URUGUAY: the COUNTRY BUCKING the SOCIALIST WAVE in LATIN AMERICA - VisualPolitik EN
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Petro's victory in Colombia, Gabriel Boric's government in Chile, Lula's possible return in Brazil and Pedro Castillo's coming to power in Peru. Latin America is once again immersed in a huge wave of political change. A change that clearly bets on the resurgence of left-wing parties and politicians.
However, a small country of just over three million inhabitants is not only turning in the other direction but also hopes to become a model for the future of Latin America, perhaps for Argentina in particular. We are talking about Uruguay.
In this video we tell you all the details about the turnaround led by Luis Lacalle Pou.
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Keep an eye on Panamá, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica too.
Was this VisualPolitik or a manscape infomercial. Either way after 2 minutes the video is over cause it becomes all about stupid products
Rare video on Uruguay lads. The last video on this country was done on September 5, 2018. It's been 3 and a half years.
I was gonna up vote but we didn't get a demonstration of the sponser product 😂🤣
Nah I'll just use a bic razor thanks
As an uruguayan, 180 degree change? that´s not how it works. This is a solid institutional country, A few changes? yes, but the core remains the same.
They look at uruguay but they see Nicaragua, cause they don't really get shit. They think frente amplio is socialist... Such dumb perspective.
That's not the point. Watch the neighbor countries that voted different party lines and the results have been 180° appalling, not only in the management of the pandemic but also in the current Rusia war effects.
Well, the problem always seems to be conservatism. Uruguayans have embraced new lines of thought, evidence of which is the 3 consecutive terms won by the leftist coalition for the first time. But whenever the centre-right's been in office and they've tried to change some of the old ideas, namely, aspects of their 100-year-old bismarckian welfare state policies, such as monopolies by state-owned enterprises, the leftist coalition (and some centre-right leaders) have used the people's widespread tendency to conservatism in order to develop a narrative aiming to maintain inefficient, expensive businesses, which have always been partisan bounties for chieftains or 'caudillos'. This, together with the social security hot potato, have been the biggest hindrances to sound development.
@@HerrHertzsprung Quite the contrary. Uruguay was one of the first countries that embraced the welfare state, under the goverment of Batlle y Ordoñez. This move worked in favor of strong institutions. One man, or one "caudillo" as you said (can you even name a caudillo right now in Uruguay?) will never be as strong as an institution, for instance because people die, institutions dont. The leftish coalition did an amazing job at keeping democratic institutions safe for 15 years, and this right wing goverment is doing the same. Fanatism is for kids, we grwon people should not fall for that kind of stuff.
@@raultalmon1467 Any grown man with a decent understanding of economics can cleary see present-day competetive development calls for supression or reformation of businesses/services, which an incipient welfare state required for the building of such institutions as public services, social security, insurance and the like, but which are now burdensome and absurd. They did make sense one hundred years ago. But those have more often than not mutated into de facto tax collecting agents, with the most blatant example being the state-owned petrol company -curiously also a political springboard for several recent presidential candidates. These contribute to tax pressure on key factors of development such as petroleum and electric power, with costs rising by up to 35%, burdening not only end consumers -by reducing their saving capacity- but mainly the productive sectors -raising operative costs and marring their productivity and competitive edge.
So, as grown people, what else can such practices be called other than fair and square conservatism?
And, yes. I can name a caudillo: Mujica.
Corruption Perceptions Index : Uruguay is considered a less corrupt country than France !!!!!!!!!!
that must research paid for by uruguay...i doubt that this is true having the experience of both places. uruguay is run by some 18 families. monopoly through and through. ONE company for electricity, monopoly on alcohol, on gas...etc
@@PhuckTheQueen you speak absolute nonsense, evidentlty you don't have the least idea about Uruguay
@Star Citizen N7 🤣🤣🤣🤣 one sees BS comments like yours every now and then
@Star Citizen N7 wow! reality is a hard pill to swallow
Not for long.
As a brazilian, I get the feeling that only Uruguay is on the prosperity path. The rest is too divided and chaotic
@Augusto Pinochet I can't tell, but I don't see why you'd have a name of a guy that killed so many of your own people? Most of which were innocent?
Indeed, whether we, Brazilians, decide to go right or left in the next elections, we'll still be lost. Both main candidates are horrible options.
And it seems the same pattern is happening everywhere in South America.
@@danilolabbate I have to agree... there is no project, no one looks forward toward development. It always fight, fight fight
la nueva izquierda latinoamericana va a ser la unificadora del continente y vamos a prosperar como nunca por estar unidos
@@piedrablanca1942 Mismo cuento de hace 15 años atrás.
Uruguay is a great country. So peaceful, full of nature, beautiful. I can’t wait to move there.
Not as rosy as it seems
@@Fede_uyz off course, there’s not a perfect place. Even first world countries have problems.
Great country, but incredibly expensive. If you have income from another country you will have a much higher standard of living in Argentina.
@@tahiti1 argentina is shit rn. Its crazy. To recommend anyone to go there
@@estebancarbajal6014 i said if you have an overseas income source. I am in Argentina, and I have recently been in Uruguay. I can live like a king in Argentina or like a pauper in Uruguay where prices such as food are now higher than London!!
As I understand, Uruguay has some of the most civil liberties in the world.
yes, gay marriage, marihuana, prostitution, civil guns(more restricted than in US) and abortion are legal here, the religion is strong socially but has no political power at all
@@alfonsomarrero9742 Thanks god
Technically dueling is still legal in Uruguay, though no one really enforces this right.
@@eng.luizgustavo8153 not since 1992... these days it would count as murder.
Yes, this is not a wing nuts government...more like center right. LP is modernizing stagnating laws affecting our competetivity in the world. Mercosur is dragging us down also. We are still a welfare state, the others, except Argentina are not. Cheers!
