Interest in economic democracy is alive and well in Uruguay, not only among Uruguay's social democrats but among its Christian democrats as well. See Doctrine of the Christian Democratic Party of Uruguay, which calls for a participative and self-managed economy ("una economia participativa y autogentionaria") and a preferential option for social property ("la pluralidad de propiedades y la opcion preferencial por la propiedad comunitaria").

While it is typical of Christian Democratic parties the world over to at least offer some lip service to the "social market economy" the Christian Democrats in Uruguay seem to be a party that is most serious about its support of the popular economy, a degree of support as significant as that given the social economy in northern Italy by progressive Christian Democrats and in the various Catholic parties of the left. Much of the central leadership of Uruguay's Christian Democrats are also leaders in Uruguay's cooperative movements as well.

Uruguay has what is probably the heaviest concentration of cooperatives of all kinds relative to its population, and the ongoing development of the cooperatives in Uruguay is fascinating stuff, at least it is to me!

Various articles on Uruguay's cooperative movement and the popular economy

CUDECOOP Federation