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"We have become an excluded minority," she said. Ramirez and other members of Mundo Afro, Uruguay's leading black political and cultural organization, hope to ignite a movement to empower blacks.

The Uruguayan Association of Football Referees (Audaf) demanded a punishment of "the greatest possible severity," and the Afro-Uruguayan group, Atabaque, had urged "exemplary" action. In an ...

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