In December 2010, a Uruguayan, Major General Gloodtdofsky, was appointed Chief Military Observer and head of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan.

Police officer Pedro Seelig, the head of the DOPS at the time of the kidnapping, was identified by the Uruguayan couple as the man in charge of the operation in Porto Alegre.

Other mounted bands like the Mounted Fanfare Band Company of the 1st Mechanized Cavalry Regiment " Glorious Junin Hussars ( Peru's Liberators )" of the Peruvian Army, the Mounted Band and Bugles of the 1st Cavalry Regiment " Grenadiers " and the Band and Bugles of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment " Hussars " of the Chilean Army, the Mounted Band of the 1st Cavalry Regiment " José Gervasio Artigas's Own Blandengues Horse Guards " of the Uruguayan Army and the Mounted Band of the Ecuadorian National Police use both brass, woodwinds and percussion, and also utilize bugles.

Tom Golden, a career army intelligence operative detailed to the CIA and assigned to the U. S. Embassy in Montevideo, was a personal friend of Mitrione who worked closely with Uruguayan officials to try to secure the release of Mitrione and prevent his execution .. After Mitrione's death Golden disputed the torture-training allegations in closed-door testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

* Alejandro Stock ( b. 1965 ), Uruguayan artist

Their strong momentum lead them to achieve another two domestic titles, both of these achievements were under the watchful eyes of the technician Juan Carlos Masnik and were helped by the heroic players such as Horacio Lugo, Marcelo Bauza and Uruguayan Alejandro Curbelo and Adrián de la Cruz.

José Antonio Mora Otero ( 22 November 1897 – 26 January 1975 ) was a Uruguayan diplomat.

* Uruguayan War ( 1864 – 1865 ): Brazilian intervention in Uruguay.

It was ratified by the Uruguayan government on 13 October 1914, by the Paraguayan government on 27 September 1917 and by the Brazilian government on 18 January 1921.

The result was the Paraguayan War, a five-year conflict in which Uruguayan, Brazilian and Argentinian armies fought Paraguay, and which Flores finally won, but only at the price of the loss of 95 % of his own troops.

* February 20, 1827 – Battle of Ituzaingo ( Passo do Rosário ): A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets Argentine – Uruguayan troops in combat.

* February 20 – Battle of Ituzaingo ( Passo do Rosário ): A force of the Brazilian Imperial Army meets Argentine – Uruguayan troops in combat.

Gualeguaychú in the east of Entre Ríos province is the most important Carnival city and has one of the largest parades, with a similar afro-American musical background to Brazilian or Uruguayan Carnival.

The admission to a Master program ( Castilian: Maestría ; Portuguese: Mestrado ) in a Brazilian, Argentine or Uruguayan University requires the full completion of an undergraduate degree, as well Licentiate's degree as Professorate degree of four to five years long from any recognized university.

Fattoruso has been a longtime part of both the Uruguayan and Latin American music scene, including as a member of rock band Los Shakers, and swing band The Hot Blowers, as well as Brazilian Milton Nascimento and the Latin jazz and Acid Jazz group Opa.

On that occasion, under consent of the Brazilian military regime, high officers of the Uruguayan army secretly crossed the frontier, heading to Porto Alegre, capital of the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

The illegal operation failed when two Brazilian journalists – the reporter Luiz Cláudio Cunha and the photographer Joao Baptista Scalco, from Veja Magazine, were warned by an anonymous phone call about the disappearance of the Uruguayan couple.

They were João Augusto da Rosa and Orandir Portassi Lucas ( a former football player of Brazilian teams known as Didi Pedalada ), both identified later as participants in the kidnapping operation by the reporters and the Uruguayan couple — which surely confirmed the involvement of the Brazilian Government in the Condor Operation.

Lilian and Universindo's later testimony also proved that four officers of the secret Uruguayan Counter-information Division – two majors and two captains – took part in the operation under consent of the Brazilian authorities.

Hugo Cores, a former Uruguayan political prisoner who was living in São Paulo at the time of the kidnapping and was the author of the anonymous phone call to Cunha, spoke the following to the Brazilian press in 1993: " All the Uruguayans kidnapped abroad, around 180 people, are missing to this day.

