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    June 8, 2016
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    Local residents featured prominently in humorous commercial shot in Montevideo
    MONTEVIDEO — More than 60 people of all ages took part as extras and volunteers in the shooting of a Uruguayan TV commercial in May in Montevideo....
    newsJune 8, 2016 - 11:12am
    May 20, 2016
    Extras sought for Uruguayan commercial to be filmed Saturday in Montevideo
    MONTEVIDEO - Bombay Films of Montevideo, Uruguay, is seeking at least 40 Montevideo, Minn., area residents who can show up to pack the Thunderhawk...
    newsMay 20, 2016 - 10:19am
    May 11, 2016
    Alexa Frazier of Montevideo feigns displeasure after sipping mate, the national drink of Uruguay, while auditioning Tuesday for a television commercial being produced by Bombay Films of Uruguay in Montevideo. (Tom Cherveny | Tribune)
    Locals in Montevideo make faces at Uruguayan visitors for chance to be on TV there
    MONTEVIDEO — Alexa Frazier of Montevideo took a sip on her straw and made a face as if she’d just swallowed sour milk. “Perfect,’’...
    newsMay 11, 2016 - 12:00am
    May 9, 2016
    Uruguayan film crew looking for locals for TV commercial to be filmed in Montevideo
    MONTEVIDEO -- An Uruguayan film crew is seeking local men and women of all ages to casting call from 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday to audition for a TV commercial that will be filmed in Montevideo. MNBombay Films of Montevideo, Uruguay, has issued a casting call to to western Minnesota residents...
    newsMay 9, 2016 - 9:21am
    June 19, 2015
    Montevideo Mayor Debra Lee Fader, right, speaks to those gathered for the dedication Thursday of the community’s new mural at Artigas Plaza. She said Uruguayan media has already carried a story about the public arts project. (Tom Cherveny | Tribune)
    Montevideo’s public art reaches across the world
    MONTEVIDEO — If the purpose of public art is to place it for the world to see, Montevideo succeeded in a very big way. Before the community...
    newsJune 19, 2015 - 12:26am
    December 11, 2013
    Uruguay becomes first country to legalize marijuana trade
    MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay became the first country to legalize the growing, sale and smoking of marijuana on Tuesday, a pioneering social experiment that will be closely watched by other nations debating drug liberalization.
    news/worldDecember 11, 2013 - 9:00am
    October 13, 2012
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    Visitor from South America's most democratic nation arrives as election campaigns heats up
    MONTEVIDEO -- Uruguay is lauded as the most democratic nation in South America, and its people pride themselves on their involvement in politics...
    news/educationOctober 13, 2012 - 12:00am
    July 6, 2010
    Federico Estol has made Montevideo and its annual Fiesta Day celebration the focus of his work. Estol returned to his native Ur-uguay Thursday to create a book of photographs he took at Fiesta Day. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny
    Small-town celebration about to get one mighty audience
    MONTEVIDEO -- When it comes to fiestas, Federico Estol can show us a thing or two. Estol snapped the photographs, while his friend Antonio di...
    newsJuly 6, 2010 - 12:00am
    April 19, 2010
    Sergio Castro, 18, tries out his kayaking skills on the Chippewa River. He grew up on a dairy farm in Uruguay. Submitted photo
    Uruguayans find familiar scenes in a foreign land
    MONTEVIDEO -- They range in age from 16 to 18, and said goodbye to families living in places as disparate as the grasslands of the famed "Guachos"...
    newsApril 19, 2010 - 12:00am
    September 28, 2009
    The trip to Montevideo, Uruguay, was an opportunity for Mary and Patrick Moore to renew their friendship with Maria Gildea Battagliese. The Moores hosted the Uruguayan educator when she came to the U.S. in January as part of the exchange supported by the Partners of the Americas and the U.S. Department of State. From left are: Battagliese; Patrick Moore; Uruguay Tabaré González-Sierra, director of the Protected Fauna Research Center in Uruguay; and Mary Moore. (Submitted photo)
    Each visit grows connections of Montevideo to Montevideo
    MONTEVIDEO -- A visiting group of students from Uruguay recently had the opportunity to witness everything from the bluster of politics in Washington,...
    newsSeptember 28, 2009 - 12:00am
    February 6, 2009
    It's the similarities between the people of her home country, Uruguay, and the United States that caught the attention of Maria Gilda Battagliese during her visit here. She is pictured Wednesday at the statue of South American liberator Jose Artigas. It has been a part of Montevideo's downtown since 1949, a gift from Uruguayan children. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny
    Educator from Uruguay finds warmth in the plains of cold land, its folks
    MONTEVIDEO -- One day Maria Gilda Battagliese was basking in the summer warmth on the beaches of Montevideo, Uruguay, and on the next, she was...
    newsFebruary 6, 2009 - 12:00am
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