(12 Dec 2014)
Ruling party candidate Tabare Vazquez celebrates victory in presidential election
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Montevideo - 30 Nov 2014
1. Newly elected President of Uruguay Tabare Vazquez celebrating on stage with party supporters, draped in Uruguayan flag
2. Vazquez celebrating as he is draped in Uruguay flag
3. Vazquez and the Vice President elect Raul Sendic celebrating on stage with supporters
Former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay adjust to their new life
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Montevideo - 12 Dec 2014
4. Various of Abd Hadi Faraj, former Guantanamo Bay detainee (in middle, with glasses) standing in the balcony of residence where he's staying. Two men standing with him are locals helping him to get settled in. Media below are trying to get him to talk
5. Former Guantanamo detainees getting inside a car
STORYLINE:
On November 30th 2014 a huge crowd gathered in Uruguay's capital Montevideo to celebrate after ruling party candidate Tabare Vazquez easily won the country's presidential election.
Vazquez stood on stage and congratulated the crowd on the victory, which returned to power his left-leaning coalition Broad Front, a party that has helped legalise gay marriage and moved to create the world's first state-run marijuana marketplace.
The runoff vote had drawn international attention because Vazquez's rival, centre-right candidate Luis Lacalle Pou, had promised to undo much of the plan to put the government in charge of regulating the production, distribution and sale of marijuana on a nationwide scale.
Late on November 30th, Uruguay's Electoral Court announced that with 59 percent of the polling stations counted, Vazquez had 52 percent of the vote and Lacalle Pou 42 percent.
Vazquez, a 74-year-old oncologist who was President from 2005-2010, immediately called on the opposition to join him in a national accord to deal with the key issues of public security, health and education.
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Six former detainees of the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay are starting their new lives in Uruguay, where they arrived on December 12th.
The men are staying at a Montevideo house as guests of a major labour union, which has been asked to help by President Jose Mujica.
A union executive secretary said on Friday the six managed to elude journalists and went on a 6-mile (10-kilometre) walk through the city.
He said they have been euphoric and are making plans to bring their families.
He said they've also started to take classes in Spanish.
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