Uruguay's ex-president Jose Mujica, a hero of the left but ailing at 89, has drawn on his last reserves to campaign far and wide for the man seen as his heir apparent ahead of elections Sunday.

Orsi, 57, a former history teacher and two-time mayor from a working-class background, is widely seen as an heir to iconic ...

Montevideo (Uruguay) (AFP) – Uruguayans go to the polls Sunday, with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose ...

Uruguayans go to the polls Sunday with the leftist alliance of celebrated ex-president Jose Mujica hoping to reclaim the ...

The former president will join the campaign in support of Yamandú Orsi. Luis Lacalle Pou — who cannot run again due to constitutional term limits — is backing Álvaro Delgado ...

Delgado of outgoing president Luis Lacalle Pou's ruling coalition, and Yamandú Orsi, of the left-wing Frente Amplio coalition ...

Uruguay is undergoing political dynamics similar to those at work in the rest of Latin America: governments swing from one ...

By Laurence Blair Reporting from Asunción, Paraguay The small South American nation of Uruguay will hold elections ... among them José Mujica. Support from Mr. Mujica, a folksy, avuncular ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Voters in the small South ... occurred under the tenure of former President José “Pepe” Mujica, an eccentric former guerrilla and present-day chrysanthemum ...

Homicide rates in Uruguay have risen sharply in recent ... He has backing from leftist icon Jose "Pepe" Mujica, a former rebel-turned-president, but also moderate groups who like his business ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- The leading contenders in ... the same folksy appeal as the iconic former President José "Pepe" Mujica. The eccentric former guerrilla and present-day chrysanthemum farmer ...