As a Brazilian, I can tell you what everyone here already knows... Mercosul has never worked and probably never will.
Uruguay is choosing a good direction by ignoring it.
Uruguay proposed to make Mercosur more flexible in order to equally favour all the countries that integrate it. If that isn't considered, Uruguay will not leave Mercosur but will certainly move forward to achieving benefits for its people.
I'd agree that Mercosul hasn't worked, but to honest most of the countries that it has impacted have had deep problems that would normally inhibit the success of such a treaty. Crime, corruption, violence, insecurity, bad infrastructure, social disunity, etc...all play a role in the level of foreign trade. I'm hoping that Uruguay can be an exception, since they are generally better off in most of these areas.
having lived in brazil and uruguay I would choose brazil over uruguay any day. there is NOTHING brazil can learn from uruguay other than how to be good at being poor? love brazil, will never ever step onto uruguayan soil EVER
the reason uruguay has no say is because it has nothing to offer. no resources, no qualified workforce. go there, live there, and tell me how life is for you?! i have lived there for 5 years and finally got out with borders opening again. worst place i have ever lived in and i have lived the world over
@@shyamdevadas6099 Crime, corruption, violence, insecurity, bad infrastructure, social disunity????? better off?????? you have NEVER been there otherwise you would not spread such lies...or you are uruguayan and lie openly
@Joaquin Pampliega i don't really care what uruguay says it is...leader of whatever...the food is horrible, it is NOT european AT ALL!!! neither their food, nor their mindset nor quality of housing nor anything about them is european. at all! i am european. i would know.
it is NOT the most developed at all...
brazil is a huge country. yes rio etc is dangerous, but southern brazil is by miiiiiiles safer than anyplace in uruguay.
drugs poverty and violence are everywhere and as a foreigner, a white one that looks european, you stand out like crazy. in southern brazil not. everyone is truly european.
most uruguayans have an italian background even if some claim otherwise - and yes, i would say it is the same mafiosi style behaviour ...but even italians are more cultured and skilled.
The Uruguayan has the highest IQ in latín América - i almost chocked laughing on this comment hahahhahahaha...if that is so the world would be dooooomed. highest IQ? are you kidding me. now in brazil i can FINALLY use my money to pay for people to do some jobs for me adn do them properly. in uruguay nobody seems to know their job...you pay a plumber and he has no clue about plumbing...i have stories to tell you they show you that their IQ is never ever the highest in south america...what a joke. all big projects that work are run by argentines. NOT by uruguayans. uruguayans speak no languages and barely even spanish really.
lived there during the pandemic and there you could truly see what uruguay produces without importing it all from brazil and argentina...most companies run for the hills...major companies shut down due to labour laws
just because uruguay pays for ads that say its the safest country it is not.
it is NOt for no reason over 90% of all foreigners that settle in uruguay run for it after a maximum of 4 years...
its like being in a toxic relationship
you try make it work but notice the partner is simply not able to change so you must move on or end up going mental
any foreigner i know is disgusted , deeply disgusted, by the way foreigners are treated...
buying is easy. selling is a nightmare
you must be uruguayan , no other person would surely say these things cos they are simply not true
I love Uruguay! Such a free country! Hope one day I can move there!
You’ll be welcome with open arms! 🇺🇾
Well pack your bags. Do you know Spanish already, what are you waiting for, go live your lifeeeeee!
@@thnktank1 Me too, I want to move to Uruguay. How does one move there from the UK ?
@@socialistsolidarity4934 Start by calling the embassy
I am going in December. I live in the US since childhood, but Uy is an amazing place. I was born there. Before the pandemic I went twice a year bc I am an academic and can do my research when off from teaching. It's truly a beautiful place. But it is not a right wing country, no wing nuts there. It's a welfare state with free universities, quality afordable healthcare, and great tax laws for outside income. There are many expats, lots of Europeans, and tons of new migrants from Asia and Latin America. It's a very open society. They have always been opened to the world.
Right Wing 😂 The world is getting more and more extremist because you classify people into only these two categories. For us he is a moderate conservative, like most of our presidents.
In my opinion President Pou is a moderate conservative. Compared to the Presidents of Guatemala and Brazil. Alejandro Giamattei and Jair Bolsanaro.
His name is Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou
As he should. You can't be a radical and be a president of Uruguay.
Most people here despise the extremes so that's why the left and the right are so evenly split. One of the first things Frente Amplio party did back in 2005 while its first period in office was to reject radicals so vehemently and so profusely that they evictedm themselves from the party (which is actually like a coallition of smaller parties) and founded their own party Asamblea Popular now Union Popular and are one of only two extreme leftists parties in Uruguay algonside Trotskist Partido de los Trabajadores, both whom collectively share less than 4% of the electorate.
Likewise in the 1970s when the Pachequista block of the Colorado Party supported the right wing coup d'etat all rightwing parties most prominent figures prominently rejected to the point Blaco Party leader Wison Ferreira was locked up when he returned to Uruguay as a candidate because the Army was scared sh*tless of what he would do with them if elected.particuarily due to his overwhelming support of expats living in the US who had become American citizens.
@@BurnRoddy The issue is that now the left is in the hands of the Communist Party, of moderates nothing (they love the regimes of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua) Of course many do not realize it.
@@BurnRoddy The only point with which I agree is that Uruguayans are against radicalisms.
Even Uruguay's de facto government was different to all the others in Latin America.
Wilson Ferreira Aldunate was imprisoned because, if he was elected President which he would've been had not been imprisoned, he would've judged all the crimes against human rights.
On the other hand the Partido Colorado and the left winged Frente Amplio, sealed a pact with the militaries. A pact that later the Frente Amplio naively believed could be reversed.
