Uruguay

Uruguay

A community portal about Uruguay with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay or the Republic East of the Uruguay , is a nation located in southern part of South America... [more]

A community portal about Uruguay with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Uruguay, officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay or the Republic East of the Uruguay , is a nation located in southern part of South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north, the Uruguay River to the west, the estuary of the Río de la Plata to the southwest, with Argentina on the other bank of both, and finally the South Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. About half of its people live in the capital and largest city, Montevideo. The nation is the second smallest independent country in South America, larger only than Suriname, and is the most politically and economically stable. Uruguay is ranked as the second country in Latin America with less corruption, right after Chile .

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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Sen. Jose Mujica, a former left-wing guerrilla fighter, won Uruguay's presidential election Sunday with more than 50 percent of the vote, exit polls showed. Mujica, who spent 12 years in prison during military ...  
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Montevideo, Uruguay – A former leftist guerrilla clinched victory in Uruguay's presidential run-off election on Sunday, but he did it by moving hard to the center and purposely distancing himself from Venezuela 's radical leftist President Hugo ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — President-elect Jose Mujica retreated to his flower farm and shunned the spotlight on Monday, saying that dumping more talk on Uruguayans after a speech-filled campaign “would be like raining on what is already wet ...  
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Jose Mujica (L), a former member of the leftist guerrilla group Tupamaros who spent 15 years in prison, celebrates with current Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez (R), on 29 November 2009 in Montevideo, Uruguay, after winning Uruguay’s presidential ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A plain-talking socialist who once led an armed revolutionary movement and now scorns “stupid ideologies” won Uruguay’s presidential run-off Sunday, keeping the ruling center-left coalition in power, according to three ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now the president-elect of Uruguay. Jose Mujica won more than 50 per cent of the votes cast in a run-off ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now the president-elect of Uruguay. Jose Mujica won more than 50 percent of the votes cast in a run-off election ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through kidnappings and bombings is now president-elect of Uruguay. Jose Mujica, 74, won more than 50 percent of the votes cast in yesterday's runoff ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A former guerrilla fighter has achieved through the ballot box what he could never earn by bombing, kidnapping and attacking his political enemies – the power to legitimately lead an entire nation. Jose Mujica won 53 percent of the vote, to 43 percent for Luis A. Lacalle, with 97 percent of the vote counted, the electoral court announced Monday. Mujica seemed like he could hardly believe it himself in his rousing...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - A former guerrilla fighter who was jailed for 14 years is poised on Sunday to become Uruguay's next president in a runoff vote seen as a referendum on the economic success of the country's ruling leftist coalition. Jose ...  
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Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) -- Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former Marxist Tupamaro guerrilla fighter, won Uruguay's presidential runoff election Sunday, exit polls showed. Exit polls had Mujica defeating former president Luis Alberto Lacalle by a margin of 4 ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A plain-talking socialist who once led an armed revolutionary movement and now scorns "stupid ideologies" was favored to win Uruguay's presidential run-off Sunday and keep a center-left coalition in ...  
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Uruguay's President-elect Jose Mujica (left) and the current president, Tabare Vazquez, celebrate Mujica's victory Sunday in Montevideo. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- A plain-talking former leader of leftist guerrillas who once sought power through ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Polls are open in Uruguay, where voters choosing a new president must decide between a plain-talking former leftist guerrilla and a smooth politician who represents one of the country's oldest center ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Polls are open in Uruguay, where voters choosing a new president must decide between a plain-talking former leftist guerrilla and a smooth politician who represents one of the country's oldest centre-right parties. Polls suggest ...  
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