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sandensea

(22,850 posts) Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:27 PM Sep 2017

Lucia Topolansky takes office as Uruguay's first female vice president

In a special session of Uruguay's General Assembly, Senator Lucía Topolansky was sworn in today as the nation's first female Vice President. She replaces Raúl Sendic, who resigned amid allegations of improper use of a state oil company (ANCAP) charge card.

Topolansky, 72, is the wife of former President José "Pepe" Mujica. Elected to the senate on the leftist Popular Participation Movement (MPP) ticket, she will be sworn in to the dual role of President of the Senate this Saturday.

The MPP, the largest group in the ruling Ample Front coalition, was established by onetime Tupamaros - a left-wing urban guerrilla group active in Uruguay in the 1960s and '70s. Both she and her husband were tortured during their time as unregistered detainees from 1972 until democracy was restored to Uruguay in 1985.

Topolansky will also serve as acting head of state while President Tabaré Vázquez travels to New York to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly.

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Lucia Topolansky takes office as Uruguay's first female vice president (Original Post) sandensea Sep 2017 OP

thank you for posting this. niyad Sep 2017 #1

Sure! Glad you liked it. sandensea Sep 2017 #2

awww, gee, got their boxers in a wad, do they? pooooooor babies!! niyad Sep 2017 #3

Like right wingers everywhere! fierywoman Sep 2017 #4

True that - especially in Latin America. sandensea Sep 2017 #5

We in the US are not doing that much better with women in politics, are we? fierywoman Sep 2017 #6

No doubt about it. sandensea Sep 2017 #7

niyad

(119,931 posts)

1. thank you for posting this.

Reply to sandensea (Original post)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:29 PM

Sep 2017

sandensea

(22,850 posts)

2. Sure! Glad you liked it.

Reply to niyad (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:31 PM

Sep 2017

I understand the right-wingers in Uruguay are apoplectic; but I doubt that'll faze her. She's one tough cookie.

niyad

(119,931 posts)

3. awww, gee, got their boxers in a wad, do they? pooooooor babies!!

Reply to sandensea (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:38 PM

Sep 2017

fierywoman

(8,105 posts)

4. Like right wingers everywhere!

Reply to sandensea (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 12:49 PM

Sep 2017

sandensea

(22,850 posts)

5. True that - especially in Latin America.

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:09 PM

Sep 2017

Latin American women who feel they'd like to pursue a career in politics generally find it easy only if they're white and - above all - sold out to whatever dominant interests control the country.

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff and Argentina's Cristina Kirchner could tell you what happens if a woman is successful in politics - but fails to meet either criteria. Any mistakes are blown up out of all proportion, and it's basically trench warfare from day one.

Here's hoping Ms. Topolansky has an easier time than they did. She seems very grandmotherly, and that will certainly help her.

fierywoman

(8,105 posts)

6. We in the US are not doing that much better with women in politics, are we?

Reply to sandensea (Reply #5)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 01:33 PM

Sep 2017

sandensea

(22,850 posts)

7. No doubt about it.

Reply to fierywoman (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 13, 2017, 02:23 PM

Sep 2017

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