While the people of Montevideo pay taxes for potholes, insecurity, and services that are increasingly failing, Mayor Mario Bergara (Frente Amplio) and his team at the Montevideo City Hall have just presented, with great fanfare, the brand new “Plan for Affective, Sexual, and Gender Diversity in Montevideo 2026-2030.” More than 100 proposals “collectively built” with the usual collectives, to continue advancing towards a “safer, more livable, and inclusive” city.
Translated into everyday Uruguayan: more money from everyone for gender ideology, diversity workshops, specialized secretariats, and rainbow events. Because for the far-left that runs the City Hall, the real problems of the people (expensive housing, unreliable transportation, accumulated garbage, crime) take a back seat. What’s urgent is to have a five-year plan for “affective and sexual diversity.”
The launch event was yesterday in the Red Room of the IM, with Bergara at the forefront, alongside the Director of Social Development, Graciela Villar, the Director of Human Rights Antonella Torelli, and the Coordinator of the Diversity Secretariat, Andrés Scagliola. Everything very participatory, very dialogued, very “with the territories.” That is: with the same militant groups that receive allowances, subsidies, and contracts with the municipality. The classic circuit of public money that goes from the taxpayer to the activist and returns in the form of plans with pompous names.
This is not investment. It is pure ideological waste. The Montevideo City Hall, which is already burdened with deficits, inflated staff, and spending on “sustainable development” and other progressive labels, now adds a mega five-year plan dedicated exclusively to gender and diversity issues. Meanwhile, the flesh-and-blood Montevideans continue to wait for sidewalks to be fixed, streetlights to work, and for their cell phones not to be stolen at their doorstep.
