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Contrary to popular belief in Uruguay, the capital city's black population is no longer concentrated in neighbourhoods like Barrio Sur, Palermo and Cordon, which were historically home to the majority of African descendents and remain heavily steeped in Afro-Uruguayan culture.

President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will travel to Montevideo, Uruguay, to take part in the Mercosur Meeting, during which she will take over the presidency of the block for a period of six months.

The Marxist revolution continues to sweep South America with the election of Jose Mujica as president of Uruguay.

A former leftist guerrilla clinched victory in Uruguay's presidential run-off election on Sunday, but he did it by moving hard to the center and purposely distancing himself from Venezuela's radical leftist President Hugo Chavez.

Jose "Pepe" Mujica won more than 53 percent of the votes, extending the power of the ruling center-left Broad Front coalition, which is popular with Uruguayans for its mix of social programs and pro-business handling of the economy.

Conservative former president Luis Lacalle of the center-right National Party garnered only 43 percent at the ballot box, failing to gain ground by linking Mr. Mujica to Mr. Chavez.

Mujica won 53 percent of Sunday's vote to 43 percent for former President Luis A. Lacalle.

In this combination of two pictures taken in Montevideo, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009, the two candidates in Uruguay's presidential runoff elections are seen.

From the end of November, Uruguay is likely to have as its president Jose "El Pepe" Mujica - a former Marxist guerrilla who spent over a decade in prison.

Uruguay's likely next president tried to lead an armed revolution as a young man, hiding in sewers, killing a police officer and twice escaping prison through elaborately dug tunnels.

Peru, apparently undeterred by rejection of earlier proposals seeking to contain an arms race in Latin America, has proposed the creation of a South American peace force to avert a regional conflict amid rising tensions and increased arms buying.

Montevideo, Nov 3 Hundreds of Uruguayan unionists support the Jose Mujica-Danilo Astori presidential ticket, for considering that the governing Frente Amplio ticket represents the interests of workers.

Mujica had led in two polls last week, but both showed him falling short of the 50-percent-plus-one vote he needed to win outright.

The frontrunner in Uruguay's presidential election Sunday is a former guerilla commander who once sought to bring a socialist revolution to this South American nation.

Uruguaya s Jose Mujica , a former guerrilla leader who promises to keep the economic policies of the countrya s ruling coalition, heads into presidential elections today with a 16 point lead over his nearest rival.

United Nations, Oct 25 The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Wednesday for a resolution against the US government blockade on Cuba, after 30 Heads of State and Government condemned that seige before that same authority.

Voters in Uruguay faced a stark choice in Sunday's presidential election: an ex-rebel who yearns to create enduring socialism or a former center-right president who privatized government services and wants to pull away from alliances with Latin American leftists.

Uruguay's last dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for 37 homicides during the nation's 1973-1985 military regime, when dissidents disappeared in a region-wide crackdown on leftists called "Operation Condor." Alvarez, 83, was commander-in-chief of the army in 1978-1979 and de facto president from late 1980 until ...

Jose "Pepe" Mujica, Uruguay's most popular politician going into Sunday's presidential election, is no ordinary front-runner. A former guerrilla and committed socialist who twice escaped from prison during the country's 12-year dictatorship and was convicted of killing a policeman in 1971, Mujica is now a grandfatherly figure who captures ...

Montevideo, Oct 16 Uruguayan president, Tabare Vazquez, declared that he was confident of citizen maturity for the coming elections on October 25 to elect "the country we want, we deserve and we can build." "All told, election campaigns are not combats over personal problems but of competence in collective projects, or should be so," referred the ...

Lawmakers in Uruguay have approved an historic transgender law that sets the legal guidelines for people who want to change their gender, the AFP reported.

The bill, which was approved by Uruguay's Senate [official website, in Spanish] on Monday, had been approved by the House of Representatives [official website, in Spanish] last month.