MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – Syrian refugees protested outside the Uruguayan presidency Monday to demand authorities help them leave for other countries, saying the nation that gave them sanctuary is ...
Uruguay has a history of passing socially liberal laws, legalising marijuana, same-sex marriage and abortion long before many ...
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – A resettled former Guantanamo detainee who alarmed some officials when he recently went missing for several weeks is planning a hunger strike to demand he be allowed to ...
After a decade-long debate, Uruguay's Senate approved a 'Dignified Death' law, making the country one of the first in Latin ...
Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) released a report last week showing the country's dwindling birth rate, the ...
"Life is a right, both in health and in sickness, but it should never be an obligation," one Uruguayan senator argued before the final vote to legalize the process.
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Voters in the small South American nation of Uruguay picked a new president Sunday in a race between two moderates that defied regional trends of bitter division and ...
Uruguay on Wednesday legalized euthanasia, becoming one of the first countries in Latin America and among a dozen worldwide ...
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former Guantanamo prisoner who was resettled in Uruguay but has asked to leave was denied entry to South Africa by that country's migration authorities, a Uruguayan official ...
Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media post on ...