Tag: Montevideo

• Monday, September 10th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Cocaine in wool bales exported to Europe, discovered in the port of Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan navy, coast guard and customs have uncovered a major operation to smuggle cocaine “bricks” hidden in wool bales, in a container, from the port of Montevideo to Antwerp, Belgium. The volume discovered according to the Navy report amounts to 417 kilos of high quality cocaine hydrochloride and is considered one of the largest recent successes in the fight against the narcotics gangs.

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• Saturday, September 1st 2018 - 08:00 UTC

  Mercosur expecting a “move” from the EU at this month's negotiations in Montevideo

  

  Brazil's Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes said he expects more “movement” from the European Union as long running talks on a free trade deal with his South American bloc Mercosur head into the home stretch.

• Friday, May 11th 2018 - 08:45 UTC

  Confucius Institute opens in Uruguay to celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations with Beijing

  

  A Confucius Institute recently opened in Uruguay's capital Montevideo, fulfilling a dream for promoters of Chinese culture and locals keen to learn more about China. The institute, a worldwide network that offers a window to Chinese culture through Mandarin (standard Chinese) language classes and other types of courses, opened in April, thanks to an agreement between Uruguay's University of the Republic (Udelar) and Qingdao University in eastern China's Shandong Province.

• Thursday, February 15th 2018 - 01:14 UTC

  United States Travel Advisory for Uruguay

  

  The United States Travel Advisory for Uruguay offered a not very encouraging description of the country for foreign visitors but anyhow is well distanced from most of the rest of Latin American, and neighbors.

• Saturday, December 2nd 2017 - 09:25 UTC

  Uruguay estimates that 2017/18 could be a turning point after several poor cruise seasons

  

  After several seasons of negative growth, 2017/18 looks to be the turning point, with 165 calls, up 15, and 300.000 visitors in Uruguay, (Montevideo and Punta del Este) anticipated Tourism minister Liliam Kechichian during the symbolic launching of the season in Montevideo.

• Saturday, November 26th 2016 - 13:36 UTC

  IDB US$ 60m loan to expand sewage and rainwater drainage in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay will expand sewage and rainwater drainage systems in Montevideo and improve management of City Hall's sanitation system thanks to a US$60 million loan approved by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The money represents the second stage of a line of credit that the IDB approved for investment projects in December 2006.

• Saturday, November 19th 2016 - 09:07 UTC

  Venezuela loses Mercosur voting rights in December, announces Uruguay

  

  Venezuela will continue as member of Mercosur but with no right to vote, since it has not fully incorporated all the group's rules and regulations as had been agreed, revealed Uruguay's foreign minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa on Friday in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 09:23 UTC

  Argentina Mercosur parliament members left out in the cold

  

  Argentina's Lower House left its peers from the Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur, with no allowances, despite claims from most of its 43 members. Last week the Chamber of Deputies approved the Argentine budget which must now be considered by the Senate.

• Friday, November 4th 2016 - 09:42 UTC

  Rousseff in Uruguay declared “Illustrious visitor” of Montevideo and will speak at a political rally

  

  Brazilian ex president Dilma Rousseff is in Uruguay, her first overseas visit since Congress voted her impeachment and removal from office. The leader is scheduled to participate on Friday in a march in downtown Montevideo with Uruguayan unions protesting salary conditions and will also be received at a special ceremony in the town hall where she will be given the keys of the city by mayor Daniel Martinez.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2016 - 07:08 UTC

  Coordinators meeting in Montevideo will find “a definitive solution” to Mercosur acephaly

  

  Paraguay's foreign minister Eladio Loizaga anticipated that the Mercosur coordinators meeting scheduled to take place this Tuesday in Montevideo, will be “definitive” since a proposal to solve the current “acephaly” of the block's presidency which was self proclaimed by Venezuela and questioned by other members, “will emerge”.