Uruguay

• Monday, April 20th 2026 - 21:44 UTC

  Falklands: Uruguay Sciences Faculty researching sandy beaches of the Islands

  

  A group of Uruguayan scientists have spent the last two weeks gathering samples from beaches around the Falkland Islands. Their research is aimed at discovering how humans and wildlife affect ecosystems within the sandy coastline.

• Saturday, April 18th 2026 - 02:53 UTC

  Uruguayan court rejects injunction against offshore seismic prospection, allowing exploration to continue

  

  A Montevideo civil court dismissed an injunction filed by social organizations and fishing industry unions against seismic prospection activities for hydrocarbon exploration in Uruguay's exclusive economic zone, allowing operations by the company Viridien (CGG Services) to continue on an offshore block assigned to oil major Chevron.

• Thursday, April 16th 2026 - 22:46 UTC

  Uruguay says RAF Falklands flight was medevac; Tierra del Fuego alleges airspace breach

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Defense confirmed on Wednesday that the flight of a Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A400M Atlas between the Falkland Islands and Montevideo was a medical evacuation of two patients, authorized under decree 419/021, which permits the landing of foreign state aircraft for humanitarian reasons or force majeure. Uruguayan Air Force press spokesperson Marisol Diana provided the explanation to Informativo Uruguay.

• Thursday, April 16th 2026 - 00:55 UTC

  Logistics corridor to Falklands via Uruguay: former Kirchnerist diplomat denounces untracked flight

  

  A Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A400M Atlas transport aircraft operated on April 12 between Mount Pleasant base in the Falkland Islands and Carrasco airport in Montevideo, switching off its transponder during the return leg to the islands, rendering it invisible to civilian tracking systems, according to the specialized outlet Escenario Mundial, which identified the aircraft as registration ZM413 operating flights RRR4000 (outbound) and RRR4001 (return).

• Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 10:20 UTC

  Uruguay bets on international integration to attract investment amid global uncertainty

  

  Uruguay's government responded on Tuesday to the International Monetary Fund's latest projections with a strategy centered on trade openness and investment attraction. Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Martín Vallcorba acknowledged the world is going through “a moment of great uncertainty” driven by the Middle East war, but said the country is working to create “positive and favorable conditions for investment and growth.”

• Wednesday, April 15th 2026 - 02:30 UTC

  Orsi to meet Sanchez, Sheinbaum and Ramaphosa in Barcelona at multilateralism summit

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi will travel to Barcelona on Friday to attend the fourth “Democracy Always” summit, a gathering of 19 heads of state convened by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, where the Uruguayan leader will focus his remarks on “the value of multilateralism,” according to Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin.

• Monday, April 13th 2026 - 00:27 UTC

  Uruguay hosts DEA summit that warns of new drug trafficking routes in South America

  

  Uruguay hosted the 2nd Regional Coordination Meeting of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Southern Cone Division, a conference held on April 9–10 in Montevideo that brought together representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and the United States to strengthen cooperation against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.

• Saturday, April 11th 2026 - 04:49 UTC

  Argentine court orders environmental studies over HIF plant in Uruguay

  

  A federal court in the Argentine city of Concepción del Uruguay on Friday ordered a series of environmental studies and requested information from Uruguayan agencies after accepting a lawsuit against the Uruguayan state and multinational HIF Global over a green hydrogen plant project in Paysandú, in a new source of bilateral tension that echoes the Botnia pulp mill conflict of the early 2000s.

• Friday, April 10th 2026 - 02:09 UTC

  Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's GDP growth in 2025, generating $2.04 billion in exports

  

  Tourism accounted for nearly half of Uruguay's gross domestic product growth in 2025 and represented 6.2% of the country's economic activity, according to the first monitor produced by the Uruguayan Chamber of Tourism together with the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Reality (Ceres), presented on Thursday in Punta del Este.

• Thursday, April 9th 2026 - 07:40 UTC

  Uruguay considers relocating HIF Global's green hydrogen megaplant to ease tensions with Argentina

  

  Uruguay's government is considering relocating within the department of Paysandú the synthetic fuels plant planned by multinational HIF Global, in an effort to simultaneously defuse diplomatic tensions with Argentina and advance what would be the largest private investment in the country's history, estimated at $5.385 billion in its final phase.