Tag: José Mujica

• Monday, January 24th 2011 - 17:45 UTC

  Mujica Controls Internet Use

  

  Uruguayan President Jose Mujica has banned his ministers, officials and general staff from using social networking sites such as Facebook, MSN, Twitter and Skype during work hours. The president said that workers spend too much time using internet and are distracted.

• Thursday, January 20th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

  Brazilian and Uruguayan Foreign Ministers to Meet every Three Months

  

  Brazilian and Uruguayan Foreign Ministers Antonio Patriota and Luis Almagro have agreed to hold bilateral meetings every three months they announced during a press conference in Uruguay. The ministers met to discuss the forthcoming meeting between Uruguayan President Jose Mujica and his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff, scheduled for the first week of February.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 09:07 UTC

  Drought stricken-Uruguay praises Argentina’s “formidable gesture”

  

  President Jose Mujica described as a “formidable gesture” the Argentine government’s decision to facilitate the export of grains and fodder to Uruguay which in under an “agriculture emergency” because of a severe drought that threatens much of the cattle to the north of the country.

• Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Mujica is an ‘emblematic figure and a great asset’ of Uruguay’s foreign policy

  

  President Jose Mujica is an “emblematic” figure at regional level and is one of the great assets of Uruguay’s foreign policy, said Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro on making a review of the first ten months of the administration.

• Saturday, December 18th 2010 - 00:11 UTC

  Mