The Uruguayan Chief of Police Intelligence, Alejandro Otero, told a Brazilian newspaper in 1970 that the OPS, especially the head of the OPS in Uruguay, Dan Mitrione, had instructed the Uruguayan police how to torture suspects, especially with electrical implements.

* 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 band El Cuarteto de Nos wrote the song " Me Amo " ( I Love Myself ) in which the chorus sings " como Narciso soy " ( I am like Narcissus ).

Uruguayan artists involved in canto popular included Los Eduardos, Los Que Iban Cantando, Universo, Carlos Benavides, Carlos Maria Fossatti, Eduardo Darnauchans, Anibal Sampayo, Marcos Velázquez, Alfredo Zitarrosa, José Carbajal ( Uruguayan musician ) (" El Sabalero "), Los Olimareños and Hector Numa Moraes.

*-( a ) n ( countries / continents: Africa → African, Albania → Albanian, Algeria → Algerian, America → American, Andorra → Andorran, Angola → Angolan, Antigua → Antiguan, Armenia → Armenian, Asia → Asian, Australia → Australian, Austria → Austrian, Barbados → Bajan, Bolivia → Bolivian, Bosnia → Bosnian, Brunei → Bruneian, Bulgaria → Bulgarian, Cambodia → Cambodian, Chile → Chilean, Colombia → Colombian, Costa Rica → Costa Rican, Croatia → Croatian ( also " Croat "), Cuba → Cuban, Dalmatia → Dalmatian, El Salvador → Salvadoran, Eritrea → Eritrean, Estonia → Estonian, Ethiopia → Ethiopian, Europe → European, Equestria → Equestrian, Fiji → Fijian, Gambia → Gambian, Georgia → Georgian, Germany → German, Guatemala → Guatemalan, Guinea → Guinean, Haiti → Haitian, Honduras → Honduran, Hungary → Hungarian, India → Indian, Indonesia → Indonesian, Italy → Italian, Jamaica → Jamaican, Kenya → Kenyan, / South Korea → / South Korean, Latvia → Latvian, Liberia → Liberian, Libya → Libyan, Lithuania → Lithuanian, Macedonia → Macedonian, Malawi → Malawian, Malaysia → Malaysian, Mali → Malian, Mauritania → Mauritanian, Mauritius → Mauritian, Mexico → Mexican, Micronesia → Micronesian, Moldova → Moldovan, Mongolia → Mongolian, Morocco → Moroccan, Mozambique → Mozambican, Namibia → Namibian, Nauru → Nauruan, Nicaragua → Nicaraguan, Nigeria → Nigerian, Palau → Palauan, Paraguay → Paraguayan, Puerto Rico → Puerto Rican, Romania → Romanian, Russia → Russian, Saint Lucia → Saint Lucian, Samoa → Samoan, Saudi Arabia → Saudi Arabian, Serbia → Serbian ( also " Serb "), Singapore → Singaporean, Slovakia → Slovakian, Slovenia → Slovenian ( also " Slovene "), South Africa → South African, Sri Lanka → Sri Lankan, Syria → Syrian, Tanzania → Tanzanian, Tonga → Tongan, Tunisia → Tunisian, Tuvalu → Tuvaluan, Uganda → Ugandan, United States of America → American, Uruguay → Uruguayan, Venezuela → Venezuelan, Zambia → Zambian, Zimbabwe → Zimbabwean ; cities / states: Alaska → Alaskan, Alexandria → Alexandrian, Andalusia → Andalusian, Arizona → Arizonan, Atlanta → Atlantan, Baltimore → Baltimorean, Bavaria → Bavarian, Bohemia → Bohemian, California → Californian, Catalonia → Catalan, Chicago → Chicagoan, Cincinnati → Cincinnatian, Corsica → Corsican, Crete → Cretan, El Paso → El Pasoan, Galicia → Galician, Hanoi ( Vietnam ) → Hanoian, Hawaii → Hawaiian, Iowa → Iowan, Karelia → Karelian, Kiev → Kievan, Madeira → Madeiran, Miami → Miamian, Minneapolis → Minneapolitan, Minnesota → Minnesotan, Moravia → Moravian, Nebraska → Nebraskan, Nova Scotia → Nova Scotian, Ottawa → Ottawan, Pennsylvania → Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia → Philadelphian, Pomerania → Pomeranian, Regina → Reginan, Riga → Rigan, Rome → Roman, San Antonio → San Antonian, San Diego → San Diegan, San Francisco → San Franciscan, San Jose → San Josean, Sardinia → Sardinian, Silesia → Silesian, Sicily → Sicilian, Sofia → Sofian, Sumatra → Sumatran, Tahiti → Tahitian, Tasmania → Tasmanian, Transylvania → Transylvanian, Tucson → Tucsonan, Tulsa → Tulsan, Utah → Utahn, Victoria → Victorian, Wallachia → Wallachian )

