Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro has told leaders and diplomats gathered in New York for a UN session that the US trade embargo on Cuba violates international law. Almagro made the remarks on Saturday in an address during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly. “Our country rejects any coercive unilateral or extra-territorial measure... 

Ousted Paraguay President Fernando Lugo South American foreign ministers have suspended Paraguay from the regional trade bloc, Mercosur, over last week’s ouster of former President Fernando Lugo. However, the bloc stopped short of imposing economic sanctions on Paraguay, which is one of the four founding members of the Mercosur bloc, along with Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Paraguay was banned from... 

The Latin American country is planning not only to legalize marijuana, but to actually start selling it. By dose. ­The Uruguayan government has devised a new measure to fight drug trafficking: lawmakers are to send a bill to Congress on Wednesday that would legalize marijuana sales. Only the government would be allowed to sell special cigarettes, report local news outlets. The new indulgence would... 

Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Tabare Aguerre Uruguayan Agriculture Minister Tabare Aguerre says his country is ready to export rice to Iran in exchange for Iranian oil in the face of the US-led unilateral sanctions on Tehran. “If Iran is willing to barter oil for rice we will do it and we will take out currency from (the operation),” Reuters quoted Aguerre as saying on Friday. Uruguay,... 

The sun appears to be exploding as it rises above the Rio de la Plata in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is likely that the light has been distorted by clouds passing in front of the sun. Click on the image to enlarge it. According to NASA, the photo is not fake and the photographer saw this unusual sun rise with his own eyes, indicating that this effect was caused by neither reflections nor distortions... 

Bricks marked with swastikas on a crumbling building in Brazil have helped historians trace an astonishing plan by Adolf Hitler for a Nazi empire in South America. They have also found some of the young men who were kept as slaves by German settlers and local Nazi supporters. They were known as ‘ Nummernmenschen’ – the number people – as the dehumanisation practised in the concentration camps...