Montevideo Politics News

Around 2.5 million eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday as the vote kicked off at 8:00 a.m. (1000 GMT), as planned. Polling is due to end at 7:30 p.m. (2130 GMT), with initial results expected to be reported...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, 74, presidential candidate of Uruguay's Frente Amplio ruling party, talks to supporters after the country's general elections in Montevideo, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. Mujica, a blunt-talking former guerrilla seeking to maintain the left's hold on power in...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, now a senator, was a member of the rebel Tupamaros National Liberation Movement (MLN) in the 1960s and 1970s. He was eventually captured and held in military prisons for 14 years. A vegetarian who advocates a simple...

The presidential election in Uruguay Sunday is moving toward an uncertain outcome, raising concerns the political and economic stability enjoyed under President Tabare Vazquez may be coming to an end. None of the candidates has emerged as a clear winner,...

Uruguay's Supreme Court on Monday declared unconstitutional a law that has provided amnesty to military officials accused of murders, disappearances and other human rights violations during the country's dictatorship...The law remains on the books, but the ruling could swing voters...

Vila and Bilardo wanted to bring down Grondona," Maradona said. He said Vila turned his media against him as coach once they were unable to harm Grondona directly. Vila owns the television channel America, which employs the journalist that Maradona...

From The Economist print edition The ruling Broad Front’s flower-growing ex-revolutionary is well ahead in the presidential race. But how far left would he push Uruguay if elected? THE son of a dictator, neoliberalism’s booster-in-chief and a roly-poly former guerrilla,...