Tag: José Mujica

• Tuesday, May 6th 2014 - 07:55 UTC

  Mujica says Obama has 'his hands and feet tied' so that 'he can't do a thing'

  

  Less than a week before meeting with Barack Obama in Washington, Uruguayan president Jose Mujica described his peer as a 'progressive leader who has his feet and hands tied” and described the fact he made it to the White House, a complete surprise, 'almost unconceivable'.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 09:11 UTC

  Brazil denies financing Uruguay's project of a deep-sea port on the Atlantic

  

  Brazil's economic and social bank, BNDES, denied it was intent in financing Uruguay's deep sea port on the Atlantic coast, as repeated sources in the Uruguayan government have indicated.

• Friday, May 2nd 2014 - 08:28 UTC

  Majority of Uruguayans rate Argentina as 'the less friendly country', says poll

  

  A clear majority of Uruguayans, 61% believe Argentina is the “less friendly” country, according to a March 13/23 public opinion poll, with 1.013 interviews in Montevideo and the main urban locations in the rest of the country.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 08:01 UTC

  Montevideo expected to host Mercosur two in one summits next August

  

  Montevideo will be hosting the much delayed Mercosur (December) summit sometime next August as part of the 'normalization ' process, according to sources from the Uruguayan foreign ministry following revelations that negotiations with that purpose have been ongoing for several months now.

• Monday, April 28th 2014 - 07:54 UTC

  Pope Francis, Bachelet, Maduro and Mujica, in Time's 100 most influential people

  

  Pope Francis, presidents Michelle Bachelet of Chile, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and José Mujica of Uruguay, and Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón are the Latin Americans named by TIME magazine to its list of the “100 most influential people in the world.”

• Friday, April 25th 2014 - 06:11 UTC

  Uruguayans don't approve the marihuana bill, but are prepared to give it a chance, says poll

  

  A majority of Uruguayans (64%) are against the bill that legalizes growing and selling marihuana, but 51% are willing to wait and see if the system works before having it rejected, according to the latest public opinion poll released on Thursday. The bill was passed in parliament last December but only with the support from the ruling coalition.

• Tuesday, April 22nd 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  Mercosur agrees on joint trade proposal to exchange with Europe, announces Mujica

  

  “It took time and effort, but believe it or not” in less than two months time, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay will be presenting their joint tariff reduction proposal to Europe for discussions on an ambitious Mercosur/EU cooperation and trade agreement that has been on the table since 1999, said President Jose Mujica.

• Thursday, April 17th 2014 - 08:16 UTC

  Mujica proposes wife Topolansky as the ruling coalition's vice-president candidate

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica has said that his wife and First Lady, Lucia Topolansky would make “a good Vice-president”. His statement comes ahead of June's primary and October's presidential election when Mujica's five year term will be over and he can't be re-elected immediately.

• Friday, April 4th 2014 - 04:20 UTC

  FIFA confirms Uruguay will be in the World Cup despite domestic football problems

  

  Uruguay's Football Association (AUF) has been suspended by South American soccer body CONMEBOL, a move the AUF said did not affect the national team's participation at the World Cup. The announcement Uruguay would be in Brazil was confirmed by statements from FIFA president Joseph Blatter from Costa Rica.

• Friday, March 21st 2014 - 01:20 UTC

  Mujica confirms Uruguay will accept Guantanamo prisoners as 'refugees'

  

  President Jose Mujica confirmed that Uruguay has agreed with the United States to accept some prisoners held in the much-criticized detention center at the US military base of Guantanamo Bay, but he also cautioned that “everything has a bill”.