Carolina Cosse, vice-president-elect in Uruguay, does not believe that Cuba and Venezuela have dictatorships

The latest elections in Uruguay have brought about a change in power, which will pass into the hands of the socialists led by Yamandú Orsi. In his team, the leftist Frente Amplio has included Carolina Cosse as his vice president, another long-time politician in Uruguay with a socialist and internationalist tradition.

Cosse, a follower of communist José Mujica, maintains open dialogues with the regimes of Cuba and Venezuela, which she does not consider dictatorships. She confirmed this in a 2018 interview on the program 'En la Mira,' where despite the presenter's questions, she failed to condemn the dictatorships of these countries.

"I am convinced in the importance of the self-determination of peoples," Cosse assured then, who chose to dodge the answer in this way, faithful to his alignment with the political forum of the Puebla Group, to which Uruguayan leftism belongs, and which acts as an international validator for the regimes of Nicolás Maduro and Miguel Díaz-Canel.

"Cuba is a different society, which has found a different path.... They have their way of participating which is strange to us and different.... It is not a dictatorship," Orsi's now vice-president-elect then hesitantly told the program's host.