"Life is a right, both in health and in sickness, but it should never be an obligation," one Uruguayan senator argued before ...

Uruguay legalized euthanasia on Wednesday, becoming the first country in Latin America to pass a law that allows terminally ...

Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets on Friday, demanding their government's recognition of the ongoing humanitarian ...

Officials hailed the law's passage as reinforcing Uruguay's reputation as among the most socially liberal nations in the ...

Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, putting the South American nation among a handful of other ...

Although the law does not outright ban euthanasia for those with mental conditions like depression, it requires that patients ...

Uruguayan soccer player Juan Izquierdo died Tuesday at a hospital in Brazil five days after collapsing during a game at Sao Paulo. He was 27. Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said in a statement ...

Jose Mujica is a politician and former president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, at his farm near Motevideo city, on April 13, 2011. Photo by Ricardo Ceppi/Getty Images. They called him the world’s ...

José Mujica: in his earlier life as a guerrilla, he had spent two years incarcerated in a hole in the ground, keeping his sanity intact by befriending a frog - SOFIA TORRES/AFP José Mujica, who has ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAO PAULO (AP) — Uruguayan soccer player ...