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Weekly Report - 22 October 2026 (WR-26-42)
URUGUAY: Stability fails to deliver popularity
Uruguayans suffer from “an excessive lack of self-esteem”, according to the country’s economy and finance minister, Gabriel Oddone, who argued that they had forgotten what it was like to suffer from certain problems afflicting other countries in the region, such as debt management, fiscal stability, and inflation. While Oddone recognised that more needed to be done in areas such as competitiveness, his comments reflected a sense of frustration that the government is so unpopular when the country is widely viewed as a paragon of political and economic stability in Latin America.
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