@@BurnRoddy A radical party won't get the majority of votes. But becoming the president? We had a terrorist become president in 2010...
the more I look into this country for a place to relocate to the more I like it.
Come! 🤗
There's only one problem it is very expensive relatively speaking and there's only one flight a day at least for me I live in the Midwest and it's a 13 hour plane ride approximately let's say so if you think you just wanna remain only in South America area and not commute much then it could be the place for you it depends where you wanna go and live do you wanna live on the ocean or in the city of Montevideomake sure you do your homework
weird like when it comes to Uruguay is "world is much bigger place than Mercosur and it'd make sense in future to leave Mercosur" when in case of UK its always "everyone trades the most with its closest neighbours so it can never make sense for UK to not be part EU or at least participate in SM/ CU".
Maybe different countries and different situations?
Because Uruguay's biggest trading partners are 1. China, 2. Brazil, 3. the US. It's wrong that 'everyone trades the most with its closest neighbours'.
EU single market is one of the largest markets in the world, Mercosur just pales in comparison.
@@bapo224 for a tiny country like Uruguay, surely mercosur, even if small, should mean a lot?
@@adsri2755 not really, given that Uruguay does most of it's trade with. China and the US.....
'Uruguay is far from a tax heaven' is such an understatement
Comparing to the taxes Argentina charges, Uruguayan´s taxes are acceptable even though they are high because the socialists raised them during their 15 years of government!
I would describe President Lacalle Pou as center right, a liberal democrat not right wing
Not right, nor liberal. But comparing to Frente Amplio he looks that way
@@dereksmithestrada5179 Not even so. Plus Frente Amplio is not 100% left, not until its last government at least.
He is right wing, maybe kind of Libertarian but not far right. That’s a big difference.
@@geografisica He is a parasite that never worked in his life. As a Senator before been elected President, he attended his duties as such on a dismal amount of occasions that can be considered an perpetual AWOL . He certainly belongs to the right, and surely wont survive in his post after 2025.
“Right wing” word is very loosely used nowadays. There’s nothing wrong in having right wing values.
I love Uruguay. I hope they keep going in the right direction.
A better question would be this. Will the reforms in Uruguay force Mercosur to reform as well? For better or for worse, Uruguay is bringing competition and foreign investment into a stagnant economy. This will put pressure on Mercosur to adapt. If it doesn't and if Uruguay's success exceeds that of its neighbors, the political pressure on other member states the leave the union will break the block apart. This is not a question about the value of Mercosur or Uruguay's reforms; rather, this is about change and the capacity these member states have to make change a reality. I fully realize how corruption can gum up the works in a million different ways, but even corruption cannot fully block progress when there is momentum behind it, and even minor changes can have enormous effects. Something to ponder.
Uruguay está pensando en firmar un Tratado de libre comercio con China. Su objetivo es ser una economía primaria y de servicios. A la Argentina y Uruguay ese tipo de tratados no les conviene, tienen industrias que defender. Uruguay no es lo que te venden, la gente pasa la frontera a comprar comida en la Argentina.
@@carinajauregui9383 Porque todo vale cinco veces menos, gracias al gobierno de corruptos e incompetentes que tienen.
Brazil, Paraguay, and "Chile" (not a direct member of Mercosur) already have many of these policies. Uruguay is a welfare state, even with this center right government it is still a social democracy.
@@pelipequi1493 ¡Qué exrtaña la lógica uruguaya! Pagan 5 veces más los productos, y los corruptos son los argentinos. ¿No te estarán cagando?
@@carinajauregui9383 El gobierno argentino, terriblemente destructivo y corrupto, de Alberto Fernández y Cristina Kirschner, ha aplicado políticas que han generado una inflación histórica del 64%, el peso argentino no vale nada. Es lógico que siendo países fronterizos las personas hagan turismo de compras hacia Argentina.
Enjoying every possible pronunciation of “Uruguay” being demonstrated in this vid
It is constant and constantly changing lol
Nicely done and informative.....
I'm from the Philippines but I'm always interested on moving to South American countries and I think Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾 is the perfect choice to migrate in the continent.
You will be welcome....! It's not easy emigrate to another country with a big cultural difference.....but if you decide to tale the step....Welcome to Uruguay! I listen Ez Mil......is from your country living in USA.....he is a great artist.....
Wooo! Go Uruguay
First off, great video! The timing on this is perfect. One interesting barometer for this is the fact that Uruguay just this year has begun to appear on the lists of best places for expats to retire. This is significant because such lists tend to measure the quality of life in the overall country and not just the cost of living there. Uruguay is supposedly the wealthiest Latin American nation, per capita. This is surprising at first, but not so much after you consider the problems found in other Latin American countries. Weak democracies, histories of oppression, massive racial and social injustice, multi-generational poverty, rebel insurgencies, narco-trafficking, embedded corruption, ineffective judiciary, etc, etc, etc. Whatever problems Uruguay has, it doesn't face anything nearly as critical as the messes you find in Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Guatemala, and several other countries down there. So, why should they really give a damn about making their neighbors happy? There are a small handful of Latin American countries that are rising about the disorder on the continent. The most common elements among them are that they combine relatively good governance with a desire to open their business to the world. As close as this election was, I have a hunch that the Uruguayans sense this critical moment in history and the failure of the leftist approaches in neighboring states. This president is bold. I wish him and his country the best of luck.
You are wrong. Uy has been on that list for a while. Why else do think foreigners have been buying land in the east coast for years? I.e, my American and European neighbors of over a decade.
