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Last Updated: Wednesday, 2 March, 2005, 16:38 GMT
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Uruguay signs deal with Venezuela
Vazquez welcomed "the Cuban people once again at this house"
A day after his inauguration as Uruguay's first left-wing
President, Tabare Vazquez has signed an energy deal with the Venezuelan leader.
Mr Vazquez and President Hugo Chavez agreed to exchange Uruguayan
food for Venezuelan fuel, and to work together on a state-run regional TV
channel.
President Vazquez restored full diplomatic relations with Cuba
immediately after being sworn in.
Uruguay is the fifth Latin American nation to move to the left.
Venezuela, Chile, Brazil and Argentina also have left-wing
governments.
Meeting the left
Uruguay broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba three years ago under
outgoing President Jorge Battle.
Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused him of being a traitor for
supporting US efforts to condemn Cuba's human rights record in a United Nations
vote.
President Vazquez said that ties should never have been broken off
and he welcomed "the Cuban people once again at this house".
Vazquez's election brought to an end almost 180 years of
two-party rule
After his meeting with Mr Chavez, the new leader held talks with
Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, in which they agreed to work together to
promote human rights.
Mr Vazquez asked Mr Kirchner to help to look for the bodies of a
reported 150 Uruguayans who disappeared on Argentine soil in the 1970s and
1980s, when both countries were under military rule.
The new leader is due to meet Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula
da Silva on Wednesday.
Correspondents say that despite his warm meeting with President
Chavez, Mr Vazquez's economic policy will be closer to the cautious centre-left
approach of President Lula.
Focus on poverty
Mr Vazquez's victory in presidential elections last October ended
almost 180 years of two-party rule.
The 65-year-old's win at the head of the Frente Amplio (Broad
Front) coalition party ended the long dominance of the ruling Colorado Party,
whose candidate came third, and the National Party, who came second.
Thousands of Vazquez supporters celebrated in the streets of the
capital, Montevideo, as he took office.
The BBC's Elliott Gotkine in Uruguay says the country's shift to
the left is down to disillusionment with the right and the failure of its
economic policies.
The left has also rejected many policies which had scared off
voters in the past, he says.
Mr Vazquez, a former mayor of Montevideo, signed a $100m
anti-poverty programme as one of his first acts in office.
"We have pledged changes and we will bring in changes," he said.
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