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...politicians were barred from running. One was Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, 66, leader of the Blanco Party, a traditionally center-right organization that has been moving leftward; jailed upon returning last June from eleven years of exile, he was freed after last week's election. The other was Liber Seregni, 67, a former army general who heads the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), a coalition of five leftist parties. When the votes were tallied, the Colorados had won a 40% plurality, compared with 34% for the Blancos and 21% for the Frente Amplio. The rest went to a small conservative group...
Populist Alliance. Should the Broad Front succeed in selecting its candidate, retired General Liber Seregni, 54, that will mark the first time in 136 years that Uruguay's President will have been chosen from neither the Colorados nor the Blancos, whose platforms as conservative Establishment parties are virtually indistinguishable from each other. The Front was formed by dissidents who feared that President Jorge Pacheco Areco's repressive response to workers' demands and to the activities of the youthful urban terrorists, the Tu-pamaros, would lead to civil war. It is composed of half a dozen small parties...
...Chile's President Salvador Allende Gossens to office last year. But while the Broad Front's platform calls for agrarian reforms, nationalization of private banks and foreign trade, and the bolstering of state industry, it covers a much broader political spectrum than the Chilean alliance. Nor is Seregni, a disaffected Colorado, a Marxist like Allende...
...Tupamaros, who have been quiet since the spectacular tunnel escape that freed 106 of their number from prison last September, have given qualified support to the Broad Front, though Seregni has been careful to dissociate himself from their espousal of violence. One of his most popular promises has been to convert into much-needed ambulances the police vans that Montevideans call "chanchitas" (little pigs), and that have become a symbol of Pacheco's abridgement of civil liberties...
...result of their frustration has been a growing political polarization. Two weeks ago, Seregni narrowly escaped serious injury when an assassin lunged at him with a knife at a campaign rally. On the same day, a twelve-year-old boy was shot and killed in a campaign fracas. At a pro-Pacheco rally, someone tossed a live but harmless green snake at the speaker, who pitched it back onto the heads of his listeners. Such political turmoil was once almost unknown in the little land that was frequently called the "Switzerland of South America" and was noted for its hospitality...
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