Former Uruguayan President Vazquez Is Dead, Says Family
December 7, 2020
3:05 am
Former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez who has been suffering from lung cancer since last year is dead, report says.
He died on Saturday in Montevideo at the age of 80 after suffering from lung cancer, his son said in a tweet on Sunday.
The center-left politician and oncologist who was the president of Uruguay twice in 2005-2010 and 2015-2020 was diagnosed with cancer last year towards the end of his second term. The Broad Front party he belonged to ran the cattle-farming country of 3.4 million people for 15 years up until elections last year.
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