Tag: José Mujica

Monday, December 5th 2011 - 06:09 UTC
Mujica dressed with a Venezuelan Army jacket triggers a barrage of criticisms

A major controversy exploded in Uruguay when President Jose Mujica was pictured by international news agencies, during the CELAC meeting in Caracas, wearing a green jacket from the Venezuelan Army.
Friday, November 25th 2011 - 06:50 UTC
“It’s very tough living inside Mercosur”, admits Uruguayan head of the Industries chamber

Uruguay’s president of the Chamber of Industries, (CIU) Washington Burghi said that relations with Mercosur partners are becoming ever so complicated and if these problems are not addressed “we will be in serious trouble because the whole world is going through tough situations”.
Monday, November 21st 2011 - 07:47 UTC
Mujica says Brazil supports Uruguay in the fiscal haven controversy with G20

President Jose Mujica said on Sunday that his peer from Brazil Dilma Rousseff will make a strong declaration in support of Uruguay when the next G20 summit to counter French President Nicholas Sarkozy recent statements in Cannes describing one of Mercosur junior members as a “fiscal haven”
Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 18:54 UTC
Uruguay is Mexico’s strategic partner in Mercosur says President Calderon

The Mexican president underlined the strategic importance of Uruguay since it is the only Mercosur member that has a free trade agreement with Mexico, thus making it the ‘strategic partner’ of Mexico in Mercosur.
Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 17:41 UTC
G20 president says Uruguay is no ‘fiscal haven’ and praises transparency commitment

Uruguay received a huge political boost from Mexico (the same it was denied from its Mercosur partners under influence from Argentina) in its dispute with the recent G20 summit which through spokesperson French president Nicholas Sarkozy described Uruguay as a ‘fiscal haven’.
Thursday, November 17th 2011 - 07:08 UTC
Mercosur is not moving but Uruguay “will not stay put licking its wounds”

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica said that Mercosur “is not moving forward or backwards” but is certainly working much better than the European Union where old experienced nations “made a mess of it”. Nevertheless, Uruguay will not stay put “licking its wounds”, it will look for other trade links.
Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 16:44 UTC
President Mujica in Mexico to boost trade and relations with G20

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica arrived Tuesday in Mexico for a two day visit to promote bilateral trade and to address with his host Felipe Calderon issues related to recent discrepancies with the G20 that described Uruguay and Panama as “fiscal havens”.
Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:41 UTC
Mujica says Argentina was not involved in the “tax haven” claim incident

Uruguay’s President, José Mujica said on Monday that Argentina had nothing to do with the comment made by France’s leader Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Uruguay was a “tax haven.”
Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 23:16 UTC
Uruguay passes bill eliminating prescription of crimes against humanity

The Uruguayan Congress passed early Thursday a law that eliminates the effects of the 1986 Amnesty Law (also known as Expiry Law), which protected police and military personnel from being prosecuted for human rights violations, and repeals a statute of limitations that would have prevented victims from filing criminal complaints as of 1 November.
Friday, October 21st 2011 - 08:35 UTC
In Uruguay we have learnt to bury the old economic paradigms, says Mujica

Uruguay’s strategy is to attract foreign private investors and offer the necessary guarantees to develop their business, said President Jose Mujica in a brief summary of his ten day European visit of four countries and the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels.