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	JS Online: Uruguay's President Apologizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jorge Batlle went on national television with President Eduardo Duhalde at the Argentina leader's suburban compound to say he was sorry for his outspoken comments, broadcast a day earlier.
		Batlle's apology came after a taped interview that was widely broadcast in Argentina, marring otherwise close ties between the South American neighbors.
		Batlle has since said he intended his critical comments to be private and that they came at the end of a formal interview focused on Uruguay's own economic troubles.
	www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/jun02/ap-argentina-urugu060402.asp?format=print (529 words)

	José Batlle y Ordóñez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		José Batlle y Ordóñez (May 21 1856 - October 20 1929) was the president of Uruguay from 1903 until 1907 and for a second term from 1911 to 1915.
		He was also the uncle of another Uruguayan president, Luis Batlle Berres and the great-uncle of the former president, Jorge Batlle.
		During Batlle's second term, he began a new movement and referred to it as ''Batllismo'': concerted state action against foreign economic imperialism.
	www.infothis.com /find/Jos%E9_Batlle_y_Ord%F3%F1ez (268 words)

	Curriculum Dr. Jorge Batlle Ibáñez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jorge Batlle Ibáñez took the oath of office as Uruguayan President on March 1, 2000, after having been elected the previous year by popular vote.
		Batlle’s whole career, which he began in 1945 at an early age, is linked to this Party, which is one of the founding political parties of Uruguay.
		Batlle was also a leading promoter and drafter of two Constitutional Amendments, one in 1966 and the other more recently in 1996.
	www.presidencia.gub.uy /pages/curric_eng.htm (1001 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the meantime, Batlle caused a huge diplomatic flap by calling his neighbors in Argentina "a bunch of thieves" and predicting that his Argentine counterpart, Eduardo Duhalde, might be forced to leave the presidency at any moment.
		Meanwhile, the luster of Batlle's human rights record appeared to dim after he chose as a naval attaché in Buenos Aires a navy captain accused of being responsible for the deaths of two Argentines when both countries were ruled by military dictatorships.
		In November Batlle announced that the case of the daughter-in-law of Argentine poet Juan Gelman, detained in Buenos Aires in 1976 and later allegedly made to disappear in Uruguay, was included in a 1986 law that effectively granted amnesty to Uruguay's military and police accused of committing right violations during the military's 12year regime.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/uruguay.htm (1323 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Jorge Batlle: Muy buenas tardes estimada amiga Marcela Sanchez.
		Jorge Batlle: In the last plebiscit those who were in favour of the law were 80 per cent.
		Jorge Batlle: Precisamente la economia del 70 y del 80 under the military regime was terrible and we finish this epoque with a fantastic devaluation.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/01/world_sanchez031501.htm (2187 words)

	Jorge Batlle: se va satisfecho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Batlle, de 77 años, tuvo cinco años al frente del Poder Ejecutivo y aún se recuerda como en la campaña electoral dijo que si ganaba "iba a ser un gobierno divertido".
		Batlle impulsó una política de virtual alineamiento con Estados Unidos que, a su vez, le lanzó en agosto de 2002 un salvavidas de 1 500 millones de dólares como crédito puente para enfrentar la debacle financiera.
		Batlle entrega el mando con un crecimiento del Producto Bruto Interno (PBI) de 12% en 2004, previsiones de un crecimiento de hasta 7% este año, una inflación inferior al 8% y las perspectivas exportadoras de superar los 3 000 millones de dólares, contra 2 977 millones de dólares de 2004.
	www.todito.com /paginas/noticias/171396.html (649 words)

