MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's black community, long in the shadows of the country's cultural and political mainstream, is enjoying an awakening as its African roots are celebrated in a pulsating ...

January 28 marked the opening of the 2010 Carnival in Uruguay with the traditional inaugural parade. Advertised as the longest Carnival in the world—starting late January and ending early March—the ...

Uruguay boasts that it has the longest Carnival celebration not just in Latin America, but the world. The 40-day celebration is dotted with makeshift stages all around the capital city of Montevideo ...

Montevideo, Feb 2 (EFE).Montevideo, Feb 2 (EFE). — Members of the Don Timoteo troupe, created by soccer star Alvaro “Chino” Recoba, say that comradeship and participating in Uruguay’s Carnival are ...