Tag: Carolina Cosse

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Motion to impeach Mayor of Montevideo filed

  

  Montevideo Councilors from the National (White) and Colorado parties have filed for the impeachment of Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) Mayor Carolina Cosse over her allegedly repeated failure to submit a series of reports requested from her office.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 23:53 UTC

  Uruguay's President Lacalle hits all-time high disapproval

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has reached an all-time high disapproval rating since taking office in March of 2020, according to a study from the consulting firm Cifra released Wednesday.

• Saturday, May 15th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Google buys 30-hectare property in Uruguay's Science Park

  

  Google's subsidiary in Uruguay, Eleanor Applications SRL, Friday purchased 30 hectares in the duty-free Science Park in Canelones, where it will install a data centre, it was announced.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  Municipal election in Uruguay: a woman the next mayor of Montevideo and an estimated 90% voters turnout

  

  The next mayor of Uruguay's capital is a woman, Carolina Cosse, an electronics engineer, who has worked in the private sector and more recently in government as head of Uruguay's telecom company and minister of industry.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 20:37 UTC

  Google data center project in Uruguay under way

  

  Google plans to build a data centre for storage and server management within Uruguay's Science Park in the Canelones area, it was announced. It will be Google's second such facility in Latin America, the other one being in Chile.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay holding presidential primaries on 30 June: three main candidates outstand

  

  The last Sunday of June Uruguay will be holding presidential primaries when political parties will be choosing their candidates for the coming election scheduled for next October. There are over a dozen hopefuls, but only three, maybe four or five can be considered sufficiently strong as to be taken into account. After all from one of these parties will come the next president of Uruguay, since there is no consecutive reelection in Uruguay.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 07:10 UTC

  Uruguay and oil hopes: a permanent bidding round scheme, after failure of latest auction

  

  Uruguay will move towards a permanent offer process for offshore oil blocks as other Latin American countries have done, after an April auction failed to attract bids, Industry, Energy and Mining Minister Carolina Cosse said in an interview.

• Saturday, October 21st 2017 - 07:30 UTC

  Uruguay government announces presence of hydrocarbons in an exploratory well

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Friday the presence of hydrocarbons in the north west of the country, in the framework of exploratory drilling by US based Schuepbach Energy. The discovery took place in the county of Paysandu, some 400kms north of the capital Montevideo.

• Friday, April 1st 2016 - 06:07 UTC

  Total/Exxon/Mobil drilling offshore Uruguay a record-deep well; first since 1976

  

  A consortium led by France's Total and U.S.-based super major ExxonMobil Corp started this week drilling for oil off Uruguay, Industry, Energy and Mining Minister Carolina Cosse announced. Uruguay is totally reliant on imports for its oil and has for decades tried to discover possible hydrocarbons resources both in the continent and offshore.

• Thursday, July 25th 2013 - 06:01 UTC

  Uruguay expects to launch its first broadcasting and infrared info satellite in 2014

  

  The first satellite of the Uruguayan AntelSat project will be launched at the beginning of 2014, according to the country's telecom authority Antel.