And this news from Uraguay, voters there have elected a left-wing president for the first time in the country’s 170 year history. Tabare Vazquez, a doctor, won in the first round of voting with just over 50 percent of the vote. Vazquez’s heads the Broad Front Progressive Encounter that is a coalition of former leftwing guerrillas, socialists, communists and social democrats. Vazquez’s victory in Uraguay follows similar moves to the left in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay and Ecuador.
