He was one of the last party leaders in Uruguay. Senator of the Republic and national deputy. After five presidential candidacies (1966, 1971, 1989, 1994, 1999), he was elected president, a position he held between March 1, 2000 and March 1, 2005.
The history of Jorge Batlle is one of the longest in Uruguay, most controversial and most prolific, in what was his passage through the Legislative and Executive Powers.
there are events that remained in the history of Uruguay itself, such as when in April 2002, the then president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, gave a press conference to talk about the relationship between Cuba and Mexico with the UN, when he decided to refer to the president Batlle as “a judas, a genuflexo and a liar of the greats”. Batlle had presented to the United Nations Human Rights Commission a draft resolution questioning the human rights situation in the Cuban country and requested that a representative of the international organization be sent to the island to study the situation. In response to these statements, the Uruguayan president decided to break relations, formalizing the break the day after Castro’s remarks. They would be normalized in 2005 with the coming to power of President Tabaré Vázquez.
On this day there are several of the members of the Colorado Party who remembered this date.
Today six years of the death of Jorge Batlle are remembered
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