The project, which was sent from the Executive Branch and which already had the half sanction of the Senate since December 2022, received 50 pro-government votes of the 93 deputies present at the session, which ended this Wednesday early in the morning.
The text for a vote, approved in the Senate and modified by the Colorado ope pasquet in the lower house, refers to the compensation of victims of illegal acts that have perpetrated “members of organized and armed groups for political or ideological purposes, who as a consequence or on the occasion of such events have suffered the loss of lifethe permanent disability, total or partial, for work, or the deprivation of liberty for more than 72 hours”between January 1, 1962 and December 31, 1976. .
One of the differences with the previous text is that the wording of Pasquet puts figures on the repairs: “To the successors in title of those who lost their lives: USD 150 thousand; to those who suffered permanent, total or partial incapacity for work, or to their successors in title: USD 100 thousand; those who were deprived of their liberty for more than 72 hours, or their successors in title: US$50,000.”
The text makes it explicit that the compensation to victims who have already died “will be paid to their children” and “to their spouse or cohabitant with at least 10 years of cohabitationdistributing by equal parts among all of them.”
“In the absence of the previous ones, it will be paid to the legitimate, natural or adoptive parentsdivided equally among them, and in the absence of the parents it will be paid to the legitimate or natural brothers, in the same way”it is added.
The discussion has a long history: a project with the same objective, presented by the Colorado legislator Daniel Garcia Pintoswas not approved in the government of Jorge Batlle and in the first administration of tabare vazquez. In both cases the idea was signed by the former presidentsbut in the first case the proposal was shelvedand in the second the Broad Front (with a majority) rejected it.
