Uruguayans chose to return the centre-left Frente Amplio (Broad Front) coalition to government, by electing its candidate Yamand煤 Orsi in the run-off presidential election, reports Pablo Meriguet.
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Water-related conflicts are occurring across Uruguay, over its use and control, with big business interests pitted against the right to safe drinking water, writes Mar铆a Noel Gonz谩lez.
Workers and unions led strikes in Uruguay against the right-wing government鈥檚 proposed pension reforms, which include raising the retirement age from 60 to 65, reports Ana Zorita.
People's Dispatch report that聽thousands of Uruguayan workers observed a 24-hour national strike against the right-wing government of President Luis Lacalle Pou.
While there have been some聽major legislative advances for LGBTI聽rights in Latin America, there is still much to be done, writes Erin Fiorini.
The renowned聽artist has died aged 78. A beloved singer-songwriter,聽Viglietti led a generation of great Uruguayan musicians and performers who emerged in the 1960s in creating a unique sound for the era.聽
Along with聽musicians such as Alfredo Zitarrosa and Los Olimarenos, he introduced聽what became known as the 鈥減opular Uruguayan song鈥. This was聽linked to聽the widely popular 鈥淣ueva Cancion鈥 鈥 both a genre and a movement.聽
Throughout his life, Viglietti remained committed to several causes. In 1972, the singer was jailed for opposing military rule in Uruguay.
Environmentalists from Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay marched on August 5 in the department of Paysandu, Uruguay, to protest against oil and gas exploration being carried out by Australian company Petrel Energy. The company鈥檚 exploratory works, and potential exploitation, threaten the integrity of the Guarani Aquifer, one of the world鈥檚 largest deposits of groundwater.
Since 2013, Petrel Energy has been the majority shareholder in the US company, Shues
Andres Garin died in Wollongong in December, aged 77.
Andres was a founding member of Socialist Alliance as well as an activist with the Democratic Socialist Party and its predecessor, the Socialist Workers Party, for whom he ran as a senate candidate in the 1983 federal election.
Andres was a comrade of great integrity and political conviction. He was always a fighter for justice and a better world against capitalist oppression and exploitation here in Australia and internationally, particularly in the struggles in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Internationally awarded Uruguayan author and journalist Eduardo Galeano died on April 13 of lung cancer at age 75 in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
Born September 3, 1940, Galeano was author of about 35 books, including 1971鈥檚 Open Veins of Latin America, which details how Western powers have exploited Latin America and its resources for centuries. It became a bestseller overnight after the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez handed the book a Barack Obama during the fifth Summit of the Americas in 2009.
Since the start of the year, many newspapers have dedicated article after article to predictions of a looming demise of South America's so-called 鈥淧ink Tide鈥
The term 鈥淧ink Tide鈥 is used to refer to the wave of left-of-centre governments elected in South America in recent years.
Several such governments have recently been up for re-election. Pollsters and commentators alike argued that for many, their time in government was up.
Instead, on October 26, Brazilians re-elected Dilma Rousseff as president, ushering in a fourth consecutive Workers鈥 Party administration.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has decided to cancel his visit to Israel, where he had planned meetings with government officials, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on August 6.
Correa cancelled the visit in protest against the atrocities being committed by Israeli forces against the people of Gaza.
Uruguay took on July 31 towards becoming the first country in the world to put its government at the centre of a legal marijuana industry.
President Jose Mujica's Broad Front coalition narrowly squeezed the measure through the lower house of Congress after 13 hours of debate, with all 50 government deputies overriding the 46 opposition MPs present. The measure will now go to the senate, where it is expected to pass.
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