Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO -- Uruguay is lauded as the most democratic nation in South America, and its people pride themselves on their involvement in politics in peaceful and respectful ways. That's from Mariel Doyenhart, who arrived in Montevideo, Minn., from her home in Montevideo, Uruguay,...

MONTEVIDEO -- When it comes to fiestas, Federico Estol can show us a thing or two. Estol snapped the photographs, while his friend Antonio di Candia authored the narrative on more than a year's worth of fiestas in their native Uruguay. Their 2009 book "Fiestas del Uruguay'' tells...

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"...

MONTEVIDEO -- A visiting group of students from Uruguay recently had the opportunity to witness everything from the bluster of politics in Washington,...

MONTEVIDEO -- One day Maria Gilda Battagliese was basking in the summer warmth on the beaches of Montevideo, Uruguay, and on the next, she was in a jet airliner on her way to Montevideo, Minnesota. Little did she know that an Arctic air mass had just left Fairbanks, Alaska, with...