Frente Amplio leader Yamandú Orsi, who won last Sunday's presidential run-off plays up ties to ex-president Jose 'Pepe' ...

In an interview with Le Monde ahead of the second round of the country's presidential election on Sunday, November 24, the ...

Uruguay ousted its conservative government that had been in charge for the past five years, as leftist opposition candidate ...

The center-left former mayor returns the Broad Front to power but will face a divided parliament.

MONTEVIDEO, Nov 23, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Uruguay's ex-president Jose Mujica, a hero of the left but ailing at 89, has drawn on ...

Left-wing candidate Yamandu Orsi was projected to win Uruguay's presidential election, media reported Sunday, in a rebuke by ...

Uruguay's next president is a former history teacher who swapped the classroom for local government -- and will now lead the ...

Despite battling cancer and old age, Mujica -- widely known as "Pepe" -- has come out guns blazing, railing against avarice, corporations and outgoing President Luis Lacalle Pou. Mujica's Frente ...

One afternoon, in 1970, José “Pepe” Mujica was talking with other men at a table in La Vía bar, in Montevideo, Uruguay. A regular recognized them as Tupamaro guerrillas and reported them. The police ...

Leftist candidate Yamandú Orsi has won Uruguay 's presidency in a closely contested runoff election. Orsi's win ushers in a return of the Broad Front, the party that governed for 15 consecutive years ...

Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandú Orsi, became the country's new president in a tight runoff election that ...

Left-wing politician Yamandu Orsi was elected president of Uruguay, official results showed on Sunday, in a rebuke by voters ...