Tag: José Mujica

• Monday, July 21st 2014 - 07:14 UTC

  Mujica recalls Uruguay's participation in the Triple Alliance major genocide

  

  President Jose Mujica underlined the strong identity of Uruguay with the Paraguayan people, but also recalled no the “immense debt that we never settled or will we ever be able to settle for having participated in the War of the Triple Alliance”.

• Friday, July 18th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

  US confirms six Guantanamo prisoners will be transferred to Uruguay

  

  President Barack Obama's administration has discretely notified Congress of its intention to transfer to Uruguay six prisoners from the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba, according to the State Department.

• Monday, July 14th 2014 - 23:26 UTC

  Uruguayans believe government is on the right track, but performance is missing

  

  A majority of Uruguayan believe the current government is on the right course but its performance is not satisfactory, according to a local public opinion poll from FACTUM. In effect seven out of ten agree with the course but the same percentages believe the performance is bad.

• Saturday, July 12th 2014 - 11:45 UTC

  New state of the art bulk terminal in port of Montevideo in support of Nueva Palmira

  

  The Greek ship-owning Laskaridis family is investing in a new 100m dollars state-of-the-art grain and wood pellet terminal in Montevideo, Uruguay, adding to the already considerable Greek shipping presence in the country, reports London's Trade Winds.

• Saturday, July 12th 2014 - 10:13 UTC

  CFK invites regional presidents to the official dinner for Russia's Putin

  

  President Cristina Fernandez, CFK, invited her peers from Bolivia, Uruguay and Venezuela, Evo Morales, Jose Mujica and Nicolas Maduro respectively to participate in a special dinner after her meeting with the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

• Friday, July 11th 2014 - 06:06 UTC

  Majority of Uruguayans disapprove receiving US prisoners from Guantanamo military base

  

  A majority of the Uruguayan population does not approve receiving US prisoners from the US Guantanamo Base, a decision adopted by the government of President Jose Mujica to help support the US government in closing the 9/11 jail for terrorists, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.

• Saturday, July 5th 2014 - 08:48 UTC

  The Economist on Argentina: “The Luis Suarez of international finance”

  

  In its latest edition The Economist writes about Argentina’s debt stand-off, and states this “reflects a teenage attitude that rules are there to be broken”.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  “FIFA leaders are a bunch of old sons of bitches”, said Uruguay president Mujica

  

  FIFA leaders are “a bunch of old sons of bitches” and could have imposed sanctions “but certainly not fascist sanctions” complained Uruguay's president Jose Mujica referring to the suspension suffered by Uruguay's scorer Luis Alberto Suárez who was banned for nine matches and with four months of complete football inactivity.

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Mujica delivers Obama message to Castro: 'let's talk about lifting the trade embargo”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica delivered a message from Barak Obama to Cuba's Raul Castro proposing the opening of dialogue to discuss the blockade, reported the Montevideo media on Thursday. The occasion was the recent G77 summit held in Bolivia.

• Monday, June 16th 2014 - 06:26 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez and Mujica, so close but ever so distant

  

  The lasted chapter of the resurgent diplomatic conflict between Argentina and Uruguay was not addressed during a brief encounter of presidents Cristina Fernandez and Jose Mujica in Bolivia where they attended the G77 plus China summit over the weekend.