The President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, said this Sunday that the explanations of Guido Manini Ríos to the questions against him, his wife Irene Moreira and her father, Roque Moreira, seem satisfactory to him.
A legal report from the Legal Counsel of the National Colonization Institute (INC) concluded that the three mentioned are indeed settlers, but Manini Ríos continues to reject it and argues that it is a political maneuver.
Lacalle Pou says that the far-right legislator spoke with him “a month and a half ago” and that Manini Ríos explained the “because”. “They seem reasonable to me, we will see what the Colonization Institute ultimately emanates from its directory,” said the president this Sunday at an event during the celebration of the birth of José Artigas.
keep denying everything
Manini Ríos came out to speak after the weekly Search published the aforementioned report on Thursday, which says that he, his wife and his father-in-law have exploited a 2,856-hectare plot of land as settlers.
“The question that arises is: Colonization did not realize that there were active military personnel who were settlers? Didn’t you realize a few years ago that the commander in chief of the Army was a settler? Did not (Andrés) Berterreche himself, the current director who was president of Colonization, know at the time that he had the commander in chief of the Army as a colonist? questioned the far-right legislator.
