Uruguay's new President
♦ Yamandú Orsi took office as Uruguay's new President. ♦ He is a former mayor and history teacher. ♦ He narrowly won the November election against the ruling center-right coalition. ♦ Orsi marks the return of Uruguay’s Broad Front — a centre-left mix of moderates, communists and hardline trade unionists — after a five-year interruption by the country’s outgoing conservative President, Luis Lacalle Pou.