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Montevideo, December 22nd 2024 - 12:50 UTC

Tag: Uruguay elections 2019

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 18:58 UTC

    Uruguayan Conservative Party integrates neo-Nazi member

    The candidate and former commander said Tuesday at a press conference that they will expel the member from party if “his link to Nazism is confirmed.”

    The political party of the former commander in chief of the National Army and candidate for president of Uruguay, Guido Manini Ríos, faces for the second time in a month an internal resolution on a member with a neo-Nazi past.

  • Monday, July 1st 2019 - 09:59 UTC

    Uruguay: No surprises in a primary with a record of candidates

    The former mayor of Montevideo, Daniel Martínez (right), Senator Luis Lacalle Pou (center) and the liberal economist Ernesto Talvi (left): the three candidates for the presidency of Uruguay

    In a primary election full of new faces and overshadowed by accusations of “dirty” campaigns, there were no surprises in the results of the internal elections of Uruguay's main political parties, according to the data of the pollsters. Daniel Martínez (Frente Amplio), Luis Lacalle Pou (National Party) and Ernesto Talvi (Colorado Party) will represent the three parties with the greatest adhesion in the country, starting a new stage in the national elections in October.

  • Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

    Uruguayan president caught on the wrong foot forced to sack six generals and minister of Defense

    President Vazquez will have three different Army chiefs in less than a month

    Uruguay’s president has been involved in an embarrassing incident which forced him on Monday to remove the commander in chief of the army, the Defense Chief of Staff and four other generals for allegedly covering up that a retired member of the military committed a crime during the 1973-1985 dictatorship.