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Uruguayan candidates end campaigns with their minds on a November runoff
The three main presidential candidates for Uruguay's Sunday 26 October election closed their campaigns on Thursday evening with three huge political rallies that gathered thousands of militants and put an end to months of travel, speeches, flesh pressing and baby kissing, in what could prove to be the tightest race in recent years. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“Speaking from a park by the sea front, Vazquez invited militants to defend “joy and happiness” which was brought by the two consecutive governments of the Broad Front”
Oct 24th, 2014 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0What he should have added is: and to protect the Broad Fraud's continuing corruption at all levels except 'No Money Pepe' who's such an old duffer he doesn't know what's going on.
U$D300M from ANCAP due to my running mate Sendic and U$D450M from the rest of the monopolies in losses.
How the fuck can a government monopoly LOSE money?
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Oct 24th, 2014 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You sound upset. What if anything can you do? Everyone believes the government owes them a living but are not prepared to work for it especially in Argentina, do not know much about Uruguay. We have the all the countries of Europe looking at the UK because we are a soft touch.
@2 golfcronie
Oct 24th, 2014 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What really does upset me is the utter hypocrisy of the Broad Front aka Broad Fraud which is nothing other than a bunch of commie / Marxist / bat-shit mad parties who would NEVER get into power on their own prospectus.
So, they band together under the one umbrella and seek to portray themselves as grown up and responsible people when the truth is so very far from reality.
The mass of the voters are illiterate and innumerate and seemingly choose the people who look and sound more like them irrespective of the obvious lack of ability. Once in power they divvy-up the jobs among each of the parties; you can imagine how “helpful” this can be running the country under our ruler Pepe.
Uruguay is always up against it for a very simple reason: we are VERY small both is size and population but have politicians who want to be up there with the big countries and in consequence we have a Defence Minister AND a Deputy Defence Minister but only a very small boots on the ground force which is asked to punch way above its’ weight doing UN work.
There are many stories of party members who have government jobs and are paid very well to never turn up.
In Maldonado the Head of Oncology for the region is a woman whose only claim to the job was that she had managed a pizza parlour but was appointed by Pepe never the less and I kid you not. She has to be ‘aided’ by a team of qualified doctors so that she doesn’t end up killing people because she knows jack shit about medicine and oncology in particular.
I live in the Maldonado Departmento and if I am unlucky to need the services of the oncology unit I will feel truly blessed to have her looking after my future! I am of course in private medicine and have an excellent company looking after my interests, but you never know.
And it’s such a shame, Uruguay is a great place to live if you are wealthy, not so great if you are not.
Sorry to hear that but the EU is the same. MEPS going just to clock in and then leave 10 mins later. The EU has never had an audit for their finances since it was set up. It is a bit like the scandal a few years ago in the UK but on a massive scale. The UK has been judged to pay the EU £2.1 billion just because they have turned the economy around unlike Spain,Italy and Greece. FFS let them WORK for a living.
Oct 24th, 2014 - 07:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0christine
Oct 25th, 2014 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0maldonado departamento???
it is departamento de maldonado you 1/2wit.
so you are living there since, let´s say 5 years ago, and you don´t even know the name of the place?
and in what city do you live?
east point, sugar bread or saint charles?
lol. monoglots.
@ 5 POLLY
Oct 25th, 2014 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I am a 1/2 wit then you must not figure on the scale.
I WAS WRITING IT FOR THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS AND USING JUST ONE WORD OF GIBBER-JABBA (to demonstrate the difference with the UK).
I have to admit I still have problems turning things around before speaking them in gibber-jabba, but what do you expect when the argies have similar grammar problems. Try reading the “comments” on Clarin.
Are you watching the streets, Chris?
Oct 26th, 2014 - 02:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;)
@ 7 Stevie
Oct 26th, 2014 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well you won't be.
Hahahaha!!
Oct 26th, 2014 - 11:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0See what la Tronca means by 'taking the streets'?
Or do I have to cut it out on paper for you?
;)
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