Mercosur

• Wednesday, December 21st 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Abundant rainfall in central Brazil helps Paraná River recover navigable level

  

  After years of forcibly lighter shiploads due to the intense down flow of the Parana River, the water level has begun to grow again, especially in the last couple of months. Thus according to the Rosario Grain Exchange, the average shipload of vessels sailing upriver rose 21% in two months and stood at more than 38,000 tons in November. Furthermore, the current water level is 23% above November last year and 19% above the November 2020 average.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 19:29 UTC

  Uruguay's Tourism Minister would like fewer requirements for foreign travelers

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Tourism Tabaré Viera insisted this week that lifting all sanitary requirements from inbound travelers would be “the desirable” thing to do, but admitted that, in the end, such a decision was up to the health authorities who needed to protect the local population first and foremost.

• Friday, December 16th 2022 - 13:58 UTC

  Uruguay-United States relations promise “a lot of development possible”

  

  Uruguay and the United States are on the path of a “possible development”, according to the Secretary of the Presidency of the South American country, Álvaro Delgado. The official highlighted Thursday the importance of the Alliance for Economic Prosperity in the Americas and the relationship with Washington.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 18:20 UTC

  Uruguay publishes unilateral statement regarding Mercosur Summit

  

  Uruguay Wednesday issued a closing statement Wednesday ratifying President Luis Lacalle Pou's intentions to keep seeking trade opportunities outside Mercosur. The document came after the South American bloc's LXI Summit held earlier this week in Montevideo, which, unlike previous gatherings, produced no joint declaration.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Mercosur Summit: Fernández tells Lacalle going solo is not the solution

  

  “When in a society the rules are broken, someone is breaking them,” Argentine President Alberto Fernández told his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou during the Mercosur Summit in Montevideo Wednesday.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Argentina to take over Mercosur's pro-tempore presidency amid Uruguay's solo deals

  

  Argentina is to take over Tuesday the pro-tempore presidency of Mercosur from Uruguay in Montevideo, where the hosts' unilateral search for other markets behind the regional bloc's back has stirred controversies.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 20:04 UTC

  Argentine FM fears Uruguay's solo run might lead to Mercosur breakup

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday said in Montevideo ahead of the Mercosur Presidential Summit that Uruguay's one-sided negotiations with foreign blocs could end up in the dissolution of the South American Common Market.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Mercosur Summit to kick off in Montevideo with CPTPP issue topping the agenda

  

  The 61st Summit of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) is starting Monday in Montevideo. During the two-day event, Uruguay is to hand over the six-month pro tempore presidency of the group to Argentina.

• Friday, December 2nd 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  Paraguay rules out a Mercosur breakup and calls for consensus on decisions

  

  Paraguayan Foreign Minister, Julio César Arriola, ruled out on Thursday a break up within the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and ratified that his country supports that the decisions of that integration mechanism be adopted jointly and by consensus.

• Thursday, December 1st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Paraguayan President critical of Uruguay's plan to join other trade blocs

  

  Paraguay's President Mario Abdo Benítez Wednesday said that Uruguay's negotiating trade deals outside Mercosur were detrimental to the South American bloc's “essence.”