The Montevideo Standard

An Air Force Helicopter crashed near km 184 of Ruta 9 in Rocha department overnight. The helicopter's 3 crew members were injured to varying degrees. The helicopter and its cargo of 186 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses were a total loss after the wreck caught fire.

On March 13th 2020, most Uruguayos after returning home for the day would not leave their homes again with any regularity until Battle of Las Piedras Day arrived on May 18th. There was no order mandating they stay inside. They simply adopted a fad with enthusiasm.

A 70 year old man defending his home in the Barrio and former national capital of Cerrito de la Victoria killed a 22 year old home invader. The man awoke to the sound of home invaders and confronted three men with his 22 caliber pistol, hitting one. The cadaver was dumped in front of the Instituto Nacional de Ortopedia y Traumatología by the deceased's compatriots who went on to abandon their car in the barrio Malvin Norte.

Former President (2005-2010, 2015-2020) Tabaré Vasquez (1940-2020) died this morning. His first term as President is known for the perceived boom times and high approval that followed a socialist turn in Uruguayan policy. His second term as President is known for stagnation and low approval ratings that came from continuing along the socialist turn implemented during his first term. Vásquez left the Presidency on March 1st of this year when 46 year old Luis Lacalle Pou assumed the presidency following last year's election. President Lacalle Pou declared three days of national mourning for his predecessor.

Uruguay's Expocannabis has fallen with bio-security terror replacing chill vibes in what was once an annual celebration of Uruguay's freedoms.

Efforts to actively police behavior of individuals were impotent to the point of effective absence in practice, but announcements to wear muzzles while walking though demuzzling while seated was permitted were an offensively novel twist on this year's compliance testing by the nag lobby.

Numerous other photos were taken during my incursion into enemy territory, but none were free of marketing messages from parties guilty of collaboration.

Despite a lack of popular fear in Uruguay over the the not particularly deadly coronavirus disease, the Expocannabis's fall is a disturbing turn of events.

On this day in 1980 Uruguay held a referendum which allowed the Armed Forces to step down from the responsibility of governing the country.

After gutting the economy of the British isles, Airstip One's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has begun doubling down on the unforced errors speeding the ruin with further totalitarian orders to autoincarcerate while teasing future plans to "build back poorer" from the self inflicted crisis. Among his solutions to deepen the crisis is an adoption of the "Green" agenda exemplified in a ban on sales of new petrol and diesel motor vehicles after 2030.