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• History (Uruguay)

  José Mujica: The Uruguayan Warrior at Rest

  13 May, by MONTOYA Roberto

  José Alberto Mujica Cordano (Montevideo, 1935-2025), known as Pepe Mujica, former Tupamaro guerrilla, former MP, former president of Uruguay, passed away on Tuesday, 13 May. On 9 January, he had publicly said farewell after announcing that the metastasis from his oesophageal cancer discovered in (…)

• Uruguay

  Elections in Uruguay. Victory for the Frente Amplio

  30 November 2024, by NAVARRO Ruben

  On Sunday, November 24, the Frente Amplio won the second round of the presidential elections. The ticket made up of Yamandú Orsi and Carolina Cosse obtained 49.8% of the votes compared to 45.9% for the right-wing National Party .
  A clear victory. The coalition-movement, as it is statutorily (…)

• History (Uruguay)

  Fifty years after the Uruguay coup, why so few people have been brought to justice for dictatorship crimes

  26 June 2023, by LESSA Francesca

  Argentina has convicted more people for its dictatorship-era crimes than Uruguay has.
  Uruguay marks 50 years from the beginning of its coup on June 27. On this day in 1973, President Juan Maria Bordaberry and the armed forces shut down parliament and inaugurated 12 years of state terror (…)

• Uruguay

  Stop Finland’s mega pulp mill project in Uruguay!

  5 August 2019, by Collective / Multiple signers

  Finnish multinational UPM announced on July 23^rd that it will install in Uruguay a second pulp mill which will be one of the largest in the world with a production capacity of about 2.33 million tons/year. This megaproject will produce significant environmental, social, and cultural damage. In (…)

• Labour Movement (Uruguay)

  The fall and rise of Uruguay’s trade unions

  1 May 2018, by WACHENDORFER Achim, PADRÓN Álvaro

  Uruguay: Building trade union power
  A case study by Álvaro Padrón and Achim Wachendorfer
  Trade unions in Uruguay enjoy an enviable strength in the Latin American context. The only trade union confederation in the country, the Plenario Intersindical de TrabajadoresConvención Nacional de (…)

• Uruguay

  Uruguay: Building Trade Union Power

  1 November 2017, by WACHENDORFER Achim, PADRÓN Álvaro

  Abstract
  Uruguayan trade unionism is currently experiencing an extraordinary situation, something like a golden era. When the political party alliance Frente Amplio (FA) [Broad Front] took office in 2005, its power resources increased significantly. The FA’s electoral success was also the (…)

• Women (Uruguay)

  Uruguay: President promulgates law decriminalizing abortion

  20 October 2012, by COHEN-DeGOVIA Guillermo C.

  A draft has been approved by Uruguay’s national parliament making it the first South American country to broadly decriminalize abortion, which only exists so far in Cuba, Guyana, Puerto Rico and the Federal District of Mexico.
  The Uruguayan President, José Mujica, promulgated this Monday an (…)