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Uruguay to make medical marijuana available to prisoners

 

Any inmates who have been prescribed marijuana to improve their physical or mental health will have access to it according to the country's drug tsar

09 Apr 2014

Legalising cannabis: Uruguay's president Jose Mujica asks world for support

 

Interview: President of Uruguay insists drug use will not increase as his country is poised to become the first to legalise and control the marijuana trade

31 Mar 2014

Uruguay President urges US and Europe to change drug policy

 

After legalising the production and sale of cannabis in his own country, Uruguayan President Jose Mucjica calls on rich, "developed countries" to re-evaluate their strategy for dealing with narcotics

14 Feb 2014

Uruguay legalises marijuana trade

 

Backers of the law, some smoking joints, gathered near Congress holding green balloons and Jamaican flags in homage to Bob Marley

11 Dec 2013

Uruguay opposition demands marijuana referendum

 

Last minute opposition to Uruguay's plans to legalise sale and consumption of marijuana

09 Dec 2013

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Uruguayan in Andes fled Chile sex abuse charges

Plumber from Uruguay who survived through the winter after disappearing along Chile's high-altitude border with Argentina was fleeing law.

10 Sep 2013

Man lost in Andes for four months found alive

A 58-year-old Uruguayan man who disappeared four months ago in the remote Andes Mountains was found alive on Sunday.

09 Sep 2013

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Sting accused of helping turn Uruguay into a laboratory for drug reform

He has campaigned to end global hunger, fought to save the rainforest, and proclaimed the merits of lengthy tantric sex sessions.

08 Aug 2013

Uruguay on brink of legalising marijuana

An unprecedented plan to create legal marijuana market has been approved by Uruguay's lower house.

01 Aug 2013

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Three cheers for Uruguay, the gateway nation

Commentary Other countries could well soon follow the lead of Uruguay, which has taken a major step towards legalising the growth, production and possession of marijuana.

01 Aug 2013

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The world's most libertarian countries

As Uruguay, a country which has never criminalised cannabis for personal use, turns to legalising its cultivation and distribution, we look at other trailblazing, libertarian countries.

01 Aug 2013

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Uruguay's president apologises for calling Cristina Kirchner an 'old hag'

Uruguay's President Jose Mujica offered belated apologies to his Argentine counterpart Cristina Kirchner on Thursday for calling her an "old hag".

11 Apr 2013

Uruguay legalises gay marriage

Uruguay has become the second Latin American country to legalise gay marriage.

11 Apr 2013

Falklands 'belong to Uruguay not Argentina'

The Falkland Islands should belong to Uruguay, the authors of a new book on the disputed islands have sensationally claimed.

31 Jan 2013

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Andes rugby team plays match 40 years on

Members of a Uruguayan rugby team have played a match that was postponed four decades ago when their plane crashed in the Andes, stranding them for 72 days and forcing them to eat human flesh.

14 Oct 2012

Uruguay marijuana sales to be controlled by state

Uruguay is planning a radical approach to the legalisation of marijuana.

21 Jun 2012

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Uruguay government in marijuana plan

Uruguay is planning a novel approach to fighting its rising crime: having its government sell marijuana to take drug profits out of the hands of dealers.

21 Jun 2012

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Uruguay nurses charged with murder over 'mercy killings'

Two nurses in Uruguay have been charged with murder and jailed over the mercy killing of 16 people, the judge in charge of the case said.

19 Mar 2012

Haitian protesters demand UN departure

Protesters in Haiti clash with police as they demand the withdrawal of UN troops from the earthquake-damaged country.

15 Sep 2011

Peacekeepers investigated over Haiti sexual assault

Five Uruguayan peacekeepers with the UN mission in Haiti are under investigation for an alleged sexual assault on a local teenager after video footage of the incident was posted on the internet.

05 Sep 2011

Carnival in Uruguay

The Uruguay carnival is the longest in the world, running for 80 days.

04 Feb 2011

'You needn't become cannibals to stay alive,' trapped miners told

Chilean miners trapped deep below ground for a month have heard words of support from former rugby players who survived by cannibalism after an Andean plane crash.

04 Sep 2010

Richard Nixon urged Uruguay government to make death threats

Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to save the life of a kidnapped US agent 40 years ago, according to secret diplomatic cables.

13 Aug 2010

Uruguay president's entire assets: a VW Beetle

Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has declared that his entire wealth is nothing more than a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle.

05 Jun 2010

Kissinger 'cancelled warning against assassinations'

Henry Kissinger cancelled a warning against carrying out international political assassinations just days before a former Chilean ambassador was killed in Washington, according to a newly released State Department cable.

11 Apr 2010

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