Tabare Vazquez has been elected in Uruguay.

[BAPhill]

For what it's worth...Uruguay has elected Leftist
Tabare Vazquez as the next President. I have no link,
however I'm in Montevideo and they just announced it
on TV.

[bemildred]

1. Excellent. nt

[arcos]

2. WOOOOOOOO HOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

And the South American pendulum continues to move left!

[d_b]

3. Good. Even more a reason to get these reganites out of power.

[sugus]

4. Tabare Vazquez and John Kerry. The same face. Very good vibrations.

Tabare Vazquez and John Kerry. The same face. Very good vibrations.

http://www.tn24horas.com/popup.asp?Id_Nota=40793 Video.




LET'S GOOOOOOOO !!!

http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/

[sugus]

11. Antipated celebration? Final Sprint for Democracy in USA. Could we change?

Celebrate Uruguayans, celebrate. The Victory is yours.
http://www.tn24horas.com/popup.asp?Id_Nota=40794


Antipated celebration?
Final Sprint for Democracy in USA.
Could we change?

I m´afraid it will not be possible.

In Uruguay nobody has insinuated: if you don´t vote me, terrorists will win. Nobody has said in Uruguay: the terrorists want that I don´t win. Could somebody be more manipulator?

Science Information and Mass Manipulator Media know a lot about psychology of masses, using Bin Laden images just 4 days for elections.

Meanwhile, nobody debates about economic disasters, precarious contracts in labor, wages, pensions, house, education, neither health, nor infrastructures... JUST TERRORISM.

It´s very different: Bin Laden and Media didn´t help to Neocons arguments in Uruguay at few days of elections.

Here in USA, it seems there´s another DIRTY STRATEGY.
They lied about WMD for oil, and they are lying now again and again.
Lying and Rude Manipulators. The World is in a big danger if they win again.



Can we try to awake and open the eyes to the voters in the last time?

Some words seem necessary about this, but until today we don´t hear them sufficiently clear.

Come on! Let´s go to the final Sprint!
We have to try it!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Here's a link: "Uruguay Left Set to Win Presidency for First Time"

Uruguay Left Set to Win Presidency for First Time
Sun Oct 31, 2004 07:01 PM ET


By Mary Milliken
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Reuters) - Tabare Vazquez was poised to become Uruguay's first leftist president in elections on Sunday after campaigning for more distribution of wealth and social justice in a nation crippled by a recent economic crisis.

Exit polls and pollster projections gave the charismatic 64-year-old doctor between 50.9 percent and 53 percent of the vote, more than the 50 percent plus one vote needed to win in the first-round and avoid a runoff.

Pollsters Cifra and Factum said Vazquez was the virtual winner, but others did not yet rule out a runoff because of the margin of error in the polls.

Final results from the compulsory voting are expected after 2 a.m. local time on Monday (11 p.m. EST/0400 GMT).
(snip/...)

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6669196

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. That's a hopeful sign

Uruguay is a great, but little-known example of a country that gave up freedom for security.

The collapse of its agriculture-based economy prompted guerilla activity in the 1970s, and people allowed the military to take over, and that was the end of human rights for many years.

It's nice to see them recovering from their nightmare, almost as bad as but not as well known as Argentina's.

[henslee]

8. My friend is there right now. She said the place is going nuts!

Thousands of young people freaking out happy in the streets.

[Mika]

7. Add another country to the "Axis of Good".

:party:


FYI: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0103-01.htm

[bemildred]

9. Indeed.

:toast:

[Tatiana]

10. Latin American and Hispanic people are taking their countries back.

Chavez wins his referendum. Spain rejects its right-wing candidate. And now Uruguay. Good news.