Uruguay, the most overweight country in Latin America

It is unusual that fewer than three million inhabitants have to support an elephantine state like Uruguay's. The worst part: the policies carried out by those who hold public office only harm those who pay their salaries: the taxpayers.

The Executive Branch's monthly expenditure

According to the document from the General Accounting Office of the Nation (Budget Law 2025–2029, Volume V), for the Presidency alone: $102,822,347 per month —among Authorities, Executive Units, and Dependents—, allocated to 2,538 officials, of whom 1,023 positions remain vacant.

Among them, the president, Yamandú Orsi, with the highest salary in the region: $1,065,380, followed by the secretary, Jorge Díaz: $382,150 and the deputy secretary, Pacha Sánchez: $324,828.

Then the 14 ministries: each with their respective ministers of State, deputy ministers, and general secretariat directors, with monthly salaries of $382,150, $324,828, and $267,505, respectively.

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The cabinet

The Ministry of Defense: $489,382,735 per month for 29,862 positions, of which 2,050 remain vacant; the Ministry of the Interior: $1,889,536,066 for 35,816 positions, with more than 3,000 vacancies. Economy and Finance: $149,424,502 for 3,938 positions, of which 1,243 are unfilled.

Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries: $75,287,685 for 2,452 officials, with 888 positions unfilled; Transport and Public Works: $54,608,611 for 2,789 positions, with 567 vacancies; Education and Culture: $136,068,457 for 2,254, of which 969 still need to be filled.

Tourism: $13,056,820 for only 173 officials; Environment: $27,954,488 for 328, with 127 vacancies; Foreign Affairs: $16,139,627 for 695 positions (182 vacancies); Industry, Energy, and Mining: $19,611,712 for 579 positions (205 vacancies); Health: $19,221,497 for 1,024 positions (320 vacancies); Labor and Social Security: $52,148,958 for 874 positions (290 vacancies); Housing and Territorial Planning: $24,526,329 for 390 positions (96 vacancies); and Social Development: $96,504,002 for 2,156 officials (462 vacancies).

The total monthly expenditure of the Executive Branch, including the Presidency and the 14 ministries: more than $3,166,293,836. For what? So that they can design some of these "brilliant" ideas included in the 2025-2029 Budget Bill, which will continue suffocating Uruguayans even more in the name of the progressive god: social justice.

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Pure burden on the taxpayer

They intend to allocate millions of pesos to the "menstrual hygiene basket" (art. 451), an initiative by the Colorado deputy María Eugenia Roselló, which in 2026 will cost $96 million and will soar to $181 million in 2029.

The Secretariat of Human Rights for the Recent Past will receive an annual allocation of $12,000,000 (art. 53), to continue promoting the narrative that victimizes the subversives. But they will also guarantee a subsidy to the Cuesta Duarte Institute of PIT-CNT (art. 574), responsible for training people "allergic to work" (unionists), with $600,000 annually.

They want to create the Regional Fund for Culture (art. 356 and 357), with 10.5 million pesos from General Revenues. But there will also be an annual allocation of $20,000,000 for the "Independent" Theater (art. 355).

They will create two Specialized Courts in gender-based violence (art. 486), with an annual allocation of $78,322,775 and for 2027, the Montevideo Criminal Prosecutor's Office for gender-based violence (art. 542), with $14,587,052. Also, a position of Director of Gender and Diversity of "particular trust" at the National Rehabilitation Institute (art. 134).

They will transfer a 63-hectare (155.7 acres) plot of land from INISA to the Legislative Branch, specifically for the National Human Rights Institution (art. 562), and will allocate an annual sum of $5,000,000 so that Cecilia Riera, general secretary director of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries, can promote gender policies.

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Welcome to a new Frente Amplio government

More bureaucracy, more subsidies for unions, "artists," and the "vulnerable," funding for gender feminism: all with the money of Uruguayan workers. This is the left in Uruguay and around the world: it fattens the State and with its weight crushes the workers.