Tag: José Mujica

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.
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.