URUGUAY

News

Fugitive ‘King of the South’ Comes out of Hiding for TV Interview

11.27.23

By Nathaniel Janowitz
News

Close Associate of Fugitive ‘King of the South’ Drug Lord Arrested in Uruguay

10.27.23

By Nathaniel Janowitz
News

A Senator Paid a Teacher to Find Him Teenage Boys to Sexually Abuse, Charges Allege

10.16.23

By Nathaniel Janowitz
Life

Where’s the Next Amsterdam?

04.20.23

By Kyle MacNeill
News

Cocaine Bricks in a Huge $7M Bust Were Stamped With the YouTube Logo

11.10.22

By Nathaniel Janowitz
News

Russian Spies Allegedly Got Fake Passports From Uruguay President’s Bodyguards

10.20.22

By Nathaniel Janowitz
News

Cryogenically Frozen Flies Are Being Revived in Uruguay to Fight Screwworm Plague

07.08.22

By Nathaniel Janowitz
What It’s Like Inside an ‘Open’ Prison

01.08.19

By Rodrigo Márquez Tizano
Identity

Uruguay Has Massively Expanded Trans Rights

10.25.18

By Sirin Kale
News

Here’s what Uruguay has learned when it comes to legalizing weed

03.22.18

By Chris Arsenault
News

Weed is now legal in an entire country for the first time

07.19.17

By Gabriel Connelly
Identity

What I Learned About Hookup Cultures from Traveling Abroad

07.19.17

By Maria Yagoda

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