	Jorge Batlle afirma dejar un país en crecimiento - Uruguay www.com.uy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Batlle afirmo que en el 2005 habrá un crecimiento del 7 por ciento del PBI, además de una inflación de un dígito y una baja del desempleo a 10 puntos.
		Batlle subrayó que "lo más importante también que dejamos es que el porcentaje de nivel de pobreza del país, que se mide de marzo a marzo, va a ser sin ninguna duda mucho mejor que el anterior", medido hasta el tercer mes de 2004.
		Según Batlle, sumar un aumento del 7 por ciento durante 2005 al PIB, tras el 12 por ciento de 2004, es una cifra "enorme", que dijo "le va asegurar al gobierno y al país, la tranquilidad de saber que va a seguir creciendo".
	www.uruguay-w.com /articulo49.html (359 words)

	Narco News Names Jorge Batlle Hero of the Year 2000
		President Batlle told the weekly Brecha magazine that he is in favor of legalizing drug consumption.
		Batlle's call for legalization is a commendable act, the first by any head of state, and his courage to say it makes history.)
		Batlle, by having the courage to say what other heads of state know to be true but have been afraid to say publicly, has made history this year.
	www.narconews.com /heroyear2000.html (1183 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		President Jorge Batlle will travel to the United States between Sunday 19 and Thursday 23 to meet with world leaders on the issues of hunger and poverty and to attend the 59 Session Period of the General Assembly of the United Nations, as informed today by the Presidency of the Republic of Uruguay.
		Batlle, who was invited by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, will take part of a summit of world leaders held in New York on Monday 20 with the aim to discuss ideas on cooperation for development and the struggle against hunger and poverty.
		Batlle will also meet with the general secretary of the Organization of American States, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria in Washington on Thursday 23 and will later attend the debate of the 59 Session Period of the General Assembly of the United Nations, to be held at UN headquarters.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4266 (532 words)

	Freedom in the World 2001 - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, Batlle faced a delicate balancing act at national reconciliation, with the armed forces and former leftist guerrillas saying that they had nothing to apologize for, and members of his own party deeply offended that Batlle was stirring up the past.
		Batlle’s help to Gelman, a one-time Montonero guerrilla whose son and daughterin- law were killed by the Argentine military, was seen as an affront to Battle’s longtime rival Sanguinetti, who had accepted throughout his two terms the Uruguayan military’s apparent inability to locate the poet’s granddaughter.
		At the same time, Batlle’s honeymoon with the left, based largely on his willingness to seek answers to what had happened during the military regime, was severely tested by the president’s equally firm determination to reduce spending and taxes and to privatize previously sacrosanct state monopolies.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2002/countryratings/uruguay.htm (977 words)

	NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; December 3, 1999
		The choice was between Batlle as the guardian of the status quo and Vazquez, who promised a "cautious revolution" and an end to the stranglehold on the presidency by the Partido Colorado and Partido Nacional or Blancos.
		Batlle's victory was only possible with the crucial support of former president Luis Alberto Lacalle (1990-1995) and his Partido Nacional.
		Batlle promised to convoke the leaders of the business community and unions in December for a "great social dialogue" on topics that include competition, labor negotiations, professional formation, and unemployment insurance.
	ssdc.ucsd.edu /news/notisur/h99/notisur.19991203.html (3425 words)

	Uruguay - Extended information
		The election of José Batlle y Ordóñez to the presidency in 1903 caused the Blancos to fear the agreement would be discarded because the Colorado Party now held a large majority of votes.
		During the second presidential term of José Batlle y Ordóñez, between 1911 and 1915, social legislation was enacted, and Uruguay soon became known as the most progressive nation in South America.
		Batlle never succeeded in establishing a policy of agrarian reform because rural landowners had sufficient power in the legislature to block such reforms.
	www.wool.com.uy /uruguay2.htm (5449 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Batlle is representing Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with associate members Bolivia Chile) at a forum on Latin America organised by the foreign ministry of Italy, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Council.
		Batlle said he fears that the expansion of the EU from its current 15 members to 25 (with 10 nations of Central and Eastern Europe slated to join the bloc) will delay efforts to "seek understandings based on the conversations that were coming along in Cancun."
		Batlle says there are no tensions in Mercosur resulting from the ideological differences between a liberal like himself, and the more left-leaning presidents Néstor Kirchner, of Argentina, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvia, of Brazil.
	www.ipsnews.org /print.asp?idnews=20642 (1319 words)

