Uruguay in three generations

The invisible mountain, by Carolina de Robertis / Vintage Editions

The first novel of Carolina de Robertis begins as an elliptical fantasy tale. Immigrants arrive by sea and see a mountain on the coast. They found a city and and call it Montevideo (Monte-vid-eo: I see a mountain). Then, a few decades later, at the dawn of the twentieth century in the Uruguayan countryside, an Indian child is found at the top of a tree. She had been missing for weeks, given for dead and his father suspected of being the murderer.

The old guerrillero

José Pepe Mujica

Tomorrow Uruguay will vote. And the virtually future president of Uruguay is a controversial man. All the polls indicate that José Mujica should be the next president of Uruguay. Do not rely on his perfect grandfather look: in the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the most wanted people in the country. José Mujica, alias “El Pepe”, was part of the National Liberation Movement – Tucamaros.