Oriental Republic of Uruguay

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Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It borders with Argentina to the west and Brazil to the north with a coast on the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast.

History

Military dictatorship

In the 1960s, Marxist urban guerrillas called the Tupamaros were operating in Uruguay. In 1969 CIA agent Dan Mitrione instituted torture as a routine practice against the guerrillas. In July 1970, he was captured by the Tupamaros, who demanded the release of 150 prisoners in order to free him. When the Uruguayan government refused, he was killed.^[1]

Return to bourgeois democracy

From 2010 to 2015 former Tupamoros member José Mujica served as President, introducing social reforms such as the legalization of abortion and same-sex marriage.^[2]

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