The action continues in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers as Paraguay and Uruguay lock horns at the Estadio Defensores del Chaco on Thursday, June 5. Marcelo Bielsa’s men head into the midweek ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi have been partners on the pitch for several years. Now they're teaming up off it as businessmen. Suárez announced on Tuesday he has founded a ...

But on this crisp election Sunday in a working-class neighbourhood of Montevideo, Uruguay’s most famous and modest man was conspicuously absent. There was a presence to that void, a solemn ...

By the mid-1970s they were both behind bars, in separate prisons, where they would remain until the end of Uruguay's 1973-1985 military dictatorship. Upon their release, the relationship resumed.

Tributes have poured in from across Latin America following the death of Uruguay’s former president Jose “Pepe” Mujica, an ex-guerilla fighter revered by the left for his humility and ...

Tributes flooded in from Latin America on Tuesday after Uruguay's ex-president Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a leftist icon known for his humility and progressive policies, died at 89. The former guerrilla ...

Tributes poured in from across Latin America on Tuesday following the death of Uruguay’s former president Jose “Pepe” Mujica, an ex-guerrilla fighter revered by the left for his humility and ...

At the height of his political career as president of Uruguay, Mujica's monthly salary was $12,500 (€7,200) — but he only drew one-tenth of it. The rest he gave away. $1,250 was "more than ...

Uruguay's former president Jose "Pepe" Mujica, an ex-guerrilla fighter and hero of the Latin American left, has died at the age of 89, the government said Tuesday. The humble leader -- who once ...

Uruguay’s former President José Mujica, a leftist icon known for his progressive social reforms, died on Tuesday at the age of 89. “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of ...

He earned admiration at home and cult status abroad for legalizing marijuana and same-sex marriage, enacting the region's first sweeping abortion rights law and establishing Uruguay as a leader in ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle ...