Tag: Javier García

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:14 UTC

  Uruguay has its first female Naval Aviation pilot

  

  Ensign Nati Fontaine became Uruguay's first female naval aviation pilot after completing her training course. She was given her credentials by Vice President Beatriz Argimón.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2023 - 10:06 UTC

  Gen. Stevenazzi becomes new Uruguayan Army chief

  

  Gen. Mario Stevenazzi Wednesday took over from Gen. Gerardo Fregosi as head of Uruguay's Army during a ceremony at the Army headquarters in which Defense Minister Javier García praised the force's work during the Covid-19 pandemic and in other matters of national sovereignty.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2022 - 15:15 UTC

  Uruguayan scientists for 2022-23 season arrive at Artigas Base in Antarctica

  

  An Uruguayan Air Force Hercules C-130 aircraft landed at the Artigas Base in Antarctica carrying some 40 scientists for the 2022-2023 campaign to work on 18 projects, marking the 37th anniversary of Uruguay's entry as a consultative member of the Antarctic Treaty System.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:13 UTC

  Uruguayan Defense Minister reviews troops in Middle East

  

  Uruguay's Defense Minister Javier García reviewed the South American country's peacekeeping mission in Sinai 40 years after its deployment.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguayan peacekeepers hospitalized in Uganda

  

  One Uruguayan soldier needed surgery after sustaining a fractured skull and another was reported to be recovering well after they were both attacked in Uganda while on leave from their peacekeeping group in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

• Thursday, August 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  No Uruguayan troops involved in DRC killings

  

  Defense Minister Javier García Wednesday brought peace of mind to the relatives of Uruguayan troops deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO).

• Wednesday, June 15th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  Uruguayan Defense Minister to be summoned over 747 case

  

  Uruguayan lawmakers of the opposition Frente Amplio (FA - Broad Front) Tuesday announced they would summon Defense Minister Javier García before Congress' Defense Committee to explain why he had banned from national airspace the Venezuelan-Iranian Boeing 747-300 now held in Buenos Aires.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Argentina had been tipped there was something strange with the Emtrasur 747

  

  The Governments of Paraguay and Uruguay had alerted Argentina about the Iranian crew flying the Venezuelan-flagged Boeing 747-300 cargo airplane now seized at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport.

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 22:55 UTC

  Uruguayan Air Force to help trace possible mass graves

  

  Uruguay's Air Force (FAU) will assist the Human Rights Institute in tracing possible burials of people forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship using state-of-the-art laser technology, Defense Minister Javier García announced Wednesday.

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Uruguayan President back from Congo Christmas celebration

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has returned home after spending Christmas in Congo with troops from his country stationed there on a UN peacekeeping mission.