Survivors of a plane crash near Argentina on Tuesday are airlifted to safety. A small private plane with nine people on board crashed into the Rio de La Plata close to Argentina, killing five people. The plane took off from Argentina and was en route to Carmelo, Uruguay, when it crashed. Two survivors escaped with minor injuries, while two others are reportedly in a serious condition Continue reading......
Interview with the former Marxist guerrilla turned president, who shares his views on same-sex marriage, drugs and abortion For many years he would go to bed early listening to what ants whispered in his ear. Sometimes he would chat with a frog or two, maybe share a hunk of bread with some rats. José Mujica , aka Pépé, is a survivor from a world he himself wiped off the map. A...
Debate among health experts switches to regulation of cannabis as drug policy in US, Uruguay and Spain flouts UN conventions Legalisation of cannabis is making slow but unstoppable progress across much of the developed world, many experts believe, following the end of prohibition in two US states. In Amsterdam, long famous for its coffee shops, identifiable by pictures of marijuana outside and fumes...
Key countries in which UN conventions prohibiting the use, possession and supply of cannabis are being increasingly flouted, or strictly observed Continue reading... ...
Leaked details of overdue new regulations for legal market intended to thwart illegal resales Uruguay is to limit marijuana sales to 10 grams a week for each licensed user when it publishes the rules for its legal market. The full set of rules are already two weeks overdue. Continue reading... ...
Raúl Fernando Gómez Circunegui reported to have eaten rats and raisins to survive after trying to cross mountains on foot A 58-year-old Uruguayan man who disappeared four months ago in the remote Andes mountains was found alive on Sunday, after he spent a brutal winter eating rats and raisins to survive, local media reported. Raúl Fernando Gómez Circunegui reportedly got lost in May....
General Miguel Dalmao convicted of murder of professor and activist Nibia Sabalsagaray during Uruguay's military dictatorship Uruguay has convicted a serving general for dictatorship-era human rights violations for the first time. General Miguel Dalmao was sentenced to 28 years in prison for the death of a communist professor. His defence lawyer, Miguel Langon, told AP on Thursday that he had already...
Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay join in condemnation as Bolivia denounces 'kidnap' of Evo Morales Forced to land in Vienna, left waiting on the tarmac for and only allowed to leave after half a day the treatment of Evo Morales has stirred up fury in Latin America, a region that has long bristled at the bullying of the US and double standards of its former colonial masters in Europe. Bolivia...
Anger at US and EU from Bolivia's left-leaning South American allies at meeting to discuss rerouting of Morales' plane Bolivia's president, Evo Morales, has warned he might close the US embassy in his country, as South America's leftist leaders rallied to support him over the rerouting of his presidential plane . Morales again blamed Washington for putting pressure on European countries to refuse to...
Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan 'poet laureate' of the anti-globalisation movement, has written a book of historical and political lessons for each day of the year Most mornings it's the same. At the breakfast table Uruguayan-born author, Eduardo Galeano, 72, and his wife, Helena Villagra, discuss their dreams from the night before. "Mine are always stupid," says Galeano. "Usually I don't...
Proposals likely to become law, leading to innovative policies at odds with the 'war on drugs' philosophy Uruguay's unprecedented plan to create a legal marijuana market has taken its critical first step in the lower house of Congress. All 50 members of the ruling Broad Front coalition approved the proposal just before midnight on Wednesday in a party line vote, keeping a narrow majority of the 96...
s largest economies, which are the biggest markets for illegal narcotics, needed to tackle drug trafficking using tools other than prohibition. "The industrial societies are the ones that have to change," he said. "For a small country, it's possible to experiment with this, but it's also very possible for a developed country because of the resources it has." In December, Uruguay's parliament approved...
s oil wealth – had powered the resurgence of the Latin American left in the 21st century. With Chávez gone, the crowds returned again and again during the following weeks either to support or condemn his successor, Nicolás Maduro, who was always going to find it difficult to fill the huge political space left by his predecessor. As some clashes turned violent, there were a handful of deaths. But despite...
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Uruguay’s President lives in a farmhouse, flies economy and donates most of his salary to social projects. How does your country's leader compare? Nassos Stylianou ...
world's poorest president' label José Mujica plans adoptions to teach children farming If anyone could claim to be leading by example in an age of austerity, it is José Mujica, Uruguay's president, who has forsworn a state palace in favour of a farmhouse, donates the vast bulk of his salary to social projects, flies economy class and drives an old Volkswagen Beetle. But the former guerrilla fighter...
s stance puts the UN and the US to shame I used to think the United Nations was a harmless talking shop, with tax-free jobs for otherwise unemployed bureaucrats. I now realise it is a force for evil. Its response to a truly significant attempt to combat a global menace – Uruguay's new drug regime – has been to declare that it "violates international law" . To see the tide turn on drugs is like trying...
s decision to legalise marijuana is in violation of an international convention on drug control, a Vienna-based body set up to monitor government compliance with such treaties has said. Uruguay became the first country to legalise the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, in a pioneering experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalisation. A government-sponsored...
The pussyfooting is over. Uruguay has become the first country in the world to re-legalise cannabis. You'll have to be a Uruguayan citizen, over 18 and registered, and not grow, sell or buy more than your allotted monthly quota, but – from next spring – grow it and buy it you can. Uruguay joins the list of places with a unique relationship to the cannabis plant. Leo Benedictus ...
s most far-reaching cannabis law has been passed by the Uruguayan parliament, opening the way for the state to regulate the production, distribution, sale and consumption of the planet's favourite illegal drug. The law, effective from next year, will: allow registered users to buy up to 40g of marijuana a month from a chemist's; registered growers to keep up to six plants; and cannabis clubs to have...