Yearbook 1999
Uruguay. In the second round of the presidential election on November 28, the Colorado Party candidate Jorge Batlle turned his downside from the first round to victory by 52%. Visit Countryaah official website to get information about the capital city of Uruguay. Tabaré Vázquez from the left-wing coalition Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio (EP-FA), who led all opinion polls during the year and who got 7% more votes than Batlle in the first round of the presidential election, got 45%. The 73-year-old Batlle has a solid political family tradition to fall back on; his grandfather’s brother José Batlle y Ordóñez was president in 1903–07 and 1911–15, and the architect of Uruguay’s, at the time, very modern welfare system that gave the country its reputation as a “South America’s Switzerland”. On the other hand, the EP-FA won 52% of the votes in the department of Montevideo, where almost half of Uruguay’s population lives, and became the largest party group in the Congress, though without its own majority.
- Also see Abbreviationfinder.org to see the acronym of URU which stands for Uruguay and other definitions of this 3-letter abbreviation.
| Land area | 176,215 km² |
| Total population | 3,387,605 |
| Residents per km² | 19.2 |
| Capital | Montevideo |
| Official language | Spanish |
| Income per capita | $ 22,400 |
| Currency | Uruguayan peso |
| ISO 3166 code | UY |
| Internet TLD | .uy |
| License plate | ROU |
| Telephone code | +598 |
| Time zone UTC | -3 |
| Geographic coordinates | 33 00 S, 56 00 W. |
December
Former President Vázquez dead
December 6
Former President Tabaré Vázquez has died in the suites of lung cancer nine months after leaving office. Successor President Luis Lacalle Pou announces that three days of national mourning will be announced. Vázquez was Uruguay’s first left-wing president from 2005 to 2010 and returned for a second term in 2015. He was a cancer doctor by profession and, as a politician, fought a fierce battle against the tobacco industry.
