(FILES) A man walks past a graffiti depicting late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano in Montevideo on July 11, 2024, amid a polar cold wave. Uruguay was, in addition to Iceland, one of just two countries in the world that did not record an above-average temperature for 2024, bucking a global-warming trend largely due to cold snaps it experienced. (Photo by Eitan ABRAMOVICH / AFP)