Mercosur

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Uruguayan President announces the end of the sanitary emergency

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday announced he would be lifting all sanitary restrictions in place in his country following a meeting with Health Minister and other aides.

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:21 UTC

  Brazil still committed to joining OECD, Minister Guedes tells the group

  

  Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes Monday reaffirmed in Paris his country's commitments to the guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Uruguayans decide to maintain key law for Lacalle’s government with tight referendum result

  

  After the voting on this Sunday, in which Uruguayans went to the polls in a referendum to decide whether to keep or repeal the flagship legislative package of President Luis Lacalle Pou's government, the preliminary results ended up giving the victory to the ruling coalition, albeit by a very slim margin.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Paraguay changes into GMT-4 Daylight Saving Time

  

  Paraguay has moved into “winter time” Sunday on the advice of the National Electricity Administration, which seeks to curb consumption. It has thus become the only Mercosur country living under a GMT (or UTC) -4 time zone, while Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil are GMT -3.

• Sunday, March 27th 2022 - 23:51 UTC

  Polls are closed in Uruguay: Vote count begins in referendum questioning the government

  

  The Uruguayan Electoral Court started counting the votes cast for the referendum against the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), the main project of the Government of Luis Lacalle Pou, after the closing of the more than seven thousand centers enabled in the country at 19.30 local time.

• Friday, March 25th 2022 - 22:01 UTC

  Mercosur health ministers agree sanitary measures need to be unified

  

  Health Ministers from all four Mercosur full member countries in addition to Chile's Thursday agreed during a meeting in Montevideo to work on unified sanitary requirements regarding COVID-19 for international travel.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Punta del Este needs more schools to accommodate new residents

  

  The exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este is experiencing an increase in the development and establishment of schools, as migrating inflows of Argentines and also of people from other parts of the country to become permanent residents have put pressure on the demand.

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:43 UTC

  Petropar lowers price of fuel at pumps effective March 21

  

  The price of fuel at pumps in Paraguay will be reduced as of Monday, the state-run company Petropar has announced.

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Uruguay seeks to exonerate VAT on popular meat cut, announced Lacalle Pou

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said on Friday that the Executive Branch will send to the Legislative a bill to exonerate VAT on asado de tira, a popular meat cut, as the Ukraine war takes its toll on the cost of food worldwide.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Vaccinated travelers to be spared further testing to enter Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera has requested his Public Health colleague Daniel Salinas to review the possibility that incoming travelers fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are spared the swab test at the earliest.