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Tabaré Vázquez, also known as: Tabare Vazquez, Tabare Ramon Vazquez Rosas, born January 17, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay is an Uruguayan politician and current President of Uruguay since March 2005.

When Tabaré Vázquezwas sworn in as president of Uruguay in March of 2005, he made history in his own country and signified the emergence of a new political trend in South America.

A longtime member of the Socialist Party, at the head of a coalition that included former guerrillas, Vázquez became Uruguay's first leftist president, shattering a two-party system that had governed the country for 150 years.

He promised justice for those abused and murdered by a military dictatorship decades earlier. He also joined a growing number of left-wing leaders that govern almost all of South America, presenting a new challenge to the foreign policy of the United States and the free-market reforms it espouses.

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