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Weekly Report - 13 August 2020 (WR-20-32)

URUGUAY: Manini Ríos pushes to open can of worms

It did not take long for the right-wing Cabildo Abierto (CA) to come knocking. The fledgling party of Guido Manini Ríos, former army commander and presidential candidate, always looked like being the most troublesome ally within President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou’s five-member ruling coalition. And events last week confirmed that to be the case as CA presented a bill in the senate to reinstate the Ley de Caducidad, the amnesty law shielding the military from prosecution for human rights violations during the dictatorship which was invalidated by the previous left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) government.

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