In a document requested by the Movement for Justice and Human Rights and the President João Goulart Institute, the Uruguayan Interior Ministry said that " serious and responsible Brazilian sources " talked about an " alleged plot against the former Brazilian president.

Milonga can refer to an Argentine, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian form of music which preceded the tango and the dance form which accompanies it, or to the term for places or events where the tango or Milonga are danced ( see Milonga ( place )).

By then Brazil had already overthrown the Uruguayan government of Aguirre and installed Flores in his stead, rendering Uruguay little more than a Brazilian puppet state.

It has since received some input from Uruguayan Spanish language and also Brazilian Portuguese language used on television and literature.

Alfonsín had already been negotiating an ambitious agreement to dismantle tariffs in bilateral trade with the Brazilian José Sarney ; now, Sanguinetti was included in an open field project that adopted a three-country shape and that gained impulse from the summit of the three presidents which the Uruguayan had organized in Colonia on 6 February 1988.

This boom panorama was drastically affected by the Brazilian crisis of 1998-1999, which reduced the products it bought from Uruguay ; Brazil was the destination of more than a third of total Uruguayan exports.

Portable " churrasqueiras " are similar to those used to prepare the Argentine, Chilean, Paraguayan and Uruguayan asado, with a grill support, but many Brazilian " churrasqueiras " do not have grills, only the skewers above the embers.

He is documented by photograph to have played the instruments of Spanish makers Jose Ramirez I, Enrique Garcia, Fransisco Simplicio, Enrique Sanfeliu, Domingo Esteso and Ricardo Sanchis Nacher, Brazilian maker DiGiorgio, and in print by Uruguayan maker Rodolfo Camacho.

* The Santiago, Chile, newspaper El Mercurio broke the story that the 16 survivors of the Uruguayan plane crash in the Andes mountains had turned to cannibalism to avoid starvation.

Uruguayan newspaper El País took over from 1986 onwards.

In 1970, the Morumbi stadium was finally completed and the club purchased Gérson from Botafogo, Uruguayan midfielder Pedro Rocha from Peñarol and striker Toninho Guerreiro from Santos.

The FIFA team was composed mainly of Argentine and Uruguayan players, while Brazil fielded Pelé, Carlos Alberto, and several other members of the 1970 World Cup winning squad.

The US OPS trained Uruguayan police and intelligence in policing and interrogration techniques.

Along with police forces trained by the US Office of Public Safety ( OPS ), the Uruguayan military unleashed a bloody campaign of mass arrests and selected disappearances, dispersing those guerrillas who were not killed or arrested.

Lyrically, the album dealt with criticism of British and European culture, violence, morbidity ( especially in reference to the song " Passenger On The Menu ", which describes in graphic detail the experiences of the passengers on the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 ), atheism, nihilism and humour.

In 1865, the Triple Alliance was formed by the emperor of Brazil, the president of Argentina, and the Colorado general Venancio Flores, the Uruguayan head of government whom they both had helped to gain power.

Garibaldi was also made head of the Uruguayan navy.

The head snaps are totally foreign to Argentine and Uruguayan tango, and were introduced in 1934 under the influence of a similar movement in the legs and feet of the tango from the Rio de la Plata, and the theatrical movements of the pasodoble.

It is the most sparsely populated of all the Uruguayan departments with a population density of under 5 people per km² and 350, 000 head of cattle.

In 1971, Universitario won its fourteenth First División title and qualified for the 1972 edition of the Copa Libertadores under the Uruguayan head coach Roberto Scarone along with Alianza Lima who placed second that season.

* Joaquín Suárez ( 1781 – 1868 ), Uruguayan politician, head of state of Uruguay

The Uruguayan government, with U. S. backing, refused, and Mitrione was later found dead in a car, shot twice in the head and with no other visible signs of maltreatment ( beyond the fact that, during the kidnapping, Mitrione had been shot in one shoulder — a wound for which he had evidently been treated while in captivity ).