Uruguayan and Argentine artists known for their milonga compositions and interpretations include Roberto Firpo, Angel D ' Agostino, Pedro Laurenz, Villoldo, Francisco Canaro, Rodolfo Biagi, Juan d ' Arienzo, Edgardo Donato, Gabino Ezeiza, Aníbal Troilo, Lucio Demare, Domingo Federico, Angel Vargas, Mariano Mores, Alfredo Zitarrosa, Francisco Lomuto, Ástor Piazzolla and Carlos Di Sarli.

Well-known Uruguayan painters include realists such as Juan Manuel Blanes, constructivists such as Joaquín Torres García, nativists like Carlos María Herrera, post-impressionists such as Pedro Figari and Felipe Seade, abstract artists such as Carlos Páez Vilaró, and numerous others.

Category: Uruguayan artists

Category: Uruguayan artists

* Music of Uruguay-Ayuí / Tacuabé Official Website :-Official Site of Ayuí / Tacuabé, the Uruguayan independent record label in which Daniel Viglietti is one of the founders and featured artists.

This was due to the Law of Impunity which guaranteed amnesty to all Uruguayan people involved in political repression.

Finally on December 13, the football section was renamed CURCC Peñarol, and later on March 1914 to Club Atlético Peñarol, a change approved by the Uruguayan football association and all the clubs involved in the championship, including Nacional.

A similar set of events to those that doomed Star Dust also caused the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972 ( the crash made famous in the film Alive ), though there were survivors from that crash because it involved a glancing blow to a mountainside rather than a head-on collision.

Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972.

Daniel Viglietti was by far the most important Uruguayan exponent of canto popular ; his song " A Desalambrar " became an international popular classic.

Drawing upon Switzerland and its use of the initiative, the Uruguayan Constitution also allows citizens to repeal laws or to change the constitution by popular initiative which culminates into a nation-wide referendum.

Uruguayan tango and milonga are both popular styles, and folk music from along the River Plate is indistinguishable from its Argentine counterpart.

Uruguay rock and cancion popular ( Uruguayan versions of rock and pop music ) are popular local forms.

Dr. Jorge Batlle became Uruguayan president on March 1, 2000, after having been elected the previous year by popular vote.

Palissy figures as one of nineteen exemplary heroes in a series written by Uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga and first published in 1927 in the popular Argentine weekly Caras y Caretas.

His leadership of this group has taken on somewhat mythic proportions in popular Uruguayan historiography.

The musical style or rhythmic structures of the murga is sometimes incorporated into Uruguayan popular music.

Two songs appear in the film: " La Paloma ", a Spanish – Cuban – Mexican tune sung by popular Chilean singer Rosita Serrano ; and " La Cumparsita ", a classic Uruguayan tango tune performed by German bandleader Adalbert Lutter and his orchestra.

The Beatles were wildly popular across the world, and many Uruguayan youths began to form their own rock bands.

** Tango: This Argentinian and Uruguayan music became popular in Antioquia during the first part of the twentieth century, maybe due to Argentinian migrations to Medellín.

He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Canción or " New Song " of the 1960s and early 1970s.

In the late 1950s, partly because of a decrease in demand in the world market for agricultural products, Uruguay began having economic problems, which included inflation, mass unemployment, and a steep drop in the standard of living for Uruguayan workers.

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.

Speakers included Mary Robinson ( former President of Ireland and former High Commissioner for Human Rights ), Ana Cabral ( Minister of human rights in the Brazilian government ), Frederico Villegas ( Head of Human Rights for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina ) and Dianela Pi ( First secretary of the Uruguayan mission to the UN ), and leading lights from UNAIDS and other NGOs.

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.

A wave of bands appeared in Montevideo, including Los Shakers, Los Mockers, Los Iracundos and Los Malditos, who became major figures in the so-called Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina.

Sandro y los del fuego in ' 63 with their Argentine rockabilly igniting inspiration ; the Uruguayan Invasion of 1965 that proved the commercial viability of non-US or UK bands ; the massive hit of " La Balsa " by Los Gatos in ' 67 showing Spanish language rock could be appealing to the masses ; the Acusticazo of ' 72.

In the mid-1960s, as the British Invasion was peaking in the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, a group of Uruguayan bands like Los Shakers, Los Iracundos, Kano y Los Bulldogs, Los Mockers and Los Malditos broke into the mainstream in Uruguay's larger neighbor, Argentina.

After 1985, with the restoration of democracy, Uruguayan rock was reborn with bands like Los Estómagos, Traidores, Neoh-23, Zero, and La Chancha Francisca.

* 1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer

* Carlos Anaya, Uruguayan politician ( d. 1862 )

* July 1 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer ( died 1994 )

* May 30 – Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer

The Uruguayan argument is that Gardel was born in 1887 the son of influential Uruguayan landowner Carlos Escayola and Escayola's sister-in-law, 13-year-old Maria Lelia Oliva.

Chilean General Carlos Prats, Uruguayan former MPs Zelmar Michelini, Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz and the ex-president of Bolivia, Juan José Torres, were assassinated in the Argentine capital.

Mural of Carlos Gardel and Buenos Aires painted by Uruguayan Carlos Páez Vilaró

* Carlos Soca ( born 1969 ), Uruguayan football ( soccer ) player

He was a member of the ' Generation of 45 ', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement: Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.

* Carlos Ott, Uruguayan architect

756 entries were received, and, in November 1983, the competition was won by, at the time, an unknown architect, Carlos Ott, a Uruguayan who lives in Canada.

Modern Uruguayan writers include Juan Carlos Onetti ( author of No Man's Land and The Shipyard ), novelist Mario Benedetti, social critic Eduardo Galeano, and Mario Jesús Moraes.

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.