	CNN - Uruguay's president-elect faces economic, political challenges - November 29, 1999
		MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Jorge Batlle, the president- elect of Uruguay, has a tough task ahead of him: repairing the nation's ailing economy while trying to gain support from a strong opposition party.
		Batlle, the 72-year-old son and great nephew of past Uruguay presidents, narrowly won Sunday's runoff election with 51.6 percent of the vote.
		National media portrayed Batlle's victory as a sign of support for Sanguinetti's economic policies, which have been credited for cutting the nation's annual average inflation rate from 30 percent over the last three decades to about 3 percent this year.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9911/29/uruguay.election (299 words)

	JS Online: Uproar After Comments on Argentina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jorge Batlle made the characterization in excerpts of an interview carried by local Argentine television and radio.
		Batlle said he thought he was speaking off the record when he was asked about the efforts of Argentine leaders to pull the country out of a four-year recession.
		You know the amount of corruption in Argentina,'' Batlle was quoted as telling an interviewer on the tape, which was carried by Radio Rivadavia.
	www.jsonline.com /news/intl/ap/jun02/ap-argentina-urugu060302.asp?format=print (413 words)

	El nervioso exabrupto de Jorge Batlle - Nueva Mayoría.com
		Luis Batlle, presidente uruguayo a fines de los años 40 y nuevamente a mediados de los 50, fue el padre del actual presidente Jorge Batlle.
		Batlle indicó posteriormente que el día de la entrevista con la cadena de TV era el primero en el que salía del stress de constatar durante cinco meses el constante deterioro del país, que podría haber llevado a “una situación insalvable” de acuerdo con sus propias palabras.
		La buena noticia que finalmente recibió Batlle apenas poco antes de la desdichada entrevista que lo llevó a la exasperación, fue que el FMI pondría hasta 1500 millones de dólares en préstamos a Uruguay, lo que aleja el fantasma del default.
	www.nuevamayoria.com /ES/ANALISIS/rial/020710.html (1044 words)

	Uruguay President Wants Drug War to Stop
		Batlle's remarks were the latest moves in an incipient effort by Uruguay and its Mercosur partners -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay -- to chart an independent path out of the US-led drug war quagmire.
		Although Batlle spoke out weeks ago, on November 20th at the 10th Latin American Summit of Heads of State in Panama City and at the December 1st inauguration of Vicente Fox in Mexico City, both events well-attended by the international media, American media consumers never knew it happened.
		The 72-year-old Batlle won the presidency this year as head of the so-called conservative 'Colorado' Party, which defeated a coalition of centrist and left parties.
	www.progress.org /drc46.htm (859 words)

	Latinamerica Press: Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lawyer Jorge Batlle, the 72-year-old candidate of the governing Colorado Party, reversed the results of the first round of presidential voting in Uruguay, snatching victory from socialist candidate Tabaré Vázquez, 59, in the presidential runoff on Nov. 28.
		Batlle, who ran unsuccessfully for president in 1966, 1971, 1989 and 1994, was helped to victory by votes from the National or White Party, which in the past has been a traditional enemy of the Colorados.
		Batlle said his government will seek “the active participation of all citizens to move into the next century with the ideals of progress, liberty, democracy, tolerance and respect for one another.”
	www.latinamericapress.org /article.asp?lanCode=1&artCode=1977 (620 words)

	La peripecia de jorge batlle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Batlle despejó, asumiendo la representación del país, todas las dudas con respecto a la posición sobre la invasión estadounidense y británica a Irak.
		Batlle dijo: "El primer objetivo que el gobierno vino a buscar a Estados Unidos es decirle al presidente Bush, mano a mano y cara a cara, que Uruguay está agradecido por lo que ha hecho.
		Rico recordó que Batlle asumió el gobierno con una aureola de conocedor y que sistemáticamente sus anuncios iniciales se han derrumbado, lo que ha provocado una fuerte deslegitimación de su discurso a nivel nacional.
	www.ps.org.uy /noticias532.htm (1151 words)

