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Montevideo, December 3rd 2024 - 20:45 UTC

Latin America

  • Friday, May 9th 2014 - 06:47 UTC

    Brazil says Mercosur/EU to meet in Brussels at the end of May for trade talks

    Minister Borges also announced that Mercosur will hold a preparatory meeting in Caracas, next week

    At the end of May Mercosur will be ready to exchange tariff-reduction proposals with the European Union, announced Brazilian Industry minister Mauro Borges who also anticipated the trade block would be holding a preparatory meeting next week in Caracas, Venezuela.

  • Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:50 UTC

    “The open veins of Latin America” is a boring undocumented book, admits his author

    Eduardo (Hughes) Galeano made the public admission at the Brasilia book show

    Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview published on the Argentine newspaper Perfil.com that he considers his 1971 book “The Open Veins of Latin America”, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances.

  • Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:44 UTC

    “Long hands” mayor apologizes for clutching a reporter's thigh

    Mayor Fernandez with his 'long hand' on the television reporter's thigh

    Bolivia's 'long hands' mayor apologized for this latest temptation caught while clutching the thigh of a television reporter sitting next to him during an official ceremony. Percy Fernandez, 75, is the elected mayor of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia largest city and apparently has a 'long hands' and 'forcibly kissing” record.

  • Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:38 UTC

    Colombian May 25 presidential candidates suffer severe credibility blows

    Polls show Santos still ahead, but before the Rendón and Zuluaga's incidents

    Just three weeks before Colombia’s presidential election begins, President Juan Manuel Santos’ re-election campaign has been hit by yet another blow. His chief campaign strategist J.J. Rendón resigned on Monday night amid controversial allegations that he took 12 million dollars from some of Colombia’s top drug lords in exchange for helping to negotiate their surrender with positive terms.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 21:29 UTC

    Uruguay to sign agreement with Brazil to boost the naval construction industry

    Minister Kreimerman made the announcement during the launching of a barge with 5.000 tons capacity for the pulp industry

    Uruguay and Brazil will be signing this month an agreement to promote the development of Uruguay's naval construction industry, which has been described as one of the fastest growing sectors of the economy, said Industry and Energy minister Roberto Kreimerman in Montevideo during the launching of a barge for the pulp industry.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

    Mujica says Obama has 'his hands and feet tied' so that 'he can't do a thing'

    The Uruguayan president is scheduled to meet Obama and Kerry next Monday

    Less than a week before meeting with Barack Obama in Washington, Uruguayan president Jose Mujica described his peer as a 'progressive leader who has his feet and hands tied” and described the fact he made it to the White House, a complete surprise, 'almost unconceivable'.

  • Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

    Uruguay's inflation index down 0.06% in April; four-month index 4.68%

    Health-care was the item which most receded because of the freeze on the monthly payment

    Uruguay's inflation index was down 0.06% during April with the annual index standing at 9.18% and 4.68% in the first four months of the year, according to the latest release from the country's stats office, INE.

  • Monday, May 5th 2014 - 21:29 UTC

    Malvinas Islands British occupation a 'latent threat' for Uruguay's defense policy

    Minister Fernandez Huidobro, very close to Mujica and a supporter of Argentine foreign policy

    The Uruguayan government considers the British occupation of the Malvinas Islands as a 'latent threat' according to a work-paper with basic points of the country's defense policy and which is to be made public this week, some excerpts of which were advanced by the pro-government daily La Republica.

  • Monday, May 5th 2014 - 07:24 UTC

    Varela wins Panama election, defeats Martinelli's incumbent candidate

    The next president, broke away with the ruling party and campaigned against corruption and Martinelli's iron-fist style

    Panama’s Electoral Committee declared opposition candidate Juan Carlos Varela as the winner of Sunday's election and the country's next president: he captured 39% of the vote with more than 80% of ballots counted. In Panama there is no run-off and no re-election so president Ricardo Martinelli nominated his successor and completed the ticket with his wife, Marta Linares de Martinelli.

  • Monday, May 5th 2014 - 07:04 UTC

    Uruguay displaces Argentina as the main supplier of milk to Brazil

    Dairy farming in Uruguay has been increasing sustainably for decades

    Uruguay's dairy industry has overtaken Argentina as the main supplier of milk to Brazil, according to Globo Rural, a Brazilian site which specializes in farming news. “Brazil's imports were globally 60% Argentine milk and the rest, 40% from Uruguay, but now Uruguay has moved to over 50%, meaning Argentina is losing ground in Latam largest economy and leading Mercosur partner”, Anibal Schaller manager of the Milk Industry Center, admitted to Globo Rural.