Major setback for President Mujica and for the Uruguayan ruling coalition

Monday, May 16th 2011 - 06:38 UTC

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The administration of Uruguayan president Jose Mujica suffered a major setback over the weekend and could experience a further showdown on Thursday when members of the ruling coalition vote in Parliament the annulment of an Amnesty or Crimes expiration law which impedes the investigation of human rights violations committed during the country’s military dictatorship (1973/1985). Read full article

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GeoffWard
“The Inter American Human Rights Court which suggests the Uruguayan government reviews the 1986 bill to help with the cases of those still reported disappeared.”

This IAHRC is a viciously devious little organization.
It is willing to ride rough-shod over the Will Of The People - twice expressed in referendums of the nation over the years.

And it is willing to be used *exclusively* by left-wing individuals and organizations to destabilize governments.

The IAHRC really should be taken to the world Court Of Human Rights with a view to destroying it publically and humiliatingly.
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