Farewell to an Unassuming Star of Latin America’s Left
By
Nicolás Saldías
The least flashy leader of the 2000s “Pink Tide” was one of its most effective.
Tabaré Vázquez, the two-time president of Uruguay (2005-10; 2015-20), died Sunday of the disease he fought against his whole life: cancer An oncologist who continued to see patients even while he governed, Vázquez was not the most charismatic leftist leader of his era in Latin America, which included figures such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and the famously austere, Volkswagen Beetle-driving fellow leftist whose presidency bridged Vázquez’s two terms, José Mujica Yet Uruguay quietly, perhaps unglamorously, became Latin America’s model of social...
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