I'm Uruguayan, and the picture you're painting is not quite accurate.
> There's laptops for all kids
This was indeed a great achievement, but not all kids, this is for the public (state) education.
> no taxes on tech companies
This is not like that, there are certain businesses that are exempt from certain taxes because of what they do, but that statemt is simply not true, and taxation in Uruguay is pretty pretty high, 22% VAT plus a very high income tax on basically everything plus all other sort of taxes.
In fact if you're a small tech company in Uruguay, taxation will be a heavy burden.
> free universal education and universal healthcare.
True, but they are completely understaffed and underpaid, the conditions in many of the public hospitals are deplorable, basically no one from upper middle class upwards uses it, you pay for public hospitals with taxes and pay for private sector hospitals.
Where? For whom? There is no such thing as free internet for everyone in Uruguay.
> He's a friendly old uncle figure who everybody finds adorable
I could just show you screenshots of my facebook timeline, some people really hate him, quite a lot in fact, he was involved in guerrilla fighting, that will raise some controversy at least, he is quite popular but the country is very fragmented!
> libertarian marxist
For good or for bad, I don't think his policies have either been libertarian or marxist.
> things are going pretty well
That is if you don't take into consideration small issue like insecurity and extreme poverty.
Hey, I'm not even an opposer of him, he's done some great things in my opinion, but since his media attention and his portrayal of saint, most have seemed to lose there objectivity in something as complicated as politics.
> There's laptops for all kids
This was indeed a great achievement, but not all kids, this is for the public (state) education.
> no taxes on tech companies
This is not like that, there are certain businesses that are exempt from certain taxes because of what they do, but that statemt is simply not true, and taxation in Uruguay is pretty pretty high, 22% VAT plus a very high income tax on basically everything plus all other sort of taxes.
In fact if you're a small tech company in Uruguay, taxation will be a heavy burden.
> free universal education and universal healthcare.
True, but they are completely understaffed and underpaid, the conditions in many of the public hospitals are deplorable, basically no one from upper middle class upwards uses it, you pay for public hospitals with taxes and pay for private sector hospitals.
Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYCS_FHjzU it's in spanish but you'll get a point.
> free internet for everybody
Where? For whom? There is no such thing as free internet for everyone in Uruguay.
> He's a friendly old uncle figure who everybody finds adorable
I could just show you screenshots of my facebook timeline, some people really hate him, quite a lot in fact, he was involved in guerrilla fighting, that will raise some controversy at least, he is quite popular but the country is very fragmented!
> libertarian marxist
For good or for bad, I don't think his policies have either been libertarian or marxist.
> things are going pretty well
That is if you don't take into consideration small issue like insecurity and extreme poverty.
Hey, I'm not even an opposer of him, he's done some great things in my opinion, but since his media attention and his portrayal of saint, most have seemed to lose there objectivity in something as complicated as politics.