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An aircraft taking part in a memorial for an air disaster has crashed, killing one.

A deal to allow for 14 flights a week to Colombia has been signed and more agreements are in the pipeline.

While Uruguay doesn't have big-ticket tourist attractions like Iguazu Falls and Christ the Redeemer, it definitely deserves to be a tourist destination in its own right.

Counting down to the Fifa Under-20 World Cup, which begins in two days, the Herald looks at how each group stacks up.

French food giant Danone has entered an agreement to buy New Zealand dairy processing firms Sutton Group and Gardians.

Uruguay's Senate has approved the world's first national marketplace for legal marijuana, an audacious and risky plan that puts the government in charge of growing, selling and using a drug that is illegal almost everywhere else.

Gaucho are the original cowboys who roamed southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina after the Spanish introduced cattle to South America, then largely abandoned them. Today, the gaucho philosophy remains on farms throughout South America, with riders expected to wear cowboy boots, baggy pants and wide-brimmed hats... and to ride the gaucho way - one-handed.

In the Uruguayan countryside, Geoff Cumming embraces the philosophy of South America's original cowboys.