This Tuesday, the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, visited Uruguay to meet with Luis Lacalle Pou in the Executive Tower, in a meeting that was also attended by the Uruguayan foreign minister, Francisco Bustillo, and his Ecuadorian equivalent, Juan Carlos Holguín.
Lasso recalled that Lacalle Pou was the first to congratulate him when he won the presidency of his country in April 2021, although Lacalle was later unable to attend his inauguration because the then Interior Minister, Jorge Larrañaga, had died.
Lasso, who came to power with the Creole Movement party, with a conservative, libertarian position, congratulated Uruguay on the results of the referendum against the 135 articles of the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC) in which the “No” triumphed, and assured that This gigantic legislation served as “inspiration” for his right-wing government to present “something similar” that reached the fiscal, tax and hydrocarbon sectors.
But, in his case, the “Investment Law”, which had been his campaign banner and battle horse when he reached the Executive Power, was rejected by the opposition that voted against it in Parliament. He compared it to the LUC and announced that he will present separate projects with the contents that he wanted to pass in the great legislative package.
«I believe that the economies of Uruguay and Ecuador are complementary. What Ecuador produces is not produced by Uruguay and vice versa. Therefore we can export bananas and we can also buy dairy products and meats. I believe that what is in our hands is an agreement between Uruguay and Ecuador,” Lasso said in statements collected by the news agency EFE.
