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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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Often overlooked, but never disappoints should be the motto of Montevideo, Uruguay. Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and main port of Uruguay. Many people would never guess that Montevideo has the highest quality of living of any city in ...Contributor: Rick LimpertPublished: Nov 13, 2009  
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Spanish group Codere will choose one of five companies to refurbish the Carrasco hotel casino in Montevideo, Uruguay, including local firms Saceem, Campiglia and Teyma as well as Argentine companies Caputo and Riva. A decision is likely to be made ...  
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Argentine hotel chain Fen will open a boutique hotel in Montevideo. The hotel will be located in the same building where Cervantes hotel was, now a listed building. Fen will invest over USD 8mn (EUR 5.33mn) in the project. The hotel will be called ...  
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11/11/09 Beunos Aires, Argentina – We did some thinking yesterday, on our trip to Uruguay. Why Uruguay? We thought we should have a look around. Montevideo is a cheap place to live. It’s on the sea, with beaches near the downtown area. It is an old town, with many fine buildings. It is clean. It is safe. It has history too. When the English invaded Buenos Aires, the Spaniards launched a counterattack from the fortress at Montevideo and got it...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uruguay Mineral Exploration Inc. (“UME” or Company”) (TSX VENTURE:UME) (LSE:UGY), and Fortune Valley Resources Inc. (“Fortune Valley”) (TSX Venture Exchange: FVX) announce today that on November 8, 2009 they signed a definitive arrangement agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) to combine their respective businesses (the “Transaction”). In connection with the Transaction, UME has agreed to acquire all of...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez surprisingly included midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro in his squad Thursday to face Costa Rica in a two-game playoff for a spot in next year's World Cup finals in South Africa. Loderio played for ...  
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MONTEVIDEO - Nacional's exciting young midfielder Nicolas Lodeiro was named on Thursday in a 26-man Uruguay squad for the World Cup play-off against Costa Rica. The uncapped 20-year-old, who has helped Nacional to the top of the Uruguayan Apertura ...  
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Montevideo. Uruguayan police seized a large weapons cache over the weekend in an operation during which two people were killed, including a police officer, Xinhua News Agency informed. The cache was found accidentally when firemen were fighting a ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday. His conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov.29 runoff ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - Former guerrilla leader Jose Mujica, 74, won Uruguay's presidential election Sunday with around 50 percent of the vote, according to exit polls taken by television stations. If the figure matches or exceeds 50 percent in the ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday's presidential election between a former rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism and a former president who would distance the nation from leftist Latin American governments ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The presidential election in Uruguay Sunday is moving toward an uncertain outcome, raising concerns the political and economic stability enjoyed under President Tabare Vazquez may be coming to an end. None of the ...  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Uruguay's last dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for 37 homicides, including forced disappearances in "Operation Condor" when South America's military regimes co-operated to crush leftist dissent in the late 1970s.  
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Jose "Pepe" Mujica, Uruguay's most popular politician going into Sunday's presidential election, is no ordinary front-runner. A former guerrilla and committed socialist who twice escaped from prison during the country's 12 ...  
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Associated Press Writer= MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) â Uruguay's Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional a law that has provided amnesty to military officials accused of murders, disappearances and other human rights violations during the ...  
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