Latin America & the Caribbean

[In the case of winning,] Scioli will replicate what Dilma Rousseff did in Brazil. A center-left and labor-based party, will need to make some market-friendly reforms.

Change is not easy to implement as you need consensus, which gives the false impression of conservatism. It is simply that in Uruguay we have checks and balances that work.

There’s a real sense the U.S.-Latin American relationship had been a bit distant and now has new possibilities. The one thing that could spoil that is the situation in Venezuela, so the administration is looking for ways to manage that.