Last Sunday, June 8, El Observador published an interview with President Yamandú Orsi regarding the assessment of his first one hundred days in office.
When asked about what had been the best thing that happened to him during this period, he stated with his usual "fluency": "The best thing is the peace of mind and the determination that the team I have in government works well. I feel comfortable and calm seeing that the principle of 'being there, being there, and being there' is being fulfilled."
Below is a brief logbook of this journey toward honesty:
March 2, 2025 – Pontius Pilate
In October 2024, during the electoral campaign, Yamandú Orsi had, within his limitations, a glimpse of clarity: "If the scheme is binary, A or B, dictatorship or democracy, it's dictatorship," he said, referring to the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro.
However, on March 2, 2025, the day after the presidential inauguration, Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin stated in an interview with El Mundo that Uruguay would not recognize either Nicolás Maduro or Gustavo González Urrutia as legitimate presidents of Venezuela, completely washing his hands of the matter.
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March 12, 2025 – Too much to start with, better to kick the can down the road
Orsi suspended for 180 days the implementation of the rodeo regulation, approved by the National Institute for Animal Welfare, to avoid problems with progressive animal rights activists and traditionalist gauchos.
March 25, 2025 – Fast-track project to save CASMU's friends
The government urgently sent to Parliament a bill that used public funds to rescue CASMU's financial crisis, granting it a trust fund of 56 million dollars.
April 15, 2025 – Do as I say, not as I do
The appointment of Cecilia Cairo, who had never regularized her housing, caused national and international embarrassment. She paid property tax as if it were vacant land and $89 in primary school tax for 20 years.
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