Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday's presidential election between a former rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism and a former president who would distance the nation from leftist Latin American governments.
Uruguayans also considered a voter initiative to remove amnesty for human rights abuses under the 1973-85 dictatorship.
Jose "Pepe" Mujica, the former guerrilla and candidate of the ruling leftist coalition, was the clear front-runner, but polls suggested he would narrowly miss the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
His closest rival, center-right candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle, pushed hard to privatize government as …
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