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Last night I had a home-cooked meal at the house of Uruguayan journalist and single mother Laura Lacurcia – a working meal while producing our video about the animal cruelty in Uruguay. In 2009, Uruguay passed its first laws prohibiting the mistreatment of animals by their owners. Unfortunately, the enforcement has not caught up with…
Shed this illusion that, ‘Uruguay is the new Switzerland.’ Nearly 30 years after the military dictatorship, the country is still a volatile environment. Just this evening, on my way to a restaurant, I passed a burning dumpster in the Plaza del Entrevero. In the few short minutes that I stood there, I saw the dumpster transform…
The official website of the president of Uruguay, José “Pepe” Mujica, lists the president’s occupation as chacarero floriculture – a small-scale farmer of flowers. Dubbed “the poorest president in the world,” Mujica, a former left-wing revolutionary, has proven his devotion to the Uruguayan socialist party ‘s cause through his many feats of austerity, including giving 90 percent of…
One of my last assignments at the Killeen Daily Herald was covering the first day of the trial of Nidal Hasan, the Army major convicted today of the largest shooting on a U.S. military instillation in history. Today, on Fort Hood, a jury of 13 unanimously declared him guilty of 13 counts of murder and…