He lives in a humble cottage, drives himself to work in a Volkswagen Beetle and flies economy class. Modest yet bold, liberal and fun-loving, Uruguay is our country of the year. ¡Felicitaciones ...

The country code for Uruguay is +598. This country code, along with the area code, is required to call a telephone number in Uruguay from another country. Also an international dialing prefix, ...

The country legalized homosexuality in 1934 and was the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex parental adoption in 2009 ...

Austin Mullins and Jack Richards, both from the US, relocated from New York to Uruguay after being won over by the South American country’s “strong” LGBTQ protections and “stable political system.” ...

Uruguay is a particular case within Latin American in terms of how strong, stable and traditional its democratic institutions are. The country has also seen recent implementation of policies to ...

Former Uruguayan Vice President Raul Sendic will be transferred to his country in a medical plane from Paraguay, where he was ...

The World Bank has backed Uruguay’s development process for more than 70 years through different instruments, including loans, insurance, donations, technical assistance and knowledge exchange.

The current barriers experienced by women in the job market, for example, cost the country about 14% of its GDP in forgone income. The successes and challenges of Uruguay’s robust social inclusion ...

Voters in Uruguay are going to the polls on Sunday ... as opposed to 61% at the end of his 2005-2010 term, when he was the country's first leftist leader. The economy and unemployment are a ...

2017. Pharmacies in Uruguay start selling marijuana from Wednesday under the final phase of a four-year-old law that made the small South American country the first in the world to legalize pot ...

A large algae bloom at the Río Negro Basin in Uruguay could impact the country's agricultural sector. Authorities in Uruguay warned on Wednesday about cyanobacteria identified in the basin of the ...

The World Bank (WB) announced this week the appointment of US-French Economist Marianne Fay as its new Director for Argentina, Uruguay ... she served as country director for Bolivia, Chile ...