News Source: Inter Press Service
| about 1 month ago
Uruguay's Electoral Court announced Monday that the governing Broad Front (FA) candidate Jos� Mujica took 47.5 percent of the vote in Sunday's elections, which means he will face off with former conservative president Luis Alberto Lacalle of the...
News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 month ago
A blunt-talking former guerrilla fell just short of a first-round victory in Uruguay's presidential election, according to results Monday, and his conservative opponents have united in hopes of leaping past him in a Nov. 29 runoff. Jose "Pepe" Mujica,...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
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...
News Source: Denver Post
| about 1 month ago
Uruguay — Former guerrilla Jose "Pepe" Mujica easily got the most votes in Uruguay's presidential race, but exit polls suggest he failed to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff. The exit polls suggest Mujica got about 48 percent of the votes...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 month ago
Final results are expected to show that neither candidate captured more than half the vote, meaning they will go to a second round on November 29. One recent poll showed Mujica, from Uruguay's ruling socialist governing coalition, would defeat...
News Source: CNN
| about 1 month ago
Jose Mujica, a former Marxist Tupamaro guerrilla who was the top vote-getter Sunday, will be challenged by Luis Alberto Lacalle, who served as president from 1990-1995...Both candidates predicted victory at separate rallies Sunday night. "We have...