@@pelipequi1493 Actually, I should have been more specific. I have been monitoring these various lists for about 8 years, in preparation for my own retirement. Uruguay hasn't really been on the top 10 lists for the major Western watchdogs like AARP, International Living, Money Magazine, US News, etc. I don't doubt what you say about Americans and Europeans investing over the past decade. There are always early investors who are willing to take a greater risk. (Financially, they are often the biggest winners.) But, this past year was the first time that Uruguay started to show up on some of the major top 10 lists. This isn't really that surprising, considering many of the stars on these lists have now slipped off. These include New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Dominican Republic, Canada, and others. In most cases, this is due to a spike in real estate costs, general inflation, or worsening conditions in the country. In any case, Uruguay looks like a really nice place and I look forward to learning more about it.
@@shyamdevadas6099 Couldn't agree more.
Your whole analysis is useless. The simple fact that you take this video seriously is more than enough indication.
These guys sell the illusion of being informative when it's nothing more than lazy and generic libertarian propaganda, designed to sell ads. And look how you fell for it, rambling about Latin America. You know nothing about it, you're just repeating the dumbest propaganda around, PragerU tier.
@@mgg7756 Of course, this calls to question the reason that someone who considers himself to be intellectually and informationally ascendant on this subject is even viewing the video or reading the comments. Face it, sonny...you're a fake. To fill the vacuum of your own loneliness, inadequacy, or failure you troll for things to look down on and criticize. There is a name for people who engage in such self-delusion, in order to lift their egos. Of course, the most concise term would be "loser"...which is what you obviously are.
More to the point, you have somehow managed to entirely miss the purpose of this video. In general, Visual Politik does not proselytize. It presents facts that aren't generally presented in the short segments found in most online and broadcast media. It attributes most of its sources. Most of all, it leaves the question open at the end, instead of drawing conclusions...like you obviously have. (Oh yeah, sonny...I think I forgot to point out that you're also a hypocrite.)
As for myself, I have had 12 years of college and university education, hold 3 degrees including a masters degree, and spent over 35 years traveling on business. For over 20 of those years, I've had my own firm and have conducted business in every part of the world except Africa. Unlike you, I've studied Latin America both in school and in business. Uruguay in particular has been a subject of study because I am planning an expat retirement. Most of all, I've learned from all of these experiences that you approach the world with an open mind and NEVER make rash generalizations.
So, with that I recommend you clean up your act, sonny. Spend a bit less time in the sun, cool off in a dark quiet place, consider your inadequacies, and don't try to compensate for them through bluster and blather. Frankly, it makes you look rather silly.
Guys it would be great if you did a video about what is going on in Brazil, the divide between supporters of Lula and Bolsonaro and how crazy things are getting
Ya, Brasil is getting violent over it, nothing good is coming out of it besides more power to the gangs 😢
@@puraLusa there are so many topics for possible videos, from economics to the left coming back, security, the president's antics...
@@alexandreschelbauer4594 Brazil is doing just fine, LULA WILL NEVER COME BACK AGAIN, and much less the MAFIA that once ROBBED BRAZIL blind! #Bolsonaro22!
Everyone knows Lula will win and integrate the country further into BRICS, both possibly good for the country but it’s hard to say for sure. As for domestically, yeah I’d be interested in learning how far left Brazilian society wants to go economically.
Lula and Foro de Sao Paulo are a curse for Latin America.
When one looks at the figures of Brazil prior the pandemic, Bolsonaro's government was doing a good job in all aspects.
Unfortunaly the agenda of Foro de Sao Paulo is all about concentrating power and allowing and covering corruption if that is the means to power.
I hope the Brazilian's are not fooled by it.
Paulo Guedes, brazilian minister of economy liked the idea to reform mercosul
Sounds like Uruguay is on the right path.
It surely is.
hopufully it works out
“Latin America simply switches back and forth from left wing kleptocracies to right wing kleptocracies” Whatifalthist
Very true, they still can't have a combination of good policies from all sides that will work...
@@GrandChessboard
There's no such a thing "good policies from all sides".
We always had only populist leaders in Latin America, from the left to the right.
@@pablobomgiorno8273 Far left and far right. All you have are socialists and fascists. Yes, there are good policies on both sides. Just not from the extremes...
Have you asked him what he thinks of Uruguay?
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Dominican Republic has been stuck in a centrist wing kleptocracy for decades.
Wow, didn't even know you had an english spoken channel, and I find it out with a video about my country.
LOVE THE OPEN DEMOCRACY REPORTS. THIS IS ONE ALTERNATIVE THAT SHOWS PROMISE. I BELIEVE THAT IF WE CAN CHANGE THE NARRATIVE WE CAN CORRECT THE DIRECTION OF OUR PATH.
the stability of Uruguay is founded on social democracy
your effort to sell manscaped....Hillarious!
You should make a video about the current political and security situation in Nigeria.
Nope, we don't want western propaganda, they should leave Nigeria and Africa out of their videos
I will: shithole.
So proud of my president! I hope we can keep the same direction for the next years!
Sí, orgullosa colonia china.
@@carinajauregui9383 cuánta bobada produce la desinformación
@@aliciabartezaghi6963 ¿Dónde estaría la desinformación? Así no cometo errores. ¿Es desinformado decir que miles de uruguayos compran COMIDA en Entre Ríos? ¿Es desinformado decir que en Uruguay la comida es más cara que en la Argentina?
@@carinajauregui9383 Explicame la relación entre que la comida sea más cara y ser una colonia china. Porque el costo de vida de Uruguay ha sido más caro que en Argentina desde que nací y cuando nací China todavía no existía en el mapa geopolítico mundial.