He has received honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Brasília ( 1985 ), Moscow ( 1990 ), Asunción ( 1994 ), Genoa and Bucharest, and, excluding short articles and studies, he has published the books entitled Alcances y aplicaciones de la nueva Constitución uruguaya Scope and Application of the New Uruguayan Constitution ( 1967 ), La nación, el nacionalismo y otros ismos Nation, Nationalism and other '- isms ' ( 1978 ), El temor y la impaciencia Fear and Impatience ( 1991 ), El año 501 Year 501 ( 1992 ), Un mundo sin Marx World without Marx ( 1993 ) y Meditaciones del milenio of the Millennium ( 1994 ).

Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Andes flight disaster, and in South America as Miracle in the Andes ( El Milagro de los Andes ) was a chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a rugby team, their friends, family and associates that crashed in the Andes on 13 October 1972.

That goal was scored by the Uruguayan José Perdomo on a freekick, and it has been known ever since as " El gol del terremoto " (" The earthquake goal ").

A move to El Porvenir for the 1990 season did not prove successful, as a leg injury kept him out most of the season, and he moved to Nacional of Uruguay the next season, where he won the Uruguayan Championship in 1992.

The name " Ariel " was inspired by a series of short writings called El Ariel by Uruguayan writer José Enrique Rodó that inspired generations of young Latin Americans in the first decades of the 20th century.

Álvaro Alexander Recoba Rivero ( born March 17, 1976 in Montevideo ), nicknamed " El Chino ", is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Primera División Uruguaya side Club Nacional de Football.

With the Uruguayan Invasion of Argentina dying down, a new wave of rock musicians arose, including El Kinto, Totem ( banda ), Psiglo, Génesis, Opus Alfa, Eduardo Mateo, Jesus Figueroa and Días de Blues, promoted by radio and television shows like Constelacion and Discodromo Show.

Uruguayan artist Rhod Rothfuss began to experience with " marco irregular " paintings in 1942, late in 1944 publish in Arturo magazine your seminal text " El marco: un problema de la plástica actual " Munich-born painter Rupprecht Geiger exhibited " shaped canvases " in 1948 in Paris, France.

El Peyote Asesino is an Uruguayan hip-hop and hard rock band that was active from 1994 to 1999.

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.

The dictator of nearby Paraguay, Francisco Solano López, took advantage of the Uruguayan situation in late 1864 by attempting to establish his nation as a regional power.

He was also a member of the Uruguayan squad that took part in the World Cup of 1974, in West Germany.

The construction of a controversial pulp paper mill in 2007, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River, caused protests in Argentina over fears that it would pollute the environment and lead to diplomatic tensions between the two countries.

Most recently, Uruguay was selected to chair the FTAA and WTO agricultural committees and an Uruguayan presides over the WTO General Assembly.

Following the Second World War, the British football associations agreed to take part from the 1950 World Cup onwards, where Rimet himself handed over the trophy to a triumphant Uruguayan team when they won the tournament for the second time.

The day that it donned the green and white, Palmeiras as Brazil was victorious 3 – 0 over the Uruguayan blue.

The Afro-Uruguayan rhythm Candombe has played a significant role in Uruguayan culture for over 200 years.

In 1903, CURCC was the first club to score over ten goals in an official match of the Uruguayan championship, after defeating Triunfo 12 – 0 ( this was equalled by Montevideo Wanderers in 1908 ).

After the strike decreed by the Uruguayan Mutualist of Professional Footballers in 1948 due to which the Uruguayan championship was suspended, in 1949 Peñarol got a new crown, with a 4-point lead over Nacional, Óscar Míguez being the league's topscorer.

