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Three million tourists

Almost 3.000.000 tourists have come to Uruguay during this year. Statistically, the tourist number 3.000.000 will arrive today. In many points of the country, including the port in Colonia, local authorities and representants of the Tourism Ministry will symbolically recieve them.


Source: City Council's press release.
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Mizangas - Afro-descendant young women

Mizangas is a group of young Afro-descendant women who work against any form of discrimination and promote Human Rights.


They organize talks and activities all over Uruguay, and sometimes abroad, to raise awareness about the urgent need to stop discrimination and eliminate stereotypes.


In the following video, Noelia Ojeda tells us more about why and how they do this.

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Third Seminar of Youth Correspondents

The third encounter for the Youth Correspondents of the US Embassy in Uruguay was held during the 5th and 6th of December in Montevideo. This time the group of young journalists had the unique opportunity to meet Hannah Rosenthal (Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-semitism) and William Owen (Counselor for Political, Economic and Commercial Affairs); as well as very important Uruguayan politicians, such as Julio María Sanguinetti (former president), Luis Alberto Lacalle (former president and current senator) and Vice President Danilo Astori.

Courtesy of United States Embassy in Montevideo

Celebrate Human Rights... and defend them!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created exactly 63 years ago, and that's why we are celebrating, like each 10th of December, the International Human Rights Day.

This fact by itself, doesn’t say much, unless we are honestly committed to leave aside all our prejudices, and to work as much as we can to ensure that any human being, however different or distant they may be from ourselves, is able to enjoy those rights.

The  following video is an incredibly inspiring presentation by Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, given during the most recent Seminar of Youth Correspondents.