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Weekly Report - 25 October 2018 (WR-18-42)
URUGUAY: Military pension approved against tense backdrop
Congress has approved a reform of the Caja Militar, the military pension, in a protracted process which has been the source of serious friction between the left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) government led by President Tabaré Vázquez and the armed forces. The bill passed through the lower chamber of congress just days after Carlos Silva, the president of the association of active and retired officers Centro Militar, maintained that conditions were ripe in Uruguay for the military to take power again due to what he described as a dearth of democracy in the country.
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