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Uruguay

August 2024

  • Large industrial buildings and car parks on a green plain

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay

    Protesters say recently approved tax-free datacentre will ‘provide nothing except toxic waste and greenhouse gases’

July 2024

  • Portrait of My Father .

    Portrait of My Father review – mysterious death of father is start-point of riveting film

    Juan Ignacio Fernández Hoppe’s documentary tries to pin down a true record of the father he lost aged eight, but the struggle to find it is what compels attention

June 2024

  • A man holds a picture of Amelia Sanjurjo

    Uruguayan woman given proper burial 47 years after abduction by dictatorship

  • People march against racism in downtown Montevideo on 19 December 2012, after a 27-year-old African-Uruguayan woman was attacked outside of a nightclub.

    Racist slur used in Uruguay football match ignites national debate

May 2024

  • Piles of red paper bags with black hexagons on them.

    Our unequal earth
    Latin America labels ultra-processed foods. Will the US follow?

    In 2010, Mexico led the way, followed by Ecuador, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Argentina and Colombia
  • Four grocery-store shelves filled with brightly colored bags of Doritos, mostly in shades of orange.

    Our unequal earth
    The US food industry has long buried the truth about their products. Is that coming to an end?

    The FDA is developing front-of-package labels that corporations may have to start printing as early as 2027
  • People watch the aurora australis, also known as the southern lights, in Rolleston on the outskirts of Christchurch on Saturday

    Southern lights ignite the sky in geomagnetic glory – in pictures

    Aurora australis has proven to be the weekend’s must-see event, offering the most ‘extreme’ celestial display in two decades

March 2024

  • Older Latina woman with dyed brown-red hair, patterned, dress, red lipstick, speaks into a microphone surrounded by people.

    Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate

  • Illustration: Sr.Garcia/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America – podcast

February 2024

  • Society of the Snow Netflix press publicity still

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Society of the Snow: Andes plane crash film reveals a human tragedy – and points to an environmental one

    Reflecting on the story of the Uruguayan rugby players whose plane crashed in in 1972 emphasises the stark changes to the mountain range as it is seen today

December 2023

  • The Pintado wind farm in Florida, Uruguay.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Uruguay’s green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done

    Stung by 2008’s oil price spike, Uruguay now produces up to 98% of its electricity from renewables. Can other countries follow suit?
  • No help arrives … Society of the Snow

    Society of the Snow review – cannibalism in the ice in incredible real-life survival tale

    JA Bayona’s powerful retelling of the 1972 rugby team’s flight that crashed in the Andes and the agonising decisions passengers took in order to stay alive
  • Nando Parrado and Carlos Páez Rodríguez greeted by Páez’s father.

    The G2 interview
    My plane crashed in the Andes. Only the unthinkable kept me and the other starving survivors alive

    In 1972, Nando Parrado was travelling with family and friends when his plane went down in the mountains. What followed was months of horror, ingenuity – and incredible sacrifice

November 2023

  • Spotify will cease trading in Uruguay in February 2024.

    Spotify to phase out service in Uruguay following new copyright bill requiring ‘fair and equitable remuneration’

    The streaming platform claimed that it already pays nearly 70% of every dollar to labels and publishers and had contributed to a 20% growth in Uruguay’s music industry in 2022

July 2023

  • Low water level in the Santa Lucía River as it flows past Florida, Uruguay, 4 July 2023.

    The Guardian view on a water crisis: Uruguay points to a wider issue – and to solutions

  • Three consecutive years of drought have almost emptied Montevideo's only reservoir of fresh water

    Reservoir supplying drinking water to Uruguay almost depleted – video

  • A dried-up reservoir in Uruguay in March

    Drought leaves millions in Uruguay without tap water fit for drinking

  • URUGUAY-DROUGHT-WATER-PROTEST<br>People take part in a protest called by Uruguay's Central Union (PIT-CNT) in "defense of water" against the handling of the national authorities with respect to the management of the shortage of drinking water reserves in Montevideo on May 31, 2023. The state-owned company Obras Sanitarias del Estado (OSE) decided to increase for the second time the levels of salinity in the water at the beginning of May to make the reserves last even longer due to the persistent drought that is affecting Uruguay. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP) (Photo by EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP via Getty Images)

    ‘It’s pillage’: thirsty Uruguayans decry Google’s plan to exploit water supply

March 2023

  • Rafael Viñoly poses for a picture at Carrasco international airport in Ciudad de la Costa, Uruguay, for which he designed a new terminal

    Architect Rafael Viñoly, designer of Walkie Talkie building, dies aged 78

    Uruguayan-born Viñoly’s sometimes controversial work included more than 600 structures around world

May 2022

  • A soil cracked by drought next to an irrigated field in Saint-Gilles, southern France.

    Weather tracker
    France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America

    Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil
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