“Some doubts were cleared up by recent statements by the President, in the Mercosur Summit”. With this comment, a government official described just one of the aspects that were in the talk, without an agenda, that the presidents of the Argentina and Uruguay, Javier Milei and Luis Lacalle Pouin the Pink House.
The Uruguayan president had a pending one-on-one meeting with Milei since the assumption of this and finally it was given. But before The street had (implicitly) criticized Milei, for his absence at the summit of Mercosur in Assumption, where Uruguay assumed the pro tempore presidency. “The matter was clarified and -not even close- that was the most important thing,” the leader added.
The thing is Milei does not have the focus on the region, it seems clear. “He is giving a historic fight in the Argentine economy, Do you think he is ready to attend a summit where -let’s be honest- nothing is decided? Impossible!” said an Argentine diplomat with several summits under his belt, while preparing his agenda for the events at the AMIA. “Bilateral relations are excellent and it is understood that Uruguay “I don’t give importance to Mercosur, but the situation in Argentina is exceptional and we have to understand it (…). Even so, there are concrete advances by air, sea and land,” joked the veteran ambassador, referring to the deepening of the access channel to Montevideo, the open skies policy and bilateral initiatives that are moving forward. “Milei is much more aware of what is happening in USA that of the region,” he concluded.
The Uruguayan presence in Argentina this week was notable, and not only because of the bilateral meeting between the presidents Milei and Lacalle Pou. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the AMIA attack (still unpunished) they traveled to Buenos Aires the presidential formulas of the National Party and of the Colorado Party. Delgado and Ripoll were in the activities organized by the Latin American Jewish Congress and the candidate showed himself in photos with Lacalle Pou and Santiago Peña, President of Paraguay. “He doesn’t pretend: Delgado is the official candidate and is notoriously associated with the administration of Lacalle Pou and this government; with that, it will win or lose,” commented a political analyst who is now retired, but who still has the “tooth” to appreciate campaign moves.
The Colorados made their own emphasis: Ojeda He asked for Uruguay declare to Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups, just as Argentina has done. “Andrés has more room to maneuver, logically,” he added.
Rescue
The panorama in the health sector is becoming increasingly uncomfortable due to the situation facing the CASMU, the main mutualist. “These types of back and forth… don’t usually end well,” said a sad leader of the Medical Union of Uruguay (SMU)while reviewing one of the latest press reports on the case. “I am told that there is a conflict within the government itself on how to address the situation,” he added.
An accountant close to the SMU listened attentively and added: “Now the plan is to resort to a loan from the BROU, but the bank asks for a state guarantee… they are not fools at the BROU, luckily,” he said with as much humor as crudeness. “We have to see if that guarantee is granted, it would be like a bailout…”, he said. The fact that the bank is not a bank is not very helpful either. MSP saying that “it is not in their interest to financially drown CASMU”. “That would be good!” the leader exclaimed angrily. Although in recent days there have been signs to calm the situation and the president of CASMU reaffirmed that the numbers will continue to improve, doubts persist.
A lawyer with vast experience in analyzing the numbers of National Integrated Health SystemHe commented bluntly: “What happens is that the situation of institutions that are managed by their own owners is very different from that of those that are managed by managers, do you understand?”
Scandal
“Is another mayor’s office complicating things for us?” commented an indignant nationalist legislator upon hearing a new report on TV about the conviction of the mayor of Artigas, Pablo Caram, his general secretary and cousin, Rodolfo Caram, and of Valentina Dos Santoswho considers himself his right-hand man and a sort of “shadow mayor”. “We are not learning anything more!” he exclaimed. Corruption in Artigas was exposed by the Colorado mayor Daniel Argañaraz, who made the complaint to leaders of the Broad Front. “They acted like a mafia,” they say in their entourage.
In it National Party Concerns are emerging about the impact it may have on elections. “It’s not that there is a direct effect of high impact… the Caram case has been handled for a while… but it makes you go backwards in political terms, it takes away your vigor in militancy and in the electoral race… a c…,” said the legislator in old Spanish.
The unusual thing about this matter is that the harshest criticism came from within the coalition itself. Especially from Town meeting, whose relations with the National Party after the dismissal of Irene Moreira from the Ministry of Housing were seriously affected. “It was a disgrace,” he said at the time Manini to his trusted people. Now, in Cabildo they are experiencing a kind of revenge. “Caram ba!” he tweeted Moreira, She, upon learning of the mayor’s sentence, articulates herself in a scathing play on words.
“This gives Cabildo more room to vindicate its management and its positions in view of October. Manini is going to be very active,” said a public opinion advisor affiliated with the party of the former Commander in Chief of the Army. In the internal affairs of the Cabildo, the name of Rosanna de Olivera -president of the Inisa- to accompany Manini on the ticket. “Don’t tell me that Cabildo is going with a parity ticket? What a triumph for feminism!”, said one deputy, recalling Cabildo’s positions against the gender law.
In the Frente Amplio, the condemnation of corruption in Artigas has been more moderate. “And yes, in the Frente they are applying the Napoleonic maxim: if you see your enemy making mistakes, do not interrupt him,” said a white councillor, with the little humour he had left.
Source: Ambito
