Alberto Couriel Curiel (born 1935 in

Juan Lacaze Juan Lacaze, or Juan L. Lacaze, is a city located in southwestern Uruguay, within the Colonia Department. Geography The city is located on Route 54 in southern Colonia, (by road) east of the city of Colonia del Sacramento, and west of Montevide ...

) is a Uruguayan

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and

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, belonging to the Broad Front coalition. He served as Representative (1990–1995) and then as Senator (since 1995). He was a vocal critic of several

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s. He has written several works on Latin American economics: ''De la democracia política a la democracia económica y social'' (1999), ''Globalización, democracia e izquierda en América Latina'' (1996), ''Pobreza y subempleo en América Latina'' (1983), and "La izquierda y el Uruguay del futuro"(2004).

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