Uruguay’s popular former president José Mujica reveals he is dying of cancer
‘My cycle is over,’ says leftwinger, 89, who lives humbly and oversaw one of healthiest and most liberal democracies José Mujica, the former guerrilla who...
Category : Uruguay
Uruguay election: opposition centre-left figure Yamandu Orsi wins presidential runoff
Former history teacher says the ‘horizon is brightening’ as all political rivals pledged to work together to move the country forward Centre-left opposition candidate Yamandu...
Uruguayan woman given proper burial 47 years after abduction by dictatorship
Amelia Sanjurjo, a member of Uruguay’s Communist party who disappeared in 1977, was identified and laid to rest A Uruguayan woman who was abducted by...
Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate
South American neighbours respond to blocking of Corina Yoris, who was favoured to beat strongman Nicolás Maduro in elections A chorus of Latin American nations,...
Drought leaves millions in Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking
After years of underinvestment, reservoir has had to be topped up from estuary, raising health concerns More than half of Uruguay’s 3.5 million citizens are...
France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America
Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil Unseasonably high temperatures have been...
