MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations ...

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Olive oil producers in Uruguay enjoyed a record-setting harvest in 2019, according to a new report compiled by Uruguay’s Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries. In effect Uruguay produced ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay's leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country's new president in a tight runoff Sunday, ousting the conservative governing coalition and making the ...

In 2004 when Tata Group boss Ratan Tata and then TCS CEO Subramanian Ramadorai started searching for a springboard into Latin America, they were skeptical of Uruguay. One visit to the country ...

Gay couples in Uruguay can begin to marry in mid-July, after lawmakers passed historic legislation legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday. The South American country is now the second in the region ...

In light of The Economist’s surprising choice of Uruguay as its first ever “country of the year,” we have a post on Uruguay’s successes in building a more sustainable economic and social model. Here ...

On Wednesday, after 13 hours of contentious debate, the lower house of Uruguay's General Assembly narrowly approved a landmark marijuana-legalization bill, 50 to 46. The Senate, controlled by a bigger ...

Can you imagine legally growing marijuana in your backyard? How about walking down to the corner pharmacy to buy a gram or two of ready-to-smoke pot? Starting Tuesday, this scenario will no longer be ...