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Weekly Report - 21 June 2018 (WR-18-24)
URUGUAY: In the grip of insecurity
Widespread protests against insecurity have broken out in recent weeks across Uruguay. They began in Salto, the second-most populous city in Uruguay and capital of Salto department in the north-east of the country, bordering Argentina in late May. But they spread to the capital Montevideo this week when demonstrators took to protesting outside the official residence of President Tabaré Vázquez after a 20-year-old was murdered in a violent theft nearby.
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