Former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez dies

Former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez died at dawn on Sunday at home, where he was convalescing from a lung cancer detected during his second term in office in August 2019.

In the official communiqué about his death, the Presidency of the Broad Front (Frente Amplio, FA) noted that 'with his departure, Uruguay loses an outstanding scientist and a competent citizen, the political system a key protagonist over the last three decades, and the FA members a comrade whose leadership honors and commits them to go ahead.'

Tabare Vazquez, who was the president of honor of the FA, was the first in the party's ranks to win the elections for the Intendency of Montevideo, and the leadership of the country in 2005-2010 and again in 2015-2020.

In consideration of the health measures in force here to control de Covid-19 pandemic and out of respect for his family's express will, there will be no wake and the burial ceremony will be private.