The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, denied that for now the Undersecretary (Vice Minister) of Foreign Affairs, Carolina Ache, will be asked to resign, who was informed that Sebastián Marset was a powerful drug trafficker before he was granted him a passport that allowed him to get out of jail in Dubai and go on the run.
“It was learned that there were communications in the appearance of the foreign ministers and their team in Parliament, then the chats themselves that they know today and were disclosed in the administration were made known, because the undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made it so known Foreign Affairs as the undersecretary of the MI”, Lacalle expressed in reference to the chats between Ache and the undersecretary of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel. These two hierarchs spoke about Marset and he was described in that conversation as a “very dangerous and heavy narco.”
“There was no other choice but to give him the passport”
Lacalle Pou added that “luckily this issue is going to be elucidated in Justice, which has all the elements, that an administrative investigation has been provided by the Foreign Ministry and has all the elements, which gives me the peace of mind that there was concealment, that the truth was told.”
He went on to make it clear that “for now it is not considered” to ask either of them to resign. Finally, the coalition leader argued that “there was no other choice but to give him the passport” because that was established by current legislation.
The president contradicts his own statements from years ago, refusing to request the resignation of leaders involved in complex cases such as that of Marset. On September 8, 2016, when he was a legislator, He said on Twitter: “Someday Uruguay will return in which the Ministers resigned or were asked to resign. By management or by shame ”.
