The country is preparing for the next presidential elections which will be held on October 27th. The Frente Amplio is currently ahead in the polls. We retrace the political and economic path of this South American country. Located on the Atlantic side of the Southern Cone, and second in extension only to Suriname, Uruguay is…

Despite the privileged position it enjoys and the fertility of its land, Uruguay presents a large disproportion between its territorial area of 176, 215 thousand km², and the number of its inhabitants equal to 3, 5 million, comparable to those of any capital. Of these, approximately 1,381,000 live in the capital Montevideo. In the opinion…

Significant reforms. Opening up to new markets. The presidency of Pepe Mujica. The victory of the socialist Tabaré Vázquez within the Frente Amplio confederation, achieved in the first round with 50.05% of the votes, followed the wave of political change that had affected the Indio-Latin continent since the end of the 1990s and which was…

The affirmation of the current President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, leader of the Partido Nacional de Uruguay, put an end to the government cycle of the Frente Amplio whose candidate was defeated with around 30 thousand votes of difference in the Presidential elections of December 2019. President Lacalle, whose victory is in line with the…