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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.

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.

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.

[ "A Step up" , blog entry "The Dead Man Talking" ]

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__________ * Figures and comparison Chile / Uruguay referenced in "Tied but not equal" by Alejandra Yermany, Blog "The word is the window .

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Veronica Psetizki

Montevideo

Less than two hours of the close of polling stations, long queues are a constant in many parts of the country. "We had no rest," says the chairman of the board at a school in the capital, while attending a voter and bites an apple mid-afternoon.

Minister of the Electoral Court, Edgardo Martinez Zimarioff, said the average voter has been higher than in previous elections. At 16.30 hours between 76 and 88% of those eligible to vote have already voted.

In a typically sunny spring Sunday, the Uruguayans took to the streets with festive cheer. Many pedestrians carry flags on their backs, hundreds of cars drive waving flags of different parties and some with the national flag.

Uncertainty about the result holds, but pollsters said they will start to provide preliminary results an hour after the close of voting at 20.30 local time.

is not certain that this Sunday the new president is elected, and that this one of the candidates would have to get over 50% of the total votes.

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Surveys indicate that Jose" Pepe "Mujica, candidate of the ruling leftist coalition Frente Amplio (FA) is who has a better chance of winning office with an intention to vote around 45%. It is followed by Luis Alberto Lacalle, the candidate of the Partido Nacional (PN), the center-to 30%.

As the number of undecided voters remained high until the last moment, with around 7%, analysts of public opinion does not rule out a victory on Sunday Mujica.

If unsuccessful, the two leading candidates will face a runoff on Nov. 29.

what if it is defined today is the composition of the new Parliament. Along with the election of president and vice president, citizens choose 30 senators and 99 representatives comprising both houses for the period of five years beginning in February 2010.

Five parties compete for these positions: the FA and NP, we still intend to vote the Colorado Party (12%), the Independent Party (3%) and NPC (0 , 5%).

Suffrage in Uruguay is compulsory and those who do vote are likely to be punished, unless health reasons therefor or have been demonstrating outside the country.

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So far there is no possibility of voting abroad, and this is precisely one of the topics on which the Uruguayans also be asked to vote on election day on Sunday.

And is that along with national elections, citizens voted in two plebiscites.

One seeks to allow the vote epistolary Uruguayans living abroad the country. The other, seeking to annul the amnesty law, passed in 1986 and endorsed in a referendum in 1989, which prevents the military and police personnel accused of committing human rights abuses during the de facto government (1973-1985) are brought to justice.

Each private room will be ready to vote on all political parties and two ballots bearing the inscription "Vote for Yes."

Those who want to agitate for the vote of the compatriots abroad should include on the ballot in white and those who want annul the amnesty law should put the pink. For each of these referendums are approved, they must also exceed 50% of the votes cast.

Massive arrival

Thousands of citizens living in countries of the region, mainly in Argentina, have been coming to Uruguay from Friday to participate in the elections.

An estimated 23,000 people have arrived by boat from Buenos Aires and at least about 15,000 enter by land.

Buquebús The shipping company sold over 18,000 tickets at a promotional price for Uruguayan who came to vote from the capital of Argentina.

As activists in the border city of Gualeguaychu, Argentina, decided not to allow the passage of the population residing in that country who would pay, those who chose to cross the Rio Uruguay with his car or bus had to use other bridges, in many cases extending its way into hundreds of kilometers.

The activists, who for nearly three years remain locked the bridge linking Gualeguaychú with Fray Bentos Uruguay to protest the installation of the Botnia paper were the target of criticism from Uruguayan citizens.

They complained about the decision not to allow themselves access and have missed a few days ago the Argentines who traveled to attend the match between Argentina and Uruguay in a World Cup soccer 2010.

Source: BBC News - Sunday October 25