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‘Poorest president’ donates 90% of his salary How's this as a man of the people: The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has earned a nickname, "el presidente mas pobre" (translation: "poorest president"). The 77-year-old recently admitted to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he donates almost all of his presidential... » read this article

BUENOS AIRES - The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land. Despite slight differences between them, the proposed measures are generally fairly mild. None of these three member countries of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur)... » read this article

When you hear the phrase “The Road to the World Cup,” it usually refers to the qualifying process that takes place every four years. Center Line Soccer managing editor Jay Hipps wanted to start at the beginning, so he brings us this report from Montevideo, Uruguay, the site of the... » read this article

Bodhi Thunder In the United States we have sell out politicians and millionaire Congress persons. But in Uruguay they have a President, Jose Mujica, that owns very little. So little that his entire asset is a 1987 VW Beetle. His total net worth is about a couple thousand of dollars... » read this article

“The donkey is an intelligent animal because it never forgets where it can eat.” – Farmer, Ex-Guerrilla and current Uruguayan President José “Pepé” Mujica, in an interview with La Brecha. The smell of fried food and sausage sandwiches filled the Montevideo air as José “Pepe” Mujica assumed the presidency of... » read this article

Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez rejected on Friday the presence of foreign military bases in South America, and urged to resolve the differences among regional countries at the negotiation table.   Addressing the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) summit in this Argentinean city, the statesman recalled that successive Uruguayan governments... » read this article