The protest movement had grown from a small group of young radicals to a broad front of people from all over society.
Since 1995 the leftist Frente Amplio (Broad Front) has ruled, benefiting from firm commodity prices for natural resources such as wood pulp, as well as beef, wheat and soya.
Although Mr Mujica championed the 2011 law, his predecessor, Tabaré Vázquez, also from the Broad Front, has remained silent.
One of the plaintiffs, Kristie Bell, is a 33-year-old health care employee who lives in a two-story yellow-brick house with a broad front porch, a few blocks from Carson's childhood home.
The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers' union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
In 2005, Vázquez became the first president ever from the Broad Front party — the center-left coalition that has governed Uruguay ever since.
The other part of this argument is the assertion that early starters are actually deterred from introducing on a broad front the new technology they themselves have developed.
Frepaso was founded in 1994 from the left-wing Broad Front, the Christian Democratic Party, and other groups; three years later it formed an alliance with the UCR and in 1999 2001 held the government.
America confronted, he warned, a holy struggle on a broad front -- abortion, gay rights, exclusion of religion from the public square, women in the military.
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