Efforts to overturn an amnesty for officials from Uruguay's former dictatorship have failed in the country's congress, according to AP. Members of the leftist ruling party fell one vote short of the 50 votes needed to overturn the amnesty early Friday. Uruguay adopted amnesties for soldiers and their leftist guerrilla foes after the end of the 1973-1985 military government. Voters have twice upheld the amnesties. But human rights groups say the military amnesty permits crimes to go unpunished and the country's Supreme Court say the military amnesty is unconstitutional.
