Uruguay: Pepe Mujica, hero, populist, or demagogue?
President Mujica's humble life and style have been widely popular, but not everyone likes or respects him. Javier Farje reports from Montevideo.
Uruguay: Welcome offered to Guantanamo detainees
President Mujica has accepted a US proposal to accept Guantanamo detainees as refugees.
Brazil 1964: Never again!
March 31 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, which ushered in the era of dictatorships in Latin America.
Uruguay: saying ‘no’ to open pit mining
Hundreds demonstrate in Montevideo against large London-based iron ore project
Uruguay – agribusiness is wiping out family farming
Large-scale commercial farming, particularly of soya, is imposing GMOs and destroying rural livelihoods.
Galeano’s Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History
A new book by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano illustrates human potential through poems, tales, histories and observation.
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
We support community action on HIV, health and human rights in order to bring about an end to AIDS. Our vision is of a world in which communities have brought an end to HIV transmission and secured their health and human rights.
URUGUAY: IMPUNITY REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAIN
The removal of a key judge from criminal cases is a victory for impunity and apologists for the dictatorship
Faces of Latin America, 4th edition
A new edition of Faces of Latin America, a vital source of information on Latin America, has been published.
A conversation with Eduardo Galeano
“Two centuries of workers’ gains thrown into the garbage can” says the famous Uruguayan writer.