@@tinchotincho9231 Si en un país productor de alimentos como en Uruguay, con escasa población, la comida es más cara que en la Argentina, es obvio que los han estado cagando desde hace décadas. En esa los chinos no tienen nada que ver. En cuanto a China, la disparidad de negociación es aún más abismal que con la Argentina y Brasil. A los uruguayos los conocemos y queremos. Le aguantamos que sean irrespetuosos en sus declaraciones. Con los chinos no va a ser así. Apenas un Presidente Uruguayo se haga el guapo lo van sentir el rigor chino. Buena suerte con ellos.
your video contains artifacts, it is possible that the PC where the videos are rendered has a problem with RAM
8:53 Luis "Lacal pu" 🤣🤣🤣
I am thinking of moving there and this was useful stuff, thx.
The more you go to the south of south America the more developed they become.
Maybe it's just the colder sea weather.
More White
Very information thank you
Uruguay is anything but a "right-wing" model. Uruguay has a robust public school system, a robust health care system, a robust economy, and a very educated populace. Right-wingers' heads would explode at such a country.
The rest of South America is far from right wing and it all stinks, who could’ve thought!
I'm getting more and more convinced that Grant (the host) is intentionally mispronouncing many non-english words. He's amazingly consistent, I don't think there is a single Visual Politik video hosted by Grant where he doesn't mispronounce at least one word, at the same time the other Visual Politik hosts usually pronounce non-english words relatively accurately, such a level of consistency can't be an accident.
Maybe, does lead to comments like mine and yours lol, helps the algorithm.
This channel is garbage, they probably don't care
In most LATAM countries, right wing governments have always been extremely corrupt, but extreme left governements (if there's such a thing) can be too protecionist (not saying they can't be corrupt, depends on the country).
Right wing. This is CENTER right
I would say Venezuela is extreme left. With more oil than Saudi, they should be a very rich country, but leftist policies destroyed the economy. Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela are examples of how extreme leftist governments destroy their peoples life.
This video really piques my interest in Uruguay. The mentioned reforms sound almost too good to be true; the country appears to be a 'socialist paradise' without the almost inevitable problems of socialism. Socialism almost inevitably leads to corruption, loss of freedom, and lower living standards. It's what has wrecked and impoverished so much of the Americas. Uruguay seems to be among the precious few- Iceland, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Denmark.... (some of these are 'semi socialist') and this is wonderful.
I would just object to inviting massive investment from China, this is flirting with disaster. China often enters foreign markets, uses up the place, and then leaves it wrecked. Very foolish, there are lots of countries that are more humanitarian that still have plenty of capital.
Asking for reforms from MERCOSUR is reasonable too, these entities almost invariably over-regulate, it's why Britain voted itself out of the EU.
Ultimately, the miracle of Uruguay comes it's culture. The ruling people sound like reasonably decent people and they aren't an isolated elite.
Great video, very informative!!
Sounds promising!
You should do a video on the upcoming election in Nigeria. It will be very fascinating to see your analysis of the youth movement in the country.
hi visual politik please can you make an episode about tunisia and the revolution against the islamism and nahdha partie after 10 years of chaos with them and tunisia a role model for democracy in africa and the arab world
You should make a video about the economy in Chile :)
Chile is a great country but as far as freedom and income per capita uruguay is better
Change is change, not necessarily good or bad. As a Canadian, I can say that too much right wing gives us a hunger for the left wing and also too much left wing makes us want the right more. Balance is the goal. The imbalance of democracy can help to maintain balance over time but eventually the bureaucracy builds up and revolution is needed to shake down the sick and cancerous or heart diseased system.
Yea um bad news. You’re a centrist.
as a uruguayo living in canada, I couldnt agree. more
Hey Grant! Where are you getting your “Hawaiian” shirts?
Gosh i wish youd slow down man! Im uruguayan, speak fluent English, live in Canada, but you gave me a headache 😅
4:19. Lyndsey Hoyle. nuff said!
Everytime yours guy makes a video about Latin America, I lose some confidence in this channel...
It's like you guys were never here, and never really tried to study our history.
Yeah, they are kind of idealistic when it comes to the changes in Central and South America, as if they never studied the history of the region.
What are you talking about? All they said about Uruguay WAS CORRECT!!!
@@lauruguayitausa lmfao . urguay in every sense grew very well under the leftist coalition poverty declined , gdp grew everything wast except there weren't many billionaires for Neo liberals to appreciate .
@@bloodwargaming3662 Are you so naïve that u believe leftists and their lies??? Or are you joking??? I left Uruguay a few years before they got into power. I would work all over town making members for a health company. I would ride my scooter in every single neighborhood, no matter how poor it looked. People were nice and they would invite me in, some of them lived in shacks, which were usually very clean, they were very educated and courteous people, they would even offer me a glass of water in the middle of summer which I would gladly accept. I felt safe and welcome, and I was a woman in my 30's then. I never, ever witnessed an act of violence, or disrespect. Nowadays, in those same neighborhoods, you can go in alive, but there is no warranty you would come out, alive, and for sure if you do survive, you won't have a scooter anymore, or even your clothes. That is how bad, the country became during their 15 years in power! Crime rose like foam!!! My neighborhood which was really safe before them, during their terms, you would hear news of gun shots and people dead in the streets. My mother who loved to go out shopping or just for a walk, one day told me, I am afraid to go out. They rob even the elderly, a friend of hers was left almost dead for a few pesos, they hit the old woman with cruelty in a "safe" neighborhood. Poverty too rose like crazy. Before them, you would never, ever see a homeless sleeping in the streets. When they left they were everywhere all over the country. Before them, drug was not common. Again when they finish their terms you could see drug addicts in every town. Before them 80% of teens would finish high-school. When they left only 40% were finishing it. Before them the external debt was 40% less... they raised it like crazy, because they were so corrupted that it is unbelievable how much money they stole all over The vice president alone "misplaced" according to them, 1,000 million dollars (1 billion to Americans), but it was just a mistake... the person responsible of the public phone company stole another 60 million dollars, but again... it was a mistake... they created public ghost companies with very high salaries, that they were paying to their friends, but the problem is that those companies were NON-EXISTANT!!! They also created companies that hired people, technicians, etc. to work for the public companies, but just with limited contracts. Let's say the real employees of the public company, for "x" job would make 60,000 pesos a month... this new employee, they would give them a contract of "30,000 pesos" a month... You would say! O nice! They saved a lot of money from tax payers, right? Not so... that "supposedly" company that help this new hire, would make 2 or almost 3 times that amount they paid the employee for every month the person worked in the public company. So someone like my sister who worked about 5 years in that situation... she would make 30,000 x 12 x 5... but the company who only "helped" her, find the job would make 60,00 plus x 12 x 5!!!! More money they stole in a very quiet way... money, again, from tax payers... Before them there were some big companies, like Colgate. But they run away because they rose taxes like crazy! Of course they had to rise them... with all the embezzlements they did. And I could go on... and on... I could even right a book!!! So don't give me your shit!!! I know first hand what this people are about! And to finish... when they left the published everywhere that poverty was down (big lie). Two weeks after the new government was in place, COVID hit Uruguay, and poor people asking for a plate of food emerged from everywhere!!! That is when we, the people realized the farce was over!!!
