Uruguayan Americans
Overview
Uruguay is a country in South America that measures 68,037 square miles (176,216 square kilometers), approximately the size of the state of Oklahoma. It is located along t...
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Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
República Oriental del Uruguay
CAPITAL: Montevideo
FLAG: The flag, approved in 1830, has four azure blue horizontal stripes on a white background; on a whit...
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Uruguay
Uruguay, a small country of 176,221 square kilometers (68,039 square miles), and the second smallest country in South America, is home to 3.4 million people, roughly half of whom live in the c...
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Uruguay
POPULATION 3,386,575ROMAN CATHOLIC 64.8 percentATHEIST 6.3 percentPROTESTANT 3.3 percentJEWISH 1.2 percentOTHER AND NONAFFILIATED 24.4 percent
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Introduction
The Oriental R...
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Area: 177,879 sq km (68,679 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 3,256,000Capital:
Montevideo
Head of state and government:
President
Tabaré Ramón Vázquez
Rosas
The year 2006 was an eve...
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Hundreds of demonstrators temporarily blockaded the last of three Argentine bridge crossings to Uruguay on Wednesday, sealing all major land routes in an environmental protest against a wood-pulp p...
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(Adds comment from Argentine and Uruguayan presidents, Spanish
minister, byline; changes dateline) By Patricia Avila MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay has granted a
long-awaited start-up permit for F...
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Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez took a campaign of petrodollar diplomacy to Uruguay on Wednesday, seeking stronger political ties while offering energy aid from one of the world's large...
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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - A former Uruguayan dictator
was arrested Monday and charged with secretly transferring
political prisoners who later disappeared and are presumed
dead, a prosecutor said. Gr...
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Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in this rural South American hamlet: Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earli...
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Madrid (dpa) - Argentina and Uruguay did not change their
positions, but agreed to continue talks Friday at a Madrid meeting
seeking a rapprochement in their dispute over a ...
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Madrid (dpa) - Representatives of the Uruguayan and Argentine
presidents met Wednesday in the Spanish capital Madrid to discuss a
conflict over a paper mill which is being b...
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Caracas (dpa) - Defending champion Brazil advanced Tuesday to the
final of the Copa America in Venezuela, defeating Uruguay 5-4 in a
penalty shootout.
Brazil,...
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Madrid (dpa) - Representatives of the Uruguayan and Argentine
presidents continued meeting Thursday in Madrid to seek a
rapprochement in a conflict over a paper mill which i...
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