	Samuel Blixen: Uruguay: La negociación de Jorge Batlle con Estados Unidos
		En febrero de 2002, Batlle había confundido la amistad de los Bush con la solución automática de los problemas, y así había anunciado la superación del problema de capitalización del Banco Comercial.
		Batlle se enojó muchísimo con los directores blancos, con los foristas e incluso con su correligionario, el presidente Daniel Cairo.
		Si Batlle pudo, a último momento, eliminar ese foco de problemas, en cambio multiplicó otro, cuando aprobó, junto con su ministro de Educación y Cultura, la observación al contrato que El Correo firmó con la Asociación de Diarios.
	www.lainsignia.org /2003/febrero/ibe_007.htm (1884 words)

	Colorado Party (Uruguay) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some of its major historical leaders were Fructuoso Rivera, Venancio Flores, José Batlle y Ordóñez, Luis Batlle Berres, Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo and Jorge Batlle.
		At the last legislative elections, 31 October 2004, the party won % of the popular vote and out of 99 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and out of 31 in the Senate.
		Its presidential candidate, Jorge Luis Batlle Ibáñez, won the same day 10.4 % of the popular vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colorado_Party_(Uruguay) (173 words)

	MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
		A busy week ahead for Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle who is travelling to Brasilia to meet with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, president of Latinamerica’s largest and most influential country that has begun a strong regional political integration persuasion policy, hoping to muster sufficient support in South America to counterbalance the powerful George Bush administration.
		Batlle however is a close friend of the Bush family, an advocate of open markets and closer relations with the United States, and recently sponsored in the United Nations Human Rights Commission an initiative regarding Cuba in spite of Brazilian and Argentine abstention.
		Batlle will be hosting Argentine caretaker president Eduardo Duhalde, who in two weeks time (May 25) will be leaving office and handing the presidential sash most probably to his hand picked successor and winner of the coming May 18 run off, Mr.
	www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=2155 (608 words)

	The GULLY \| Gay Mundo \| Uruguay: Prez Disses Gays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Uruguayans woke up on January 12 to the news that their President, Jorge Batlle, had dissed gays in, of all places, The New York Times.
		Batlle can also get carried away with his own glibness and say things that can be hurtful.
		They're afraid that if Batlle gets away with his public expression of homophobia, life could get more unpleasant for queers in Uruguay, both the relatively few who are out and the tightly closetted majority.
	www.thegully.com /essays/gaymundo/010205uruguay.html (503 words)

	TheExperiment - Uruguay president seeks drug legalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Batlle, a blunt free-market reformer, questions the costs and effectiveness of a drug war whose primary theater of battle is Latin America.
		Batlle's endorsement of legalization has been measured and civilized.
		Batlle's voice may be small and symbolic, the verve with which he speaks out on the issue at regional meetings of presidents and journalists probably will contribute to a growing debate.
	www.theexperiment.org /articles_printer.php?news_id=1118 (414 words)

	Uruguay: The case of Simón Riquelo: A 25-year-struggle for truth and justice - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Dr. Jorge Batlle Ibáñez took office as President of Uruguay at the beginning of March 2000, he committed himself to clarifying the fate and whereabouts of those who ''disappeared'' in Uruguay during the 12 years of military rule.
		In August 2000, the Uruguayan president, Jorge Batlle, took his initial commitment to clarify the fate and whereabouts of the "disappeared" a step further by establishing a special commission, Comisión para la Paz, Peace Commission, to clarify the fate of all those Uruguayans who "disappeared" between 1973 and 1985.
		In addition, the organization is also concerned that whereas President Jorge Batlle has shown the political will to clarify the fate of the ''disappeared'', bringing the perpetrators of these crimes to justice is prevented in Uruguay by an amnesty law.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAMR520012001?open&of=ENG-URY (2237 words)

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