Montevideo, Nov 6 (Prensa Latina) Uruguay looks like a banana republic, former President Jose Mujica deemed on Monday in view of the scandal in force here, after the delivery of a passport to drug trafficker Sebastian Marset.
Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber, a cabinet undersecretary and a chief adviser to President Luis Lacalle Pou will no longer be in the coalition government from Monday, the president announced on Saturday evening. Uruguay's presidency did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Heber's resignation.
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After meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden on Friday in Washington DC, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has a busy agenda ahead of him Saturday back at home after the crisis sparked by the resignation of Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo, who was involved in a cover-up following the highly irregular issuance of a passport to wanted drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.