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Residencia Presidencial de Suárez y Reyes, or simply Residencia de Suárez (Spanish for Suárez Residence), is the official residence of the president of Uruguay, so-called because it is located at the intersection of Suarez and Reyes streets, in Prado, Montevideo. To its back lies the Montevideo Botanic Garden.
In the 1940s and 1950s, European immigration to Uruguay remained significant, driven by the economic and social prosperity the country experienced during the New Batllism era—a period in which Uruguay was known as the 'Switzerland of the Americas' due to its political stability, high level of development, high quality of life, social welfare ...
Old Cédula de Identidad in 1999. Before 2015, it was known as the "Cédula de identidad" It was a laminated card measuring approximately 9 cm in width by 5 cm in height, predominantly in light green color, displaying in its center the flag of the Thirty-Three Orientals with the inscription "Libertad o muerte" On the reverse side, it featured the owner's photo, the number assigned by the D.N.I ...
Emigration from Uruguay began tentatively about a century ago, but experienced a significant increase since the 1960s. Successive economic crises (notably in 1982 and 2002), plus the small size of the country's economy and population, were decisive factors that pushed thousands of Uruguayans out of their country of birth; economic migrants traveled primarily to other Spanish-speaking countries ...
A referendum on the Urgent Consideration Law was held in Uruguay to ask the electorate if 135 articles of Law 19,889 (known as the "Urgent Consideration Law", "Urgency Law" or simply "LUC") – approved by the General Assembly in 2020 and considered as the main legislative initiative of the coalition government of President Luis Lacalle Pou — should be repealed.
The Chamber of Representatives (Spanish: Cámara de Representantes) [2] is the lower house of the General Assembly of Uruguay (Asamblea General de Uruguay).The Chamber has 99 members, elected for a five-year term by proportional representation with at least two members per department.
The original project was started in 1965 as a future Palace of Justice, but the 1973 coup d'état interrupted it. [1] By the time the military government ended in 1985, the building was too small for the Uruguayan justice system, so the project remained halted for decades until in March 2006, President Tabaré Vázquez decided to finish the building and use it as an extension of the Estévez ...
GAO, GBO (Omnibus Interdepartmental; black characters and border with yellow background; only with the legend "Uruguay". The second letter indicates the town of Artigas) GAR, GBR (Remises ; characters and black border with yellow background; with the legend "Remise - Uruguay". It is used only in Artigas and the second letter indicates the locality)