On October 25 this year , Uruguayans elected again to the President and the party that ruled in the next 5 years. The atmosphere is hot, dinner served. White, red, independent and compete for the scepter Frente presidential campaign to kill or die. The favorite candidate, Lacalle and Mujica, go fishing for the last undecided. Runoff ballot if No .... "Second Round", "win first" ... "Remote Voting" ... "Law expiration" ... Few proposals, many metaphors. The electorate is swinging. Uruguay, a country party to the core, its ideological foundations debate between the candidate closest to the center right of the table, "National Party and his election rival, left, belonging to the party now in government, the" Frente Amplio ".
belongs to one of the parties traditional, which once wielded their spears against the government party's traditional conservative "Colorado", Lacalle has become part of the center-right conservative. But knows that to win this election, the image can not be that. The electorate has shown its support for "simple men", near the town. For this account within its ranks to vice presidential candidate, the "handsome" Larrañaga, strongman image and those in the field.
On the other side of the "ring" Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former senator of the party Frente Amplio (the only candidate who has resigned his seat in parliament to run for president, saying "have faith") has the sympathy of a large working class, the fear of the gentry, and the attention of international businesses not yet see the issue very clear.
This campaign has given everything and grievances and discrepancies have transcended the constant media mind. Fraught with symbolic images, a campaign has been very "to the Uruguayan." We know what is, and yet we like to dress up, decorate it and then talk about it in the elevator, while shopping the newspaper, or in the middle of the massive criticized the Uruguayan national team. The party currently in government frontage, has shown that a change was necessary and entirely possible.
The media predicted the apocalypse, red invasion, foreign investors are fleeing in terror, radical rupture in relations with the U.S. economic ruin, desolation, lack of work ... the social crisis, the carnage.
But the reality is that none of that happened. And on the other hand many things are improved, the global crisis subsides, it invested money in aid plan Social, is "actually applied" social, aid, housing, computers. An attempt was made to settle past bad memories of the ghosts of the dictatorship, not bitterness that would be well justified, but for justice. It has sought to appeal to the transparency of management.
course there were mistakes. There always are and there will be more changes are needed, more and more. But the reality is that the apocalypse was very far from reality at the time and in relation to the Uruguayan people that like all people have certain characteristics, an identity that distinguishes it, and end the hype the world are our specialty. Media manipulation comes out and is still used, on either side ever.
As of today the law is discussed expiration; a vote on the possibility of annulling a law that leaves to go unpunished leaders of a coup that lasted almost a decade, and left in its wake, heinous crimes and torture. The "Tupamaro liberation movement" and those who believe that a threat of dictatorship was imminent, took up arms and tried to seize power, illegally captured and tortured, but they paid more than his attempt to overthrow the military power ... failed to pay even one day of arrest their crimes against humanity.
Uruguayan no mistake, there was no war here. The mere fact that we talk even of "war" is an example of our national character, hide dirty laundry. If there were guerrillas, if there were weapons, if there were military, but also there in droves, people, writers, journalists, filmmakers, musicians, activists, etc. they were simply guilty of being against an oppressive and dictatorial regime, which took up the only weapon at their disposal and that they believed in, a pencil, a camera or a book, and therefore were persecuted, mutilated, tortured, murdered or sent into exile.
This is the claim of justice and the statement that we will never allow this abuses.
In the middle of the election campaign, this law is also being discussed, promoted front members, the National Party is opposed on the grounds that it is necessary to resurrect the past, "you have to look forward and heal wounds. It is curious that they say it still claims about the tomb of Aparicio Saravia leader ... it is curious that a country seeking to establish a nation I look to the future while still failed to understand their past, to bury their dead, because many still not even been found. I wonder if the Jewish people have gone ahead without having ever spoken of the Holocaust.
I imagine a mother in the table, putting the plate on an empty chair, leaving a flower on a bed or staring at a horizon no name, no answers.
In these elections, we learn once and for all to require that whatever the rule, a little dignity and respect for all those who pay his salary, and suffer their mistakes.
For the curious ... links to the websites of the National Party and the Frente Amplio where they can find electoral proposals and platforms of government.
BROAD FRONT 
National Party 
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