Tabare Vazquez

Tabare Vazquez, a leftist former cancer specialist, was inaugurated as Uruguay's president Tuesday, promising to bring help to the poor in a country still recovering from the worst recession in its history. Vazquez, who was raised in an impoverished neighborhood of Montevideo as the son of an oil refinery worker, said he would move quickly to implement a $100-million "social emergency" program to aid the indigent and unemployed.