The accessory on the shirt that Luis Lacalle Pou used during his speech at the UN as a gesture in the Uruguayan campaign

After his tour in Celac, Luis Lacalle Pou traveled to New York to meet with investors and deliver his speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

He was wearing a white shirt, a tie with dark blue and white diagonal stripes. The suit was dark, black, but with a navy blue tint. Even though this is what all the images captured, there was a prop that no one else saw.

Journalist Alejandro Figueredo followed Lacalle Pou on his trip to the United States and posted a detail in a tweet: the president was wearing a pair of cufflinks on his non-traditional shirt sleeves.

Cufflinks are usually made of metal, some with inlays or patterns, and some are usually made of fabric as well. Those of Lacalle Pou were in a material associated with the traditions of the countryside, the deep interior of the country and the gauchos. Her twins were adorable.

If in Uruguay and Argentina they are called “twins”, in other places in Latin America they say “collas”, “cufflinks”, “mancuernillas”, “yuntas” in Puerto Rico and Venezuela or ” yugos ”in Cuba. Your goal is to reach the four cuffs of a shirt, at the end of each double cuff.

The origin of these accessories is almost as old as the use of the shirt, but it is probable that the one who put them in fashion was Louis XVI with his “sleeve buttons”, as they were called at the time. At the time, cufflinks consisted of two buttons connected between the cuffs by a chain. Over time, they have become symbols of good times, good taste in men’s clothing and even jewelry.

It was a gift made by Martín Nacimiento, a craftsman from the department of Tacuarembó in the northeast of the country. Lacalle Pou thanked them for the gesture and, of course, as a way to take the homeland against the rest of the world.

Figueredo shared on social media that he has a “color story” to share and attached a photo of the twins. The reactions on Twitter were both applause for the president and criticisms and questions. They even wondered why a journalist should report such a meticulous detail in Lacalle Pou’s clothes.

How was the speech

This Wednesday, September 22, the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle Pou, delivered his speech at the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York.

Among the various topics he referred to, he spoke about how the pandemic has changed the whole world without differentiating between countries. Regardless of size, economy or development, the pandemic has exposed the inequalities and differences in every country. “As well as the democratic quality and the vocation for freedom of the various governments and societies”, he declared.

The call was also present “Responsible freedom” to which the Uruguayan president turned to manage the pandemic in his country and which was his criterion when choosing voluntary quarantines. “Our country, Uruguay, has an immense democratic vocation and a very important appreciation of individual freedom. Freedom as the purest state of the individual. What has been shown in this pandemic, if needed, is that unequal access to tools means freedom can be enjoyed in different ways. And this dichotomy, a false dichotomy between the presence of the state and individual freedom has collapsed. In addition, in countries where the state fulfills the role of protection, the most vulnerable individuals can access tools to exercise their freedom, ”he said.

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