Page "Uruguay" Paragraph 53

Since May 2009, homosexuals are allowed to serve openly in the military after the Defence Minister signed a decree stating that military recruitment policy would no longer discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.

In the fiscal year 2010 the United States provided Uruguay with $ 1. 7 million in military assistance, including $ 1 million in Foreign Military Financing and $ 480, 000 in International Military Education and Training.