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Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Rep?blica Oriental del Uruguay




CONSTITUTION

* Constituciones (Uruguay. Podor Legislativo) includes 1934 to the present; in Spanish
* Uruguay: Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) in Spanish

EXECUTIVE

* Presidencia de la Republica
* Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores
* Uruguay: Executive Institutions / Instituciones Executiva (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

JUDICIAL

* Suprema Corte de Justicia

LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Poder Legislativo - Camara de Representantes and Poder Legislativo - Senadores (both in Spanish) - Offers access to the Constitution and a virtually all current national laws, plus major regulatory texts. These instruments and essays may be reached through:
o Legislacion (in Spanish) Offers present and most recent Constitutions (i.e., of 1967 and 1952), plus a comparative study. Provides copies of all of Uruguay's law codes, including its aviation, civil, commercial, customs, minerals, penal, tax, water codes; Code of Minors; and General Code of Procedure. Several major regulatory decrees, including those on administrative procedure, Social Security, taxation, and accounting standards, are also included
o LAWS Provides a search engine for a databases comprised of all Uruguayan laws from January 1946 to the present, in html format. The search may be made either by law number or by a string search of the texts.
* GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 8,009 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from March 1950 to present
* Banco de Prevision Sociale [Social Security Bank]
* NATLEX: Uruguay (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights


LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: Uruguay (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
* FindLaw: Uruguay
* ForIntLaw: Uruguay (Washburn University Law Library)
* Natural Resources Legislation: Uruguay (University of Denver College of Law)
* JURIST: Uruguay (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
* World Legal Materials from South America: Uruguay (Cornell Legal Information Institute)


GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Uruguay (Library of Congress) December 1990
* Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
* Portals to the World: Uruguay (Library of Congress)
* Background Notes: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Uruguay (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* Consular Information Sheet: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Country Information: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under Western Hemisphere / the Americas
* Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Embassy of Uruguay, Washington
* Governments on the WWW: Uruguay (Gunnar Anzinger)
* Human Rights in Uruguay (Amnesty International)
* International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Uruguay (U.S. Dept. of State)
* NEWS: BBC World Americas
* U.S. Embassy, Montevido (U.S. Dept. of State)
* World Factbook: Uruguay (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Uruguay (Google); Uruguay (Yahoo); WWW-VL Latin American Studies: Uruguay (University of Texas, Austin)