Descendants of some of the 1,053 Australian men who died in a WWII disaster say they are glad the story of the Montevideo ...

URUGUAY: An agreement to draw-up a master plan to revitalise and modernise the national railway system has been signed.

Uruguay's coastal capital of Montevideo, only a short ferry ride from bolder Buenos Aires, may seem an unlikely choice for a foreign correspondent. This slower-paced port city overlooking the ...

Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, is the kind of city where a lot of travellers are “just passing through.” It’s easy to understand why, given the city’s location, about halfway between ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi have been partners on the pitch for several years. Now they're teaming up off it as businessmen. Suárez announced on Tuesday he has founded a ...

Lima Newsroom, May 24, 2025 / 09:00 am Uruguayan Cardinal Daniel Sturla anticipates that Pope Leo XIV’s first visit to Latin America “will include Argentina, Uruguay, and possibly Peru” on ...

Uruguay’s mourning for a rebel-turned-president brings decades of upheaval into perspective José (Pepe) Mujica spent over a decade in prison for resisting the state he would one day lead.

As Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015, Jose Mujica continued to drive a battered sky-blue Volkswagen Beetle and to lunch in workaday bars on the main street of Montevideo, the capital.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay: Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philoso ...

Tributes flooded in from Latin America on Tuesday after Uruguay's ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a leftist icon known for his humility and progressive policies, died at 89. The former guerrilla ...

As Uruguay’s president from 2010 to 2015 he continued to drive a battered sky-blue Volkswagen Beetle and to lunch in workaday bars on the main street of Montevideo, the capital.

Uruguay' s former president Jose "Pepe" Mujica, an ex-guerrilla fighter and hero of the Latin American left, has died at the age of 89, the government said Tuesday. The humble leader -- who once ...