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Uruguay was the last colony settled by Spain in the Americas. Part of the Spanish viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata until revolutionaries expelled the Spanish in 1811 and subsequently a province of Brazil, Uruguay declared independence on 25 Aug. 1825. Conflict between two political parties, the blancos (conservatives) and the Colorados (liberals) led, in 1865–70, to the War of the Triple Alliance. In 1903 peace was restored under the Colorados president José Batlle y Ordóñez.
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Gonzalez, L. E., Political Structures and Democracy in Uruguay. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1992
Sosowski, S. (ed.) Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture. Duke Univ. Press, 1993
National library: Biblioteca Nacional del Uruguay, 18 de julio de 1790, Montevideo.
National Statistical Office: Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Rio Negro 1520, Montevideo.
Website (Spanish only): http://www.ine.gub.uy/
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Turner, B. (2007). Uruguay. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2008. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74024-6_294
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