Llamadas parade, Montevideo, Uruguay.

I would like to go to Uruguay.

I like the name Uruguay.

Vázquez needed some cover on the status of Urugayan immigrants in the US, and mainly, increases in quotas for its exports to the American market.

There probably won't exist a more passionate encounter than the one I had with Uruguay's President José Mujica.

Here, Brazil is no different than the United Kingdom, Spain or Uruguay.

This, in part, is because carnival in Uruguay involves a lot more than parades.

Blogs like Uruguay Carnavalero cover the parades and competitions, re post news, and share important announcements and event schedules.

Julio F. posts a photo essay of the Autumn candombe parade in Malvín, a neighborhood in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Uruguay s government, too, has not deviated from the basic tenets of the policies of the conservative government that preceded it.

The newspaper also points out that the possession and use of marijuana for personal use is not penalized in Uruguay.

The announcement that the Uruguayan government would push a bill to decriminalize the controlled sale of marijuana has generated mixed reactions.

This year, Solange González Henott wrote about Uruguay s carnival in El Blog de la Ruta , a travel blog from news site Otramérica.

The proposal was presented as a security measure to prevent the consumption and trafficking of cocaine paste ( pasta base in Spanish), a popular drug among Uruguayan youth.

Moreover, Uruguay s political structures will invariably have a moderating effect on any government that might be elected.

As we reported two years ago, blogs and websites dedicated to carnival allow people from all over the world to see what Uruguayan carnival is all about.

Uruguay, for example, announced a strategy to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

Unfortunately, this opportunity was squandered in the Uruguay Round, as developed countries advanced their own interests at the expense of less developed countries.

The site Carnaval del Uruguay , for example, provides forums and a chat room where users can discuss different aspects of carnival.

Even traditionally leftist parties like Brazil s Partido dos Trabalhadores or Uruguay s Frente Amplio have abandoned old Marxist ideals.

The multilateral trading system has faced challenges before, including during the Uruguay Round in the early 1990 s, and has emerged with renewed vigor.

It is estimated that global trade will increase by as much as 50 billion as a result of the agreement reached during the Uruguay Round.

In the same tests, Mexico was in 37th place, while Uruguay, the highest ranked Latin American country, came in 35th.

Indeed, in the last round of trade negotiations, the Uruguay Round, the world's poorest region, sub Saharan Africa, was actually made worse off.

187. The Uruguay Round is a vivid example of the positive impact that multilateral agreements can have on development, through facilitating, expediting and encouraging international trade and commerce.

Mercosur members, by contrast, remain wary of excessive trade liberalization and, with the exception of Brazil (and to a lesser extent Uruguay), are significantly less competitive.

Economic performance in several Latin American countries was relatively weak in this period, with Uruguay s real GDP per capita actually recording a fall by a fraction of a percent.

In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4 2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and in doing so became the first nation to win the World Cup.

In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4 2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and became the first nation to win a World Cup.

In April 1864 Brazil sent a diplomatic mission to Uruguay, led by José Antônio Saraiva, to demand payment for the damages caused to gaucho farmers in border conflicts with Uruguayan farmers.

In Uruguay, President Tabaré Vázquez went out on a limb simply by hosting Bush, given that his problems with his Chávez friendly neighbor in Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, can only worsen as a result of these dangerous acquaintances.

The previous MTN, the Uruguay Round, took nearly eight years to complete, causing some to quip that GATT stood for the General Agreement to Talk and Talk.

The Uruguay Round of the World Trade Organization was widely hailed as a great achievement, because it brought subsidies and many other types of industrial policies practiced by developing nations under strict international discipline.

The General Agreement on tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the recently completed Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, illustrate the impact that multilateral cooperation can have in facilitating commerce and promoting development.

Unfortunately, the trade negotiators who framed the intellectual property agreement of the Uruguay trade round of the early 1990 s (TRIP s) were either unaware of all of this, or more likely, uninterested.

To begin with, those parties, leaders, and movements that have truly socialist and progressive roots such as Lagos and his Socialist Party in Chile, Lula and the Workers Party in Brazil, and Vázquez in Uruguay are following pragmatic, sensible and realistic paths.

Mexico is not alone in adopting a national strategy for the transition to a low carbon, resource efficient green economy. Uruguay, for example, announced a strategy to generate half its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

Given all this, it might seem that Uruguay s carefully constructed social democratic alternative could unravel.

Uruguay s government, too, has not deviated from the basic tenets of the policies of the conservative government that preceded it. It maintains the country s improved relations with the IMF, and it has even approved an agreement with the US to guarantee investments.

Economists estimate that global free trade, enabled by many successful rounds of multilateral talks (most recently the Uruguay Round, culminating in the establishment of the World Trade Organization), has boosted worldwide income substantially.

Similarly, while Alan García won in Peru, he does not come from a hard left party that has finally seen the light (like Lula da Silva in Brazil, Michelle Bachelet in Chile, and Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay).

Consider Uruguay, whose rating was downgraded to selective default for two weeks while the exchange was occurring, and then was upgraded (though not to investment grade) when, thanks to the exchange s success, its public debt became more sustainable.

In Uruguay, what the authorities presented as a voluntary transaction produced no nominal haircuts and only minor debt relief in Argentina, a four year debt moratorium was essential to achieving nominal haircuts above 50 .

At the World Trade Organization s meeting Cancun in 2003, the developing countries stood together and blocked efforts to forge a trade agreement that was almost as unfair as the previous Uruguay round, under which the poorest countries actually became worse off.

It is fighting words in Buenos Aires, for instance, to suggest that Argentine soccer is not the best in the world, though it has managed to win the World Cup only twice, behind Brazil (five), Italy (four), and Germany (three) and matched by its tiny neighbor, Uruguay.