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Elsewhere in the Americas, another election:
Uruguay has made a historic political shift in electing its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, and giving his coalition a majority in Congress to face rebuilding the country after its recent economic crisis.
With nearly all votes tallied Monday morning, the charismatic 64-year-old doctor had 50.7 percent of the vote, slightly more than the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win in first-round balloting.
...the new government is betting on fresh investment to rebuild industry in addition to ranching and banking. Taking a page from the book of the market-friendly leftist Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Vazquez has told investors there will be no upheaval and Uruguay will honor its $11 billion in foreign debt.
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|11.1.04 @ 7:45PM|#
I don't get the Tupac reference.
Jesse Walker|11.1.04 @ 7:49PM|#
Yeah, it was a little obscure. Vazquez's coalition includes the remnants of the Tupamaros, an urban guerrilla group of the '60s and '70s that named themselves after the Inca chief Tupac Amaru.
|11.1.04 @ 7:57PM|#
http://www.narconews.com/ -- decent info. on the election at this site...
|11.1.04 @ 8:07PM|#
Let's see here... a leftist rebuilding an economy... isn't that an oxymoron?
HAA! I kill myself.
Paul
fyodor|11.2.04 @ 10:21AM|#
Doesn't being market-friendly take all the fun out of being a leftist?
|11.4.04 @ 2:40PM|#
tupacs comin back to bust on these bitch made
niggaz till they gone!makkavelli in dis kolluminati all through yo body dat blows like atwelve gauge shoty!west side!!!!!$$$$$$$$$$