Uruguay, Sunday 25 at 19.30 local time (20.30 Chilean time) closed the polls and vote counting began. The results left bereaved and back again to mistreat those who have already been violated in military dictatorship.
Results:
Beyond the results of the presidential elections, in which the leading candidate (Frente Amplio) Jose "Pepe" Mujica has to necessarily deal in the second round to Luis Alberto Lacalle (Uruguay's former president and also goes by the Party Nacional), which has not left the cancellation to the amnesty law hits not only the Uruguayan people, but to all who believe in the memory and state terrorism must not go unpunished.
The Limitation Act or Act Impunity (as its detractors call it) is the law which states that crimes committed by military and police during the last military regime remain amnesty. Was given by the first government to return to democracy Julio Maria Sanguinetti, of the Colorado Party and National Party corredactada (also called "White").
After a hard campaign work plebiscite for the annulment of the law, on 25 April this year was presented to Parliament 340,043 signatures in support, who gave permission for the exercise of a plebiscite in conjunction with the presidential election and that was to add a pink slip by YES to cancellation in the ballot, requiring 50% plus 1 of accession to nullify the amnesty law. However, not only the numbers were negative as also the prospects for building society were put in jeopardy, enough to shed 48% of voters in favor.
In a country like Chile that situation would similar, if not equal, and even recurring, but this is where it should make more of a caveat. Uruguay has a nation-state conformation that could be much more legitimate than ours, no further than necessary on the subject, also is exemplified in the twentieth century, Uruguay had two military dictatorships, while Chile had two dictatorships, three boards military power (two with coup d'etat) and "saber rattling", ie, our case is closely linked to the military as guarantor of the "political stability", but neither is reducing the consequences militarism that hit Uruguay. Besides this, and on the same line, according to a study by The Economist Uruguay is more fully democratic country in South America that believes in the principles of non-intervention, multilateralism, respect for national sovereignty and trust in the law to resolve disputes. Adding other indices also relevant, is the country (along with Costa Rica) to more equitable distribution of income between the richest 10% and 10% poorer, in Chile the richest quintile earns 13.10 times what it receives poorest quintile, and is the most literate country in Latin America (according to the UN), which explains why Uruguay was the first worldwide to establish by law an education system Free, compulsory and secular in 1877.
In this sense, Orientals are ahead of us around several themes. This does not mean that social problems have disappeared, although many times the figures when compared with other contexts are used to create imaginary excellent efforts of the government of the day and are empirically disjointed. Now, the moment you see in other social settings, for greater participation and partnership, which has not won the YES for the annulment of a law giving amnesty to violators of Human Rights: it hurts. It hurts that impunity is validated socially, intersubjectively in a community, because not only is a violation of human rights repression, torture, kill, but so is the failure to act against violence.
On Sunday, the distaste of perceiving feel forgotten and still earn the same, not only on the shoulders was Uruguayan.
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Jorge wrote:
The morning after the night of shame
What
I feel is a mixture of shame and disgust.
What
I feel is a mixture of shame and disgust.
A feeling of frustration and hopelessness.
A gut reaction of nausea.
The Uruguayans yesterday we had a chance to mend the past. Re-write history. To do justice. To erase once and for all the ignominy of a perverse law.
And we had no courage. We lacked guts. We won the indifference.
Today we look in the mirror and what we see is just a perverse reflection of what could have been.
What is not We encourage you to be.
of moral bankruptcy that affects us.
would have liked to write this morning that the night was over.
we had done with impunity and that we were going to enforce the state's punitive.
That is not revenge, nor proof that we have eyes in the neck.
born of the conviction that impunity is only able to generate more state terrorism. More and more people are missing desaparecedores.
born of the conviction that impunity is only able to generate more state terrorism. More and more people are missing desaparecedores.
I'm ashamed and it hurts me to the soul we have not been able to show more empathy.
That indifference has won us the game.
- Added Value:
__________ * Figures and comparison Chile / Uruguay referenced in "Tied but not equal" by Alejandra Yermany, Blog "The word is the window .
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