Development: On 29 September Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez called for parents to support his battle with the local teachers’ unions by sending their children to school. Significance: According to some calculations Montevideo secondary school students have missed as many as 29 days of classes due the protests and strikes against low pay and poor working conditions staged by the local unions. This has led to the political opposition in congress to go on the attack, accusing the government of not being in charge of the education sector, leaving it to the unions to call the shots. But yesterday, the director-general…