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Uruguay Students
Student organizations have had little influence on
their own,
but they often supported the demands of labor unions and
other
groups. The University of the Republic, Uruguay's only
public
university, played a key role as an opposition force
during the
administrations of Pacheco (1967-72) and Juan María
Bordaberry
Arocena (1972-76). Shortly after taking office,
Sanguinetti
ordered the restoration of the legal status of the
Federation of
Uruguayan University Students (Federación de Estudiantes
Universitarios del Uruguay--FEUU). The military regime,
whose
generals regarded the university as a center of leftist
subversion, had banned the FEUU. University of the
Republic
student elections were held twice during the Sanguinetti
administration, and student groups resumed campus
political
activities. As a result of the June 1989 university
elections,
leftists retained their dominance in 1990.
Data as of December 1990
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