Uruguay

• Saturday, March 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Vazquez next to Bush calls for “open regional integration process”

  

  Standing next to visiting US president George Bush, Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez said Saturday his country supports “an open integration process” for the region, but is also fully supportive of “a strong regional integration process”.

• Saturday, March 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “No talks with Argentina with blocked bridges” reiterates Vazquez

  

  In spite of the simultaneous blockading by Argentine pickets of the three bridges leading to Uruguay, President Tabare Vazquez reiterated during a joint press conference on Saturday next to visiting US President George Bush that he will “not negotiate while the blockades persist”.

• Thursday, March 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  In spite of pickets Uruguay's summer season was “good”

  Uruguay's summer season (December/March) attracted 650.000 foreign tourists of which 412.000 Argentines and 115.000 Brazilians according to an official release Thursday from the Ministry of Tourism. Overall the season was described as “good” but less promising than 2005/06.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan economy grew 6.5% in 2006; GDP 19.5 billion

  

  Uruguay's economy expanded 6.5% in 2006 said President Tabare Vazquez according to a draft copy from his state of the nation speech to be delivered March first. This is half a point less than the 7% originally estimated.

• Sunday, February 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Lula: “Uruguay should be satisfied with Mercosur benefits”

  ”All Mercosur members should be satisfied with the benefits and advantages obtained inside the (trade) block, because only like this will they remain hooked to the integration process”, said Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva who this Monday begins a (long expected) brief six hours visit to neighbouring Uruguay.

• Thursday, February 15th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Four dead, 25 intoxicated in jigger accident in Montevideo

  

  Four crew members killed and 25 intoxicated including rescue workers was the final toll of an ammoniac escape/explosion on board a Korean jigger moored at the port of Montevideo.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Botnia keeps to plan and opens disputed pulp mill in 3Q

  

  The controversial Botnia-Orion pulp mill under construction in Uruguay and challenged by Argentina, is “keeping to the timetable” and forecasted to be “officially inaugurated” sometime in the third quarter of this year (July-September), according to reliable sources from the Finnish corporation.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Pulp mills dispute: next round in Madrid, early March

  

  Representatives from Uruguay and Argentina will sit to dialogue about the pulp mill controversy at the end of February or beginning of March in Madrid, according to diplomatic sources in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, February 7th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Controversy in Uruguayan government over Bush's March visit

  

  United States president George Bush will be visiting Uruguay next March 8/9 as part of a Latinamerican tour that also includes Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala and Colombia, was announced Wednesday in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay: Punta's real-estate explosion

  

  The glitter is back at the Uruguayan peninsula long known as South America's summer playground for the rich and famous — a Latin version of Monaco or the Hamptons of New York.