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Weekly Report - 24 September 2015 (WR-15-38)
URUGUAY: What lies beneath the silence over López?
The silence of Uruguay’s government to the imprisonment of one of Venezuela’s opposition figureheads, Leopoldo López, has led to sharp criticism from the domestic political opposition that the ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) coalition has lost credibility by allowing ideological affinities to trump human rights concerns. But there are many more factors lying behind this silence. Taken together they explain why, days after Chile’s senate voted unanimously to condemn the imprisonment of López, the FA used its slender majority in the senate to cast out a motion presented by the opposition echoing Chile’s comments.
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