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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 26 January 2018

URUGUAY: Autoconvocados flex their muscles

Independent agricultural producers, describing themselves as ‘autoconvocados’, have staged a mass demonstration calling for the government led by President Tabaré Vázquez to provide economic assistance for the agricultural sector. This was the first such demonstration by Uruguayan agricultural producers in over a decade, increasing the political pressure on the Vázquez government to address the longstanding demands of the sector, which has been mobilising in support of these since the start of the year [WR-18-01]. The ruling left-wing Frente Amplio (FA) government may try to dismiss the efforts by agricultural lobbies to press these demands as coming from ‘big agri-business’ but it is much harder to label the autoconvocados in the same way, making their protest more difficult to ignore.

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