* November 10-Larry Holmes retains his WBC world Heavyweight title with a seventh round knockout over Uruguayan Alfredo Evangelista, in Las Vegas.

Among the most complex issues that have dominated his administration is an ongoing conflict with Argentina over potential contamination from pulp mills being built on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River.

The story moves to October 13, 1972 as Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over the Andes.

On 13 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying Old Christians Club rugby union team from Montevideo, Uruguay, to play a match in Santiago, Chile.

Uruguayan murga has a counterpart in Cadiz, Spain from which it is derived, the chirigota, but over time the two have diverged into distinct forms.

On September 1903 Uruguay, fully represented by Nacional's team members beat Argentina 3 – 2, winning the first international match ever ( between national teams ) in the history of Uruguayan football ( the first club match ever was won by Albion over Argentine team Retiro 3 – 1 in 1896 in Buenos Aires ).

Mondovino was filmed with a hand held Sony PD-150 digital camcorder over the course of 4 years by Jonathan Nossiter with the assistance of Uruguayan filmmaker Juan Pittaluga and Caribbean photographer Stephanie Pommez for a budget around $ 400, 000.

The new terminal, designed by Uruguayan born architect Rafael Viñoly, has the capacity to handle 3 million passengers a year, including a much larger parking area built for over 1200 vehicles.

Its recent productions include Franz Kafka's play " The Trial ", adapted by the Uruguayan Alberto Mediza ; this work, featuring over 50 actors, was performed continuously for five years in La Plata and attracted 20, 000 spectators.

Since bilateral relations with Argentina are considered a priority, Uruguay denies clearance to Falkland Islands bound British naval vessels and prevents them from calling in at Uruguayan territories and ports for supplies and fuel.

Uruguayan Indians Drawing from Hendrick Ottsen journal, 1603.

* Uruguayan — Falta y Resto: " Brindis por Pierrot " (" Cheers for Pierrot "), from Amor Rioplatense ( 2007 ); Jaime Roos: Brindis por Pierrot ( 1985 ).

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

Candombe, a style of drumming descended from African slaves in the area, is quintessentially Uruguayan ( although it is played to a lesser extent in Argentina ).

This record was then broken by the £ 12 million signing of Uruguayan winger / striker Gastón Ramírez from Bologna just before the transfer deadline, one of a clutch of 8 new signings for the team before the transfer window closed.

* The 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains that killed a number of rugby players from Uruguay.

The zeal to compete in this contest was such that the Uruguayan Football Association issued a directive signed by all first division team bosses on June 15, 1951 suspending its national championship from June 25 to July 27, so that a sufficiently strong Nacional team could represent the 1950 World Cup champs.

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.

Consequently, Martí resigned from the Argentinean, Paraguayan, and Uruguayan consulates.

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.

Scholars such as Vanderbilt University history professor Simon Collier, University of Belgrano agriculture history professor Osvaldo Barsky and Uruguayan history professor Jorge Ruffinelli from Stanford University agree that Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, in 1890, and that he laid a false trail about his birthplace beginning in 1920, when he was almost 30.

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.

Later, during an interview on the same magazine, Jango's widow, Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart, revealed documents from the Uruguayan government which reinforces her complaints that her family was being monitored.

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.

Club Atlético Peñarol (, from Latin pinarolium: pinewood ; English: ) also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and familiarly as Manya, is an Uruguayan sports club based in the Peñarol barrio, Montevideo, best known for its professional football team.

In 1908, the club withdrew from the Uruguayan league in protest at the scheduling of the tournament, returning the following season.

In 1960, Peñarol qualified as a champion of the Uruguayan championship in 1959, to the then newly created Champions Cup of America ( current Copa Libertadores ), competition that brought together the champions from seven countries affiliated to the CONMEBOL ( although the representatives of Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela did not attend the tournament ).

Peñarol fell 0 – 3, with the consolation being obtaining the Uruguayan championship again, which earned the club its first five consecutive years ( 1958 – 1962 ), which would befall again from 1993 – 97.

On April 2 2012, an Uruguayan air company, Air Class Líneas Aéreas, gained permission from the Uruguayan Ministry of Defence to start a commercial flight to the Falkland Islands.