ABSTRACT
Uruguay is a small country situated where the River Plate joins the Atlantic Ocean towards the south of the Latin American sub-continent. A land poor in mineral resources and ill-suited to the development of intensive farming, it had little to offer colonists except as a battleground between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. Uruguay's favourable location in relation to international consumers and the fact that a lengthy war in the Old World had created an increasing demand for production led to a belief that the national economic model was unassailable. The emergence of an urban guerrilla force, intense social upheaval, was becoming more and more repressive and reactionary. This chapter deals with the young people their position in the Fields of work, housing, education and health, their role in the community, the bases on which they built up their process of identity, the effects of the different agencies of society – of the media.