I meant 60,000! Sorry I wrote 60,00
@15:07 hackrown? What is that? Is this a typo?
Do we need these politicians? Let's just use a simple voting app
Can be easily hacked
I am from Uruguay and i can assure you that your understanding of our political landscape is ridiculous.
Interesting. Can you tell us more?
Uruguay is a social democracy even when it's under a center right government coalition. It's not a right wing government!!!!
Why not?
Hi, do you think there will ever be a very strong trend to the left or the right all over the world?
In most democratic countries we seem to go back and for between left and right eve y10 or 15 years.
Why is there no clear winner?
there are no winners and losers
only the people lose dont hope politicians will do something do it yourself and get out of the dodge that is the reality of the world
Because when you go too far in one direction, people get shorted by that side's disadvantages, so they vote for the other guy.
@@Nemerian when nothing changes people want extreme changes
@@Houthiandtheblowfish it often feels like nothing changes because people choose a new group before the last one has had enough time to change anything
@@jjdelft3216 to certain extent that was why democracy was best system cause you couldnt get the control and do what you wanted
but sometimes maybe after 100 or 80 years
the institutions get corrupt old and lethargic that cant get anything done which were the reason to exist in the first place so it would need a revitalization so at the end there would be massive swing that would break things and the things that people want and their divide had to get solved once and for all with a duel insure peace at least for 80 years (if they surrvive) there would be a war or a civil war or revolution
How many times do you need to pronounce Mercosur Mecrosur before you realise you're mispronouncing it.
Uruguay is a fantastic country and I as well would like to move there one day. I was a big supporter of the leftist broad front, and particularly Pepe Mujica because of the Nordic style social state they created.
But now I think they have made the correct decision in electing an extremely moderate center-right candidate with more business friendly policies. The simple fact of the matter is if the same party stays in power things become stagnant and corrupt.
Uruguay has a relatively uncynical model of good-faith politics, which we like to pretend we do in the US. Part of this I think is because of the strong social state they created that fortifies a shared sense of priorities. But you need the private money to come from somewhere for people’s standard of living to go up as well.
So, good on them for being a model for us to follow.
you have never been or lived there...nordic style????? when pepe was still president he milked the system like all others did...lived there, 5 years...you can see the signs of hardcore socialism and peoples' mindset is still very much socialist
@Star Citizen N7 Troll
@Star Citizen N7 Bullsht. Murders were WAY higher under Bonomi than they currently are, Fraude Amplio made sure of that, and the highest spike in crime during the current administration is only a fraction of the one from the former administration. We have the best currency in the whole region and minimum wages are also at the very top of the whole region too, that's 12% higher than the second best ranked in Latin America Ecuador and 15% higher than the third best Chile. We are struggling yes, but NOTHING compared to what our - mostly leftist - neighbors are going through.
Mujica was the worst president and one of the worst governments we ever had.
@@BurnRoddy not really, this administraton will be remembered as one of the most corrupt in terms of faking their numbers, their economy growth numbers are fake, their unemployement rate numbers are fake, but the worst of all is the percentage of delinquency, what these hierarchs of the current Ministry of the Interior have been doing is to make up the numbers so that many true crimes are classified in such a way that it seems that felonies such as murder, rapine and violence with deprivation of freedom, look like, ( and are in fact clasiffied ) as simple thefts.
Well, the reality is quite the opposite, add that to the fact that this government is the one that has the highest numbers of changes at the high commands of the police in several departments, some have even been removed from their position for denouncing orders coming from the high command to make up these numbers.
They always seem to go back and forth between the left and right wings.
It's NOT Lacalle Pooh!!! FFS!!🤦♀️
"Looee Lacal Poo" VP EN 2022
The pronunciation is the accent on the “A” no on the “I” on the word “Amplio” and “LaCalle” is a double “ll” not a single “l”
Please stop pushing manscaped. It's overpriced, unsafe and ineffective.
have you tried it? Just wondering
This is called envy.
Yes I bought it. One of the worst purchases I have ever had.
This video reminds me of the thousand of jailed journalists in vietnam so far such as Tran Huynh Duy Thuc , Pham Chi Dung , Nguyen Tuong Thuy , Pham Chi Thanh , Can Thi Theu , Le Dinh Luong , Truong Minh Duc , Nguyen Trung Ton , Pham Van Troi , Hoang Duc Binh , Tran Anh Kim , Pham Van Diep and the new green environmentalist Nguy Thi Khanh.
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How do u relate with vietnam?
Very interesting. Thank you. This explains why Uruguay was not on my radar a few years ago when researching possible countries to live in. But, now I'm concerned that the current political and economic state may only be temporary. Any thoughts? And, what happened to all of the violent criminals? I'm sure they didn't stop committing crimes just because Pou was elected.
You should start a Locals page.
Other Latin America countries can take a page from Uruguay's book.
"Right-wing"
✌''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''right wing''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''✌
Socialism can eliminate exploitation
Lol. You want Venezuela 2.0?
Colombia has been right wing for the last 30 years (until now), and tell me, what do you know Colombia for? Corruption, drugs, false positives, etc.
Communist insurance and right wing death squads? It is what happens when a government can't control it's Territory.
Yup, colombia is also known for the biggest group who trafficked (with some other unsavory activities) done by groups that declared themselves left, communist left.
So 🤷♀️ it wasn't really the right wing was it?
Very disrespectful for those of us who remember what it was like before.
And also has had one of the biggest economic sustained growth of the region, in a few years will be know for being another hole of shit like Venezuela or Haiti, así que siga votando a petro guerrillo, vago!!
Colombia has improved dramatically since the 80’s, the decade which defined the public perception of the country
15:08 yo chief what the hell is hackrown?
It's Cattle smuggling/theft. Cattle has been the main Uruguayan export since before the country even existed and its still one of the main exports to this day including its derivatives it represents more than a quarter of our exports.
As an Uruguayan, ill analyze this video later, rn studyig.
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The defeat had long since coming. The Frente Amplio (FA) had won in 2005 with like 60%, then in 2010 it won with like 53%
In 2015 it won but only in a second round, as the FA could only muster 48% in the first round and then won in the 1V1 with the runner up by a 2% margin.
Since 2005, the FA DIDNT LOOSE ANYTHING.
IN 2019, yes the FA lost in the second round by a small margin, but it was monumental
After that, in 2022 a referendum to undo a bunch of legislation enacted by the governing party was defeated, thus being a second consecutive defeat
Who do you think is gonna win now?
@@sammmmmyyyyy in 2024s national elections I feel PN (Partido nacional - Center right) will win again, but only in the second round and by a small margin I believe no greater than 5%.
while some amazing things have been achieved like lowering some taxes, improving some quality of life aspects like your phone number not being tied to a carrier and being able to switch carriers without switching phone numbers, a few strings of bad luck, happenstance and bad 'marketing' have strongly hampered the PNs ability to win.
firat of all the pandemic meant that all the debt payback planned was barely done, and our national debt barely went down, also while many social programs were created or strengthened, the FA has run a very tight anti PN outfit, stressing that any cutbacks in spending means cutbacks in social programs. Unions (which are all left wing) have done things like run tons of strikes and stopped working in school cafeterias, only to then run campaigns about how many days school cafeterias haven't been opened.
other than that, the head of PNs security was found to have been dealing in counterfeit Uruguayan passports for Russian citizens between 2014 and 2019, where he operated under the head of foreign relations for the FA and the FA spinned it to say that because they found it NOW and because he is now working for the PN therefore it's their issue (despite PN entering into power in 2020)
Also because crime was reduced SO SO much in 2020 and now it has gone somewhat back up (lower than 2019) they are spinning it by comparing the last 2 years only, now showing the reversion of a 15 year old trend in lower crimes.
now we are facing a drought, and they are too blaming the PN for it despite dams and water management projects being funded and approved since early 2010s but not having been started by the FA, so really our current crisis is nothing more than their failure to act for so long.
@@Fede_uyz nice. I love Uruguay. Looking forward to visit soon!
@@sammmmmyyyyy Awesomely quiet and tranquil place! I hope we can manage to keep the Socialists and commies from grabbing power again!
Right wing? Dude, if Lacalle Pou is right-wing, then I'm Pinochet
Jajaja
If they will follow this through, we will see a new success story.
Left or Right wing... What matters is the people; are they 'invested' in the country's success, their personal success, the worlds success, or something else. You cannot have multiple masters, you will fight for one and seek to destroy the others.
The "right wing" president: A surfer who tried to legalize marihuana when he was deputy (his bill was rejected but years later another bill by the "left" was approved)
He is not right. He is center-right.
*My brain 🧠 just committed suicide.* 💀
They have abortion, Univeral healthcare, first country to legalize cannabis, gay marriage and many things that are very progressive. Not conservative just more open to business.
South America is not the United States... All South American countries have universal Healthcare & most are gay-friendly.... They voted right wing and clearly have a free-market goal to their country.
@@titus_philemon In the U.S. it would be considered socialism to have healthcare for the people.
@@GrandChessboard but again... South America is not the US.
@@titus_philemon Lol, I know that. They are commies to the conservatives here.
@@titus_philemon You seem to forget that the Catholic Church is anti-gay. So, in Catholic dominated Latin America, being pro-LGTBQ is VERY progressive and left leaning. There was a time in the not so distant past when gays in the Latin community were persecuted and, in some cases, murdered and the government simply looked the other way.
And Brazil????
It's Luis, not a French Louis
Louis Lacal Poo- Visual Politik 2022
WTF is "hackrown"? (15:08)
It's Cattle smuggling/theft. Cattle has been the main Uruguayan export since before the country even existed and its still one of the main exports to this day including its derivatives it represents more than a quarter of our exports.
G-d bless Uruguay from Jerusalem, Israel. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Socialism is a curse. Steer clear.
if you do not like socialism you should avoid uruguay because even though they changed president it is still socialist to the core...people's mindset does not change with a new leader...it is the worst place to live
"Socialism always works until it runs out of other people's money"
I fill for my Latin American brothers and sisters. Trying to revive the dead corpse of a failed philosophy. Originally from Cuba
where I studied it and was sent to the Soviet union to further my studies. Marx, Engel, Lennin and Trotskys ideas can not work because it can not sustain itself. Due to a centralized planned economy, poorly motivated workforce and terrible corruption within the government at all levels. And a lack of basic freedoms.
Feel you bro. I'm from Lithuania, we experienced the same communists terror, but now we are doing pretty fine, when we are no longer communist/socialist
Marx, Engel and Trotsky were wrong at the basis of their thesis. People don't identify class wise so class struggle is their invention altogether.
@@Woad_Brah not just the poor countries. My country isn't rich first world but we are pretty good. It has a long lasting socialist government that keeps getting elected thru the public clerks. The civil cervants vote the socialist who give them crumbles (better rights than the privates) in exchange they keep loyaly voting them in. 🤷♀️ Sometimes u see teacher or nurses complaining right into the booth that votes them in 🤷♀️. We have a pretty educated general population.
Socialism is not communism and it works fine in some countries, like Sweden.
@@ionnanskilliorus6877 That's not socialism.
People who say any of the Nordic nations are "Socialist" are uneducated, just regurgitating what they read on Twitter.
You should be focusing on being self supporting in Uruguay .
The issue with Uruguay is that it has an old population. Those old people were once intellectuals who were active in that nations policies.
Uruguay needs new young immigrants, but I don’t think these new Venezuelan and Caribbeans are going to raise the intellectual culture that made Uruguay what it is. When that strong European culture dies out in Uruguay, so will its nation.
It's also the reason meritocracy and technocracy exist.
Yep like Chile
Actually its the opposite.
You'd be surprised to find out that the overwhelming bulk of the Latin American imigration that comes to Uruguay is mild manered ans highly educated. This is because Uruguay being a welfare state has very high directed and indirect taxes and poor migrants can't really cope with the high cost of living. I'm amazed at the level of education from Venezuelans in my country when I look at what people from the same country do in other less regulated South American nations like Colombia and Peru.
The problem with our migrants however, is that they usually don't see Uruguay as a rmannt rsidence but a place to save money to move for Europe or the US so they stay for anywhere from a couple of years up to a decade and leave but if their children are born in Uruguay they are full on Uruguayans so there's always a chance they decide to stay or come back due to this fact.
uruguay has intellectuals??????? hahhaha
@@PhuckTheQueen Yes. Until the 1950 Uruguay had the biggest midle class in all of Latin America and were highly educated. Now Uruguayans don't even finish high school peoperly at the rates that they did as recently as the early 90s.
Can you make this video in Spanish? I would like to share the video with people that doesn't speak english. Thank you.
Actually, this video is originally in Spanish. You can find it in the channel VisualPolitik, without the word "EN".
Hola, esta en espanol tambien. Este es el mismo traducido en ingles.
Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
Good uruguay
Somehow bring down prices? More supply lowering prices is pretty standard economics
As an Uruguayan I don't think this video is complete without mentioning the massive successes of the 15 previous years of left wing government, specially the first 5. The criticisms presented in the video are valid and representative of the public's concerns about the Frente Amplio party but people are also very grateful for a lot of progress that was made by them, specially in their first term. People here are quite nuanced and not so much ideological I think, there's a lot of swing voters and a lot of people who speak fondly of Frente Amplio's first term were very unsatisfied with the latter two from a diverse set of perspectives (there's criticisms from the left, right and center).
That being said I think this was a fairly good and objective report!
Troll
@@aliciabartezaghi6963 No estoy trolleando, si la estoy pifeando en algo, la estoy pifeando honestamente.
Almost nothing is heard of Uruguay & I always said it must be b/c they are doing well. Congrats in having an honorable, decent, above corruption, democrat President
Sorry, but I disagree. This government is the most corrupt, indecent one in the last 20 years. They are staunch anti-communists, yet they depend heavily on Communist China.
Fails to mention his neoliberalism left Montevideo without WATER for MONTHS
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Nice video!
5y from now you will be making a video of how uruguay went downhill.
Like Venezuela? You know, the former richest South American country, which tried socialism and became bankrupt
Duud… teeth?
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To be fair the video is good. But the data in the conclusion is wrong. I will explain: 1 the pandemic effect goes down the homicides and all the others numbers much people were working remotely. Now we already have some numbers in 2022 and the homicides spike almost 40%.
I am from Uruguay. And I live here in Montevideo. (Sorry if I have some writing mistakes).
what? por fin kitaron al pos simon whistler? I might come back to this channel after all. :D
Yes , But is he Honorable or Corrupt ?
Uruguay did well in 15 years with a Socialist Party (or left), not even close to what liberals and conservatives did in the country before them, and also Pou is not doing a good job, corruption and prices like the worst in a long time, the rankings that put Uruguay as a future promise in Latin America are from the 15 years proyect before the current government, in specific Frente Amplio's Party, not even close to what is capitalist, right wage and classic parties
Not Socislist but CENTER LEFT. You are also cassually discrediting the SOY ECONOMIC BOOM the social democratic governments experienced. The previous governments had to deal with the economic disaster the military regime left. We also failed as an offshore bank foe neighbors due to lack of transparency which those social democratix governments put an end to and the center right has carried on the center left banking tranaparency policies.
Why has this video been surpressed by the algo?
And next to Uruguay is Paraguay 🇵🇾 who has been ruled by the Colorado Party since 1947 except for a brief 4 years from 2008-2012
Paraguay doesn’t exist dude. Hasn’t any relevant, not ocean coast, no snow, no nice mountain anything. People seems poor there too
it´s not next to Uruguay. They don´t share any frontier. (The have similar names because if the rivers if you wonder)
DUDE! I gotta get that t-shirt you're wearing!