Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Long-secret diplomatic cables show President Richard Nixon wanted the Uruguayan government to threaten to kill leftist prisoners in an attempt to save the life of a kidnapped U.S.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - Twelve inmates burned to death in an overcrowded prison on Thursday, just as Uruguay's congress is debating a law to put the army in charge of prison security and relieve the pressure on civilian prisons by moving some inmates into military installations.
JOHANNESBURG - Uruguayan soccer officials have declined to pursue a theft case after allegations emerged that one of their own may have been responsible.
KIMBERLEY, South Africa - Uruguay's soccer association says money was taken from a safe in the Cape Town hotel room of one of its officials.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - From the street, it was an unremarkable auto-body shop in a busy middle-class neighborhood.
