Uruguay's ex-president Jose Mujica, a hero of the left but ailing at 89, has drawn on his last reserves to campaign far and wide for the man seen as his heir apparent ahead of elections Sunday.

Montevideo (Uruguay) (AFP) – Uruguayans go to the polls Sunday with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose ...

Delgado of outgoing president Luis Lacalle Pou's ruling coalition, and Yamandú Orsi, of the left-wing Frente Amplio coalition ...

Uruguayan center-left opposition leader Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, is the ...

Uruguay Election Frontrunner Yamandu Orsi ... He has backing from leftist icon Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former rebel-turned-president, but also moderate groups who like his business-friendly tone.

Uruguay is undergoing political dynamics similar to those at work in the rest of Latin America: governments swing from one ...

Homicide rates in Uruguay have risen sharply in recent ... He has backing from leftist icon Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former rebel-turned-president, but also moderate groups who like his business ...

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Sociedad Uruguaya de Aviación (SUA), a privately owned company, has begun the process of becoming Uruguay's new flag ... The then-government of José 'Pepe' Mujica decided to terminate the ...

The next mayor of Uruguay's capital is a woman ... Radicals and ex guerrillas turned politicians under ex president Jose Mujica. Nevertheless in good Uruguayan political tradition, Ms Raffo ...

He then went on to serve two terms as the mayor of Canelones (2015–2020, 2020–2024), Uruguay’s second-most populous ...