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URUGUAY: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS LATEST
Spanish/Nat
Voters in Uruguay headed for the polling stations on Sunday to elect a successor to outgoing President Julio Maria Sanguinetti.
The election in the South American nation of two point four (m) million voters is widely being...
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URUGUAY: PLIGHT OF THE CUBAN REFUGEES
Spanish/Nat
A group of Cuban refugees who were sent from the United States navy base in Guantanamo to Uruguay say they have not been given the treatment promised to them by the Americans.
The Cubans, who were picked up in the sea off...
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Celebrations even as exit polls suggest run-off needed
A blunt-talking former guerrilla seeking to maintain the left's hold on power in Uruguay easily got the most votes in Sunday's presidential elections, but failed to win the majority needed to avoid a November runoff.
Jose "Pepe" Mujica...
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Environmentalists protest against proposed paper mill on Uruguay border
1. Wide of police outside 'Buquebus' ferry company terminal
2. Medium of 'Buquebus' sign
3. Wide of ferry at port
4. Wide of protestors
5. Medium of protestors
6. Close up sign reading in Spanish "Get out Botnia"
7. Medium of poster...
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Argentinean Japanese couple wins tango stage world championship
1. Wide of Tango dancers Rodrigo Gaston Fleitas Torielli and Maria Noel Sciuto dancing on stage
2. Various of Argentinean couples dancing on stage
3. Wide of dancers on stage waiting for the announcement of the winners
4. Zoom in to...
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Fans gather ahead of Uruguay vs SKorea match
1. Wide of beach
2. Wide of surfer on wave
3. Mid of children playing in the waves
4. Pan of two South Korea fans walking and cheering
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Daniel Jang, South Korea fan from Seoul:
"I am very proud of the performance of...
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Andes plane crash survivors play anniv. rugby match
1.Roberto Canessa receiving the "arriero" (carrier) who found them in 1972
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roberto Canessa, survivor:
"Thirty years of efforts have allowed the sons of people who were lost and their relatives who have been...
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President Bush arrives in Uruguay on second stop of tour
1. Wide of arrival of Air Force One (US Presidential Airplane)
2. Close of the United States presidential seal
3. Various of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush getting off plane
4. President Bush greeted by officials,...
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Uruguay becomes 3rd country in Americas to legalise same sex weddings
1. Pan of politicians raising hands to vote on legislation that allows same sex couples to marry
2. Mid pan of politicians, some with raised hands, some not, UPSOUND: (Spanish) official reading vote results:
"71 out of 92" (vote in...
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Carnival celebrations
1. Pan across drummers
2. People dancing in parade
3. Man twirling baton
4. Various of women dancing
5. Woman dancing in bikini carnival costume
6. Close-up of man playing drum
7. Close-up feet moving with the rhythm
8. Close-up man...
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CHILE: RICARDO LAGOS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT (2)
Spanish/Nat
Pledging to bring a still-powerful armed forces to heel, Ricardo Lagos was sworn in Saturday as president.
He's Chile's second socialist to take the post since Salvador Allende was killed in a 1973 coup.
Lagos gained national...
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Inauguration of the new Mercosur Parliament ADDS ceremony
1. Wide of Mercosur legislative palace
2. Mid of Mercosur legislative palace
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Alberto Lacalle, Former Uruguayan President:
"We have a clear opinion contrary to the Mercosur Parliament. This block (the...
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SYND 29-11-71 URUGUAYANS VOTE IN MONTEVIDEO IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Uruguayans vote in Montevideo in presidential elections
1) various shots, crowds arguing in street as voting begins
2) people queue to vote
3) cu thumb print being taken, pull back, interior polling center
4) woman places vote in box
5)...
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Haitian teen allegedly abused by UN peacekeepers leaves for Uruguay trial
1. Walking shot of alleged victim going up steps and heading to vehicle
2. Mid of vehicle's door closing
3. Vehicle pulling away
4. Wide of meeting between alleged victim, family representative and Uruguayan Ambassador-at-Large Romero...
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Mercosur bloc + Bolivia, Chile and Mexico meet
4 July 2002
1. Various of Mercosur presidents (of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay) and guest presidents (Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia, Ricardo Lagos of Chile and Vicente Fox of Mexico) sitting at photo op
2. Duhalde gives Cardoso a...
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Former Uruguayan rugby players offer support to trapped miners
1. Convoy of vehicles arriving
2. Former Uruguay rugby player and Andes plane crash survivor Jose Luis Inciarte stepping out of car
3. Inciarte greeting miner's wife
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Inciarte, Uruguay plane crash...