News Uruguay Politics: Uruguay presidential candidate says stars aligning for center-right victory
Education also will be a key plank of his political platform, according to Talvi, who said he plans to create more than 100 "model public" high schools in marginalized areas surrounding Uruguay's ...
News Uruguay Politics: Ex-Mayor, Senator Leading Uruguay Presidential Primaries
Uruguayan primary elections look set to pit a former mayor against a senator in the presidential vote in October, according to early exit polls Sunday evening in the South American country. Polls after ballots closed showed former Montevideo mayor Daniel Martinez and Senator Luis Lacalle Pou winning the nominations for Broad Front and the National Party respectively, the two main factions expected to battle in out later this year. Data from the three main local pollsters Cifra, Equipos and Opcion, after voting closed at 7:30 p.m.
News Uruguay Politics: Qatar- Uruguay opposition posts big win in presidential primaries
Uruguay's electoral court said that, with 99% of the vote counted, the Broad Front had received 23.6% of the overall vote, while the National Party gained 41.6%. The third main political faction ...
News Uruguay Politics: Uruguay ex-Mayor, senator likely winners in presidential primaries: Exit polls
Data from the three main local pollsters Cifra, Equipos and Opcion, after voting closed at 7.30pm indicated that Ernesto Talvi looked set to be the candidate for the Colorado Party, the third main ...
News Uruguay Politics: Uruguay protests role of Venezuela's opposition at gathering
A representative for Uruguay walked out of a meeting of regional countries in Latin America on Thursday leading a protest over the participation of diplomats appointed by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
News Uruguay Politics: Political newcomer linked to Russian tycoon shakes up Uruguay's election
Montevideo, Uruguay — A small, stable, even boring democracy deep south in South America, Uruguay rarely makes international news. But in a region where Chinese and Russian influence is growing ...
News Uruguay Politics: Power outage blacks out Argentina and Uruguay
Uruguay power company UTE said on social media ... The outage also spilled over into local and national politics. Alberto Fernandez, a Peronist presidential candidate looking to unseat incumbent ...
News Uruguay Politics: ‘Massive Failure’ in Power Grid Causes Blackout in Argentina and Uruguay
Uruguay’s UTE also said on Twitter that a malfunction in ... This March, a severe blackout affected virtually all of Venezuela for days, compounding the economic and political crisis that has crippled ...
News Uruguay Politics: “The Short Films of Raymundo Gleyzer”: Works by left-wing filmmaker murdered by Argentine military junta
Similar regimes elsewhere in Latin America, including Chile, Uruguay and Brazil, killed tens of thousands ... and socialist revolution—with disastrous results. Tragically, such politics had nothing to ...
News Uruguay Politics: Mario Benedetti’s Wise, Lonely Novel about Political Exile
a political coalition that unified Uruguay’s historic left-wing parties and provided a home for defectors from the right. When the Uruguayan military seized power, in 1973, the junta swiftly banned ...
News Uruguay Politics: On the initiative of journalists’ association, political parties in Uruguay to sign a pact against misinformation
All political parties with representation in the Uruguayan parliament are set to sign an Ethical Pact against misinformation on April 26. The initiative was born of the Uruguayan Press Association ...
News Uruguay Politics: Uruguay and Brazil secure places at FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
Uruguay and Brazil have reached the final of the South American ... She graduated from the University of Leeds with a first class honours degree in International History and Politics, and also ...
News Uruguay Politics: The Threat of Political Climate Change
In Europe, with the recent exception of Spain, the left has been banished to the political margins ... South Korea, Spain, Uruguay. In so many other places, increasingly illiberal leaders are in ...
