate credit cards from a state-owned firm to avoid being sanctioned by the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition after months of being hounded for corruption, mismanagement, and misrepresentation. For the majority of countries in Latin America the sudden resignation of the vice-president for wrongdoing would have produced some serious shockwaves. But Uruguay preserved stability in the face of political crisis, following the letter of the constitution; days later, Lucía Topolansky, the wife of former president José Mujica (2010-2015), filled the vice-presidential void.

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