Uruguay
What's New
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24 June 2011
An extensive new report examines access to information policies and practices in seven Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay.
The report is titled “?Venciendo la Cultura del Secreto. Obstáculos a la implementación de políticas y…
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13 May 2011
A Consultative Council of the Law on Access to Public Information has just been created in Uruguay.
This advisory and consultative body brings together representatives from the academia, the government and the civil society. The council was mandated by the…
News Archive
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13 August 2010
The Uruguay government has published a decree regulating the use of the Law on Access to Public Information (Law 18.381), according to newspaper stories and a report by the Knight Center.
The Archives and Access to Public Information Center launched a…
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7 October 2009
Open government advocates offer first-hand accounts of FOI promotion in Latin America
Latin America’s leading open government advocates recently released a report, bringing together data from 17 countries and offering new findings on the status of freedom of information in…
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25 August 2009
By Jesse Franzblau and Emilene Martinez-Morales
Washington, DC — The US government’s August 24, 2009, release of a controversial CIA 2004 Inspector General report on torture brings new attention to the issue of how information on human rights abuses is…
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19 June 2009
By Greg Michener
In the last year or so, Latin America has been abuzz with news on right-to-know campaigns. But some countries have been buzzing louder than others. Uneven media attention to transparency policy is a global phenomenon with serious…
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26 May 2009
The “minutes” of the World Bank’s executive board meetings, released publicly, are brief notations of the official action, usually one paragraph.
They reveal almost nothing about what transpired during the closed deliberations.
The “summaries,” by contrast, describe the key…
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19 May 2009
By Greg Michener
2008 was a big year for freedom of information movements in Latin America. Three countries passed access to information laws last year (Uruguay, Chile, and Guatemala), officially institutionalizing the publics right to know. Varying degrees of media…
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27 March 2009
By Peter Kornbluh
Special thanks to Marianna Enamoneta, Emilene Martinez-Morales, Carly Ackerman, Joshua Frens-String and Yessica Esquivel Alonso
On April 20th, Chile will become the most recent country to have a functioning Freedom of Information Act—and potentially establish a leading…
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1 January 2003
The leak of a usually secret document describing the terms of a recent World Bank loan to Uruguay has stoked public anger at conditions attached to the loan, according to activists and journalists there. The release also showed how much…
