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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 20

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (right) received yesterday in Brasilia the elected president of Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi, on the first trip abroad after his victory, with an agenda focused on the trade agreement that the European Union (EU) seeks to sign. and Mercosur. Orsi will be at the meeting of the South American bloc invited by the outgoing Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle Pou. The election of Orsi, the successor of former progressive president José Mujica, represented the return of the left to power in that nation after five years of center-right government.