News stories by Ines Acosta

MONTEVIDEO, Jan 12 (IPS) - Uruguay, about to become the first country in the world where the state will fully regulate production, sale and distribution of marijuana, will spend the next few months selecting a good quality strain of the crop that can be sold at a price similar to current illegal prices.

MONTEVIDEO, Oct 29 (IPS) - "We have come together to join forces, to be heard, because we want to speak for ourselves," said Ernestina Ochoa, a Peruvian domestic worker, at the close of the founding congress of the International Domestic Workers Federation in the Uruguayan capital.

MEXICO CITY/MONTEVIDEO, Sep 27 (IPS) - In Latin America, where marijuana is the most widely consumed illegal drug, there is basically no home-grown research into its effects and properties. But possible legalisation in Uruguay and the Mexican capital could open the door to new studies.

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 28 (IPS) - Uruguay needs to reinforce and expand its electric power grid to absorb the 1,200 megawatts of wind energy that it plans to generate by 2015.

MONTEVIDEO, Jul 24 (IPS) - A record number of sea turtles are turning up on Uruguayan beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and Río de la Plata this Southern hemisphere winter, suffering from cold shock and hypothermia.