Uruguay
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ECONOMY
Uruguay Builds a Housing Revolution One Brick—and One Neighbor—at a Time
In a world where affordable housing is slipping out of reach, Uruguay's mutual-aid cooperatives have quietly achieved what markets and…
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SPORTS
Maracanazo at 75 and How Uruguay Still Celebrates the Shock That Brazil Struggles to Forget
Seventy-five years after Uruguay stunned Brazil at the 1950 World Cup, the moment that silenced 200,000 at the Maracanã lives…
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ANALYSIS
Sunrise Riddle Over Uruguay Blends History, Geometry, Topography, And Probability
A single winter dawn each year, the sun shoots a copper beam straight down Avenida 18 de Julio and seems…
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LIFE
Uruguay Dances Until Dawn as Quevedo’s ‘Buenas Noches’ Lights Montevideo
What began as an ordinary reggaetón concert became a dawn-long declaration of joy in Montevideo, where Quevedo—Spain's 23-year-old streaming phenomenon—proved…
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AMERICAS
Uruguay’s Bold Disposable Vapes Ban Boosts Environmental Awareness
Clouds of sweet-smelling vapor drifted down Montevideo’s Avenida 18 de Julio for years. Last month, they vanished overnight, swept away…
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LIFE
Uruguayan Shores and AI Resurrect Long-Lost Ancestors Through Poetic Images
The gentle hush of breakers meets the low hum of processors at Montevideo’s Museum of Migrations, where Uruguayan photographer Federico…
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AMERICAS
Uruguay Revisits Its Dictatorship Era, Painting Faded Faces Anew
Uruguay’s memory of its last military dictatorship reverberates through a striking new exhibition that restores color to the black-and-white faces…
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LIFE
Uruguay’s Past Guerrilla Hero Who Embraced a Shack Over a Palace
José "Pepe" Mujica, Uruguay's beloved former president, has died at the home he shared with his wife, Lucía Topolansky. Through…
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LIFE
Uruguayan Eduardo Galeano: Ten Years On, A Legacy Remembered
Ten years after the passing of Eduardo Galeano, the beloved Uruguayan journalist and writer, friends and family look back on…
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LIFE
Uruguayan Officer’s Macabre Past Exposed in New Crimes Trial
A frightening story reappears. Jorge Néstor Troccoli, a former Uruguayan naval officer, is in prison because of murders during Operation…
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