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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 22 June 2017

Gov’t draft budget proposal is met with protest in Uruguay

Development: On 21 June, thousands of workers adhered to the 24-hour strike called by Uruguay’s umbrella workers’ union, Plenario Intersindical de Trabajadores-Convención Nacional de Trabajadores (Pit-Cnt), in rejection of the 2018 draft budget presented by the government led by President Tabaré Vázquez and in demand of increased government spending on education and on social programmes.

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