After the circus of the funeral of the terrorist José Mujica, it is necessary to highlight a news item that went almost unnoticed due to the matter of the departmental and municipal elections on May 11.
None other than the president of the Frente Amplio, the political force of Yamandú Orsi that governs the country, evaded taxes for many years in a chalet in the Buenos Aires resort near Punta del Este.
Eternal Union Leave
Pereira, 59 years old, had a very long union career in the PIT-CNT, the Frente Amplio union center.
As an employee of the ANEP - Primary Education Council, he had a position as an elevator operator but did not attend work for decades.
He himself confirmed it to Orlando Pettinati in a radio interview a few years ago.
He did not attend work because he enjoyed union leave. But of course, he collected his salary every month.
This means he was a public employee. His salary was paid by taxpayers with their taxes, but he never attended work, taking advantage of the union leave.
President of the Frente Amplio
A few years ago, he went from presiding over the union center to being directly the president of the Frente Amplio.
During the government of Lacalle Pou (2020 - 2025), he deployed a malicious opposition full of lies with almost destabilizing behaviors.
For example, when he led the referendum against the LUC (Urgent Consideration Law), deploying a media terrorism campaign with blatant lies, such as that if the LUC was not repealed, public education would be privatized.
A total and absolute nonsense, but many people believed it.
Pereira the Tax Evader
Between 2015 and 2021, he did not regularize his vacation home in the Buenos Aires resort of Maldonado, neither before the Cadastre nor before the Municipality of Maldonado, thus evading taxes while serving as president of the PIT-CNT.
He began the procedures at the end of 2021 and mid-2022, after Ignacio Álvarez showed him the documentation that proved his irregularities.
And only this May, with the scandal unleashed by the evading officials, did Pereira catch up with the Primary Tax he owed from last year.
