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 ...

Uruguay's government has approved seismic studies in deep waters of the South Atlantic to determine whether the country has ...

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 2007, Uruguay had a massive problem with no obvious fix. The economy of this country of 3.5 million people was growing, but there wasn't enough... How did Uruguay cut carbon emissions? The answer ...

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 ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – The Uruguayan government is issuing passports to five of the six former Guantanamo prisoners now living in Uruguay, a weekly publication, Busqueda, reported Thursday. They will ...

Uruguay stands out in Latin America for being an egalitarian society, with high per capita income and low levels of poverty and inequality. In relative terms, its middle class is the largest in Latin ...

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 ...

Uruguay's former President José Mujica arrives to cast his vote in Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José ...

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 ...