Uruguay
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Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in the Southern Cone of southeastern South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its nort
Monument to four Charrúa, the Indigenous people of Uruguay, who survived the Massacre of Salsipuedes
The Portuguese first established Colonia do Sacramento in 1680.
In 1825, The oath of the Thirty-Three Orientals set in motion the process in which Uruguay gained independence from the Empire of Brazil.
In 1825, in the Battle of Sarandí, Uruguayan troops first defeated the Brazilian Empire.
Yamandú Orsi
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Yamandú Ramón Antonio Orsi Martínez is a Uruguayan politician and history teacher who has been the 43rd president of Uruguay since March 2025. A member of the left-wing Movement of Popular Participati
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…rule, he was succeeded by Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, a member of the conservative National Party, as the 42nd President of Uruguay. On 1 March 2025, Yamandu Orsi took office as Uruguay's new president, as the left-wing coalition of the Broad Front returned to power after a five-year interruption. With 176,214…
Orsi in 2025
Orsi giving a speech at a ceremony commemorating the Battle of Las Piedras; 18 May 2023.
Orsi during his presidential inauguration at the Legislative Palace; 1 March 2025.