Mercosur

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Paraguayans rush to bordering city to buy fuel smuggled in from Argentina

  

  Hundreds of Paraguayans rushed over the weekend to the coastal town of Nanawa – formerly Puerto Elsa – in the Presidente Hayes province to buy cheaper fuel smuggled from Clorinda, Argentina, it was reported.

• Saturday, February 26th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Mercosur can't agree on a joint communiqué on the Ukraine conflict

  

  Lack of consensus on the drafting of a Mercosur joint statement on the Russia/Ukraine situation, plus the fact it was only signed by three of the four block's members, forced on Friday the removal of a first copy.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Rescuing juvenile Magellan penguins along the Uruguayan coast

  

  Uruguayan marine life protection organizations have come across an unexpected number of juvenile penguins on their annual transit to less frigid waters in neighboring southern Brazil.

• Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Brazil and South Korea share it's a good moment to advance with the Mercosur agreement

  

  Brazil's leading think tank, Getulio Vargas Foundation, believes that in the current global trade situation with bottlenecks, shortages of inputs and transport challenges there is a great opportunity to reach an integral trade agreement between Mercosur and South Korea.

• Monday, February 21st 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Paraguay could be forced to import soybeans because drought has halved production

  

  The South American drought that has extended to several Argentine provinces and Brazilian states has also hit hard Paraguay, the world's fourth exporter of soybeans. In effect, crops are suffering and the processing industry is running out of supplies.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 20:29 UTC

  Uruguayan President promised new investments by Argentine group

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou met this week with representatives from the Argentine Grupo Werthein to discuss further developments and investments in the country, it was reported.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 10:17 UTC

  Uruguayan leisure businesses need help after poor summer season due to Omicron

  

  Uruguay’s hotels and restaurants will seek compensation from the Government for their losses during a summer season which was between “mediocre” and “dire,” as tourism was nowhere near pre-pandemic levels, it was announced.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro, Putin discuss strengthening bilateral trade and cooperation

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin Wednesday underlined the future importance of the BRICS partnership (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and called for a more fluent dialogue between the Mercosur and the Eurasian Economic union (EAEU), according to a joint statement released after their meeting in Moscow.

• Wednesday, February 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Foreign Ministers of Argentina, Uruguay highlight bilateral increasing trade

  

  Argentina's Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Tuesday in Buenos Aires with his Uruguayan counterpart Francisco Bustillo to discuss a 33% increase in bilateral trade, among other issues.

• Monday, February 14th 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro visits new populist friends, “strong man Putin” and Hungary's Viktor Orban

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is scheduled to arrive in Russia on Tuesday for an official visit, which has been described at a highly awkward diplomatic timing, given the stand-off in Ukraine between Moscow and the Western alliance.