Cuban Uruguayans

Cuban Uruguayans
Total population
456 (2011 Uruguayan Census)
Languages
Cuban Spanish and Rioplatense Spanish

Cuban Uruguayans are people born in Cuba who live in Uruguay, or Uruguayan-born people of Cuban descent. As of 2019, there were 24,485 Cubans living in Uruguay.[1]

Overview

There are some Cuban-born persons living in Uruguay, for a number of reasons. Both countries share the Spanish language; their historical origins are common (part of the Spanish Empire). Uruguay is a very small, quiet country, where Cuban exiles have looked for a new opportunity as part of a big inflow of Latin Americans coming to Uruguay.[2]

The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 456 people declaring Cuba as their country of birth.[3] As of 2013, there are just 6 Cubans registered in the Uruguayan social security.[4] Official sources show that over 1,700 Cubans entered Uruguay in 2016.[5] In 2018, 12,648 Cubans entered to Uruguay and left 4,005. As of December 2025, over 8,000 Cuban citizens applied for Uruguayan residency.[6]

There is a remarkable presence of Cuban ophthalmologists working for the Uruguayan national health system.[7]

Cubans residing in Uruguay run their own association since 1989.[8]

Notable people

  • Ernesto Talvi (born 1957), son of a Cuban mother, is an economist and presidential candidate of the Colorado Party

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/cuba-es/article240164388.html. (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "Uruguay has 77,000 immigrants". Montevideo.comm. 17 June 2013. (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ "Immigration to Uruguay" (PDF). INE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2013. (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Foreign workers in Uruguay". EL PAIS. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2013. (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ "Complex immigration numbers". Búsqueda. 5 January 2017. (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ Urwicz, Tomer (25 April 2026). "La jugada de una pareja rusa que atrajo "a más de 100 familias" e inversionistas a Uruguay" (in Spanish). El Observador. Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  7. ↑ "Cuban ophthalmologists working in Uruguay". El Espectador. 6 August 2014. (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ "Cubans residing in Uruguay". Retrieved 14 December 2014. (in Spanish)
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