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Brazil & Southern Cone - March 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Vázquez accused of being out of touch

Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez presented a 40-minute state-of-the-nation address to congress on 2 March. The annual address is not prescriptive but by tradition heads of state are supposed to give an overview of their future plan of governance. More often than not, however, they end up focusing on their record in office. The political opposition accused Vázquez of being so preoccupied with his past achievements that he had lost sight of the present reality. The address was not entirely devoid of self-criticism, as the opposition maintained. Vázquez accepted that neither his nor previous administrations from the left-wing ruling Frente Amplio (FA) coalition had succeeded in overhauling the national education system, for instance, but he did avoid mention of politically and economically damaging mismanagement at the state-owned oil company Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland (Ancap).

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