Author name: Nelson Jorge Mosco Castellano

An interested division designed to preserve power

Purchasing power as a measure of individual freedom, institutional discipline, and a constraint on monetary and fiscal expansion.

Short-Termism, Populism, and the Institutional Path to Liberty

The author links the stagnation of some 500,000 Uruguayans to an education, tax, and labor system that, in his view, blocks mobility and demands liberal reforms.

The contradictions between electoral promises, economic responsibility and the exercise of power undermine trust in politics.

Low productivity, tax pressure, and the relentless growth of public spending are reinforcing a structure that punishes the formal sector and pushes economic activity into informality.

Leydis Aguilera’s testimony exposes the contrast between Cuba’s extractive dictatorship and Uruguay’s institutional tradition of individual freedom.

Institutional stability can conceal a process of decline when elites prioritize preserving privileges over competition, innovation, and economic freedom.

A challenge to a ruling by Uruguay’s Electoral Court raises fundamental questions about constitutional interpretation, digital tools and the effective exercise of mechanisms of direct democracy.

State monopolies, competition, data centers and technological innovation reveal new challenges for energy infrastructure and economic development across the Río de la Plata.