Uruguay

Proposed legislation calls into question how far the current government is willing to go to help victims of the dictatorship find justice.

Presidents and activists looked to the life of former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica for lessons on how to defeat the Right.

A former teacher and provincial mayor won a close runoff vote in Uruguay, signaling a return to the social welfare politics of the center-left Frente Amplio coalition.

The 1970 murder of a U.S. police advisor in Uruguay offers lessons for police reform debates today.

Iniciativas de planificación urbana colaborativa promovidas por movimientos de vivienda y el gobierno local en la capital de Uruguay ofrecen oportunidades para que los habitantes marginalizados puedan reclamar espacios en el centro de la ciudad.  

Eduardo Galeano had a unique ability to inspire, to comfort, or to enrage us against the power elites—or, alternatively, to make us smile, sometimes to laugh out loud, or to shake our heads in disbelief.

It has been a year since Uruguay passed an affirmative action law to help repair its historical racism. But where do Afro-Uruguayans stand today?

In 2013, Uruguay was the first nation in the world to legalize marijuana—not through ballot initiatives, but through deliberations within the national legislature.

The "No a la baja" campaign in Uruguay protests a new law coming to vote that would lower the age of criminal responsibility, unfairly pinpointing adolescents as the perpetrators of crime and insecurity.

Leftist politics has always had a complex relationship with women’s struggles, one that many times translates into political exploitation and

"We want to point out that the country's problems will not automati- cally cease with the reinstatement of democratic institutions,"

In an impressive show of dis- pleasure with the military govern- ment which holds the country in a dictatorial grip,