Featured stories about Uruguay
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Getting to Know the Global Voices Latin America Team
8 September 2010
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Watch The World Cup with Global Voices: Live Chat for Uruguay vs. Ghana
1 July 2010
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Watch The World Cup with Global Voices: Live Chat for Uruguay vs. France
10 June 2010
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Uruguay: Social Media Keeps Fans Updated on La Celeste
10 June 2010
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Uruguay: New Holiday Commemorates Charrúa Massacre
14 April 2010
Latest stories about Uruguay
3 January 2012
Latin America, 2011: A Year Marked by Social Movements
Citizens across the world took to the streets in 2011, and Latin America was no exception. In this post we look at the social movements that marked 2011 in South and Central America and how protests, vigils, marches and occupations were covered and analyzed through citizen media.
27 December 2011
‘Developing Latin America': Open Data Projects

The 'Desarrollando Latin América' (Developing Latin America) competition, a public hackathon for creating technological solutions to education, security and budgetary problems in six countries in the region, took place on the 3rd and 4th of December. Juan Arellano, who acted as a judge in Lima (Peru), summarises the results and the reactions from the participants.
2 February 2011
Latin America: Drawing Parallels with Egypt
As protests in Egypt continue, Latin American bloggers are drawing historical parallels with similar uprisings in the region and some are wondering: “Could it happen here now?”
29 December 2010
Latin America: 2010 in Review
An 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Chile, a police strike in Ecuador and the Nobel Prize in Literature for Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa were some of the news bloggers and citizen media users reported and analyzed this year. Let's take a look at these and other stories the Latin American team covered in 2010.
22 October 2010
Uruguayans Mourn Death of Musician José Carbajal, ‘El Sabalero'
Singer and composer José Carbajal, nicknamed "el Sabalero," died of a heart attack on October 21 at age 66. Carbajal is considered an icon of Uruguayan culture. This year he was working with other artists and the One Laptop per Child project in Uruguay, Plan Ceibal, to perform in concerts for public school children around the country.
22 May 2010
Uruguay: Silent March Remembering Disappeared Detainees
This year marked the 15th silent march that takes place every May 20 in remembrance of those detained and disappeared during the military dictatorship of Uruguay.

























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Excellent point on the Chilean protests -- too many news organizations led with the confrontations, when the key story was...