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Montevideo, May 23rd 2025 - 20:13 UTC

Mercosur

  • Monday, October 14th 2024 - 09:07 UTC

    Colorado candidate picks wrong analogy to describe Uruguay's relationship with Mercosur

    Ojeda made his point that “Uruguay cannot make 50 threats to leave a Mercosur from which it is never going to leave”

    Colorado Party presidential candidate Andrés Ojeda chose a controversial analogy this weekend to refer to Uruguay's situation within the South American Common Market (Mercosur). He claimed it was affecting his country's credibility not to kill any hostage when hijacking airplanes.

  • Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 10:03 UTC

    Italian Deputy PM pledges to help pull through EU-Mercosur FTA

    “Italy and Brazil will cooperate in every way because it is in the interest of our people,” Tajani said

    Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and top diplomat Antonio Tajani told a group of Brazilian businesspeople in Sao Paulo Wednesday that his country was facing “a great opportunity” to strengthen its economic and commercial presence in Latin America, particularly through the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement that is still pending ratification.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    Uruguay: Montevideo-Salto route by a foreign carrier started

    Paranair's new service is in line with Uruguay's newly signed open skies agreements with Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay

    Paraguayan carrier Paranair Tuesday performed the maiden flight between the Uruguayan cities of Montevideo and Salto, thus marking the beginning of a new era in commercial aviation with foreign operators serving domestic routes.

  • Saturday, September 7th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Paraguay and Argentina reach understanding on Waterway tolls

    A mechanism was also established for the reimbursements of fees paid in excess since February last year, it was explained

    The governments of Paraguay and Argentina have reached an understanding regarding the collection of tolls on the latter's part for the use of the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway, it was announced.

  • Thursday, September 5th 2024 - 14:35 UTC

    Uruguay welcomes Argentina's support to Mercosur countries negotiating solo if necessary

    “It is always better to go all together,” said Paganini. But if that is not possible, negotiations should be undertaken “individually or with the countries that can,” he added

    The Uruguayan Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou has found in Javier Milei's Argentina the partner it longed for within the Southern Common Market to clear the way for individual members of the bloc to seek unilateral trade alliances with other countries or regional alliances. In this scenario, Foreign Minister Omar Paganini Wednesday welcomed Buenos Aires' endorsement to make Mercosur more flexible.

  • Wednesday, September 4th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Uruguay inaugurates fishing port terminal

    “The Argentine government understood, after 200 years of struggle,” that Montevideo's port offers better conditions than that of Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan authorities inaugurated a new fishing port in Capurro on Tuesday after a US$ 110 million investment, an “important milestone” that will house the activity in Montevideo, President Luis Lacalle Pou explained. The head of state also pointed out that “it has been many years since a public port was built here.”

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Four LatAm countries insist Venezuela's TSJ consolidated fraud

    Arévalo de León, Boric, Lacalle, and Peña agreed on calling Maduro a dictator

    Four Latin American countries were quick Thursday to voice their disagreement with Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ratifying incumbent President Nicolás Maduro's alleged win at the July 28 elections despite fraud denunciations by the opposition backed by the Organization of American States (OAS) and a large part of the international community.

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 08:53 UTC

    Mercosur's beef production up; Argentina's output and consumption down

    In addition, Argentina's beef exports went up as local consumers cannot afford the retail prices

    Cattle slaughtering within the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) in the first seven months of this year reached nearly 27 million head, which represented a 2.05 million increase from the same period of 2023 as well as an all-time high.

  • Tuesday, August 13th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Mercosur-China talks held in Montevideo

    “Uruguay has been a promoter of this type of dialogue,” Albertoni stressed

    Deputy Foreign Minister Nicolás Albertoni met Monday with his Chinese colleague Hua Chunying in Montevideo as the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) under Uruguay's rotating presidency kept pushing for a Free Trade Agreement with the Asian giant. Also present were dignitaries from the other members of the regional bloc as well as Beijing's Ambassador Huang Yazhong.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2024 - 09:40 UTC

    Argentina decrees 63% hike on Paraná-Paraguay Waterway tolls

    The new price was set taking into account the CPI over the last 22 years, it was explained

    The Argentine administration of President Javier Milei decreed a 63% hike in the tolls collected from barges sailing through the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway effective this month. The adjustment set a new price of US$ 4.98 (from the previous US$ 3.06) per Net Register Ton (NRT). The figure is projected to reach US$ 6.04 per TRN in 2027.