The 'international contact group' of European and Latin American countries, who will mediate in Venezuela, meets for the first time on Thursday. That happens in the Uruguayan capital...
Once he was 'the poorest president in the world' and even after his resignation as senator this week it is not a fat spot. José Mujica refuses a pension for the five years he was in the Senate after the same period as President of Uruguay.
A plane with two people aboard crashed on Monday in Uruguay during the commemoration of an airplane in the Andes in 1972. The passenger did not survive the crash.
One of Italy's most sought after mafia bosses, Rocco Morabito, has been fleeing in Uruguay after 23 years. According to the Italian Interior Minister, Morabito is one of Italy's most dangerous mafia bosses. He is a member of N'drangheta.
A massive cargo ship is missing from 24 people on board off the coast of the South American Uruguay. The 312 meter long Stellar Daisy, owned by a South Korean company would have water.
The last dictator of Uruguay, General Gregorio Alvarez, is deceased at the age of 91. Which announced a military hospital in Montevideo, Uruguayan media said.
