The demonstration was convened by the PIT-CNT union center and supported by organizations grouped under The Intersocial, the Uruguayan Federation of Cooperatives for Mutual Aid and the Socialist Party.
Last week, the PIT-CNT urged carrying out a “massive action” and for the Uruguayan people “to remain attentive, mobilized and fighting against this modus operandi of deception and corruption.”
The organization’s statement responds to the derivations of the Marset case, with justice investigating the delivery of a passport in 2021 to the dangerous drug trafficker Sebastián Marset, when he was behind bars in Dubai for false documentation.
“Not only is there an organization of the Executive Branch that has failed to tell the truth to Parliament, which host the representation of popular sovereignty, but measures have also been taken to provide the Judiciary with important evidence on an issue that is aberrant, which is how our country gives a passport to a notorious drug trafficker,” said the president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdala.
On that same issue, the Socialist Party (PS) considered in a statement that the Marset case is “yet another pearl in an extensive necklace of corruption and shielding” in the government, which “defends privileges and increases inequalities.”
“We learned that the government lied to Parliament and the citizens and that even, after a meeting instructed by the President of the Republic and in which his main advisor participated, documents were destroyed with the intention of hiding them in an investigation,” the PS said.
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