Tag: José Mujica

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 00:38 UTC

  Next US ambassador to Uruguay could be a New Mexico sheep farmer

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that the future US ambassador in Montevideo could “probably” be Edward Avalos, currently Under Secretary for trade and regulatory programs from the US Department of Agriculture.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:24 UTC

  Uruguay offers 'tremendous guarantees' and is a 'decent country' Mujica tells US investors

  

  Uruguay offers “tremendous guarantees” for investors and is “a decent country”, said President Jose Mujica on his second day visit to Washington where he addressed 120 business people at the US Chamber of Commerce during a Tuesday morning work-breakfast.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:19 UTC

  Mujica meets Kerry to implement support at technology and education levels

  

  President Jose Mujica addressing US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Uruguay has a significant deficit in technology and scientific education, and was hopeful that cooperation with the United States would help insisting that the goal is achieving equality and wealth distribution.

• Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC

  Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

  

  The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.

• Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC

  Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

  

  In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.

• Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC

  Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.

• 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.