Uruguayan authorities will be convening Monday to decide which steps to take in the face of an avian flu outbreak in Brazil's ...

Mexico, Chile and Uruguay have halted poultry imports from Brazil after the country confirmed its first bird flu outbreak on ...

Uruguyan savers who invested in a "cow bond" scheme can't find their animals or prove they even exist, making them part of a ...

The Uruguayan government has declared three days of national mourning in honor of the late former President Jose "Pepe" ...

Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, a leftist icon known for his progressive social reforms, died on Tuesday at the age ...

In the soaring palace of Uruguay’s parliament, left-wing presidents from the region have come to remember former President ...

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, ...

Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former President Jose Mujica, ...

Jose “Pepe” Mujica, a former leftist rebel who became Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, has died at the age of 89. Uruguayan President Yamandu Orsi announced his death in a social media ...

The former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 earned his nickname because of his modest lifestyle.

“Las Liebres, Tejiendo Vínculos” (“Hares, Weaving Links”) is a group that works for free to help families in need whose children are in the hospital, providing basic things like blankets or food.

He earned admiration at home and cult status abroad for legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage, enacting the region's first sweeping abortion rights law and establishing Uruguay as a leader in ...