Tag: José Mujica

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 02:13 UTC

  Mujica promises to control the curse of inflation, but ‘there are no magic solutions’

  

  President Jose Mujica promised there will be no ‘uncontrolled inflation in Uruguay’ and although admitting it’s not a simple problem, with no magic solution, there are “sufficient tools’ to address the issue including putting “government spending on a diet”.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 00:12 UTC

  “Other blocks demand too much from Mercosur and offer too little”

  

  Several Mercosur negotiations with other blocks have failed because “they ask too much and offer too little” said Samuel Pinheiro recently appointed Mercosur High Representative and who is holding a round of meetings with member countries’ leaders.

• Thursday, April 14th 2011 - 02:30 UTC

  Uruguay Senate annuls amnesty bill benefiting the military but triggers further controversy

  

  A closely divided Senate has passed legislation to overturn an amnesty for human rights crimes committed by the military and security forces during Uruguay's 1973-85 dictatorship, overruling voters who in two referendums upheld the law in 1989 and 2009. The decision triggered strong controversy in the Uruguayan political system.

• Monday, April 11th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Mujica strongly lobbies for Venezuela’s full incorporation to Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica strongly supported the incorporation of Venezuela as full member of Mercosur from a Sunday column published in one of Brazil’s most influential newspapers, Folha de Sao Paulo.

• Monday, April 4th 2011 - 07:17 UTC

  Mujica promises businessmen economic policy to remain on course and reliable

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica ratified this weekend before 1.200 businesspeople that his administration will keep the course and ‘reliability’ of the current economic policy, although this will not impede “changes that may surface consequences of the moment”.

• Friday, April 1st 2011 - 01:54 UTC

  Mujica: we need Venezuela in Mercosur “to help balance the group”

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica promised his peer Hugo Chavez he would press strongly for Venezuela’s incorporation as full member of Mercosur because this will help balance the group.

• Thursday, March 31st 2011 - 07:38 UTC

  Chavez blasts alliance bombing Libya; signs agreements with Uruguay

  

  Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday during a press conference in Montevideo that the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi “is doing what has to be done, resisting an imperial aggression” and added that “it’s not anticipated that he has plans to leave Libya”.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2011 - 05:17 UTC

  Uruguay’s farmland price jumped eight times from 2002 to 2010

  

  The number of farmland transactions and the price per hectare were up in Uruguay during 2010 according to a release from Uruguay’s Agriculture and Livestock Ministry Statistics Department, DIEA.

• Monday, March 28th 2011 - 01:27 UTC

  Lula da Silva says Latin America’s left is a model for developed countries

  

  Brazilian former president Lula da Silva underlined the significance of Latin America’s left and its responsibility as a model for developed countries in crisis, during a political rally in Montevideo to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Uruguayan ruling coalition, Broad Front.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 16:50 UTC

  Uruguay celebrates 40 years of the ruling coalition with Lula da Silva

  

  Uruguay’s ruling coalition is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with a massive political rally in downtown Montevideo where the main speaker will be the former Brazilian president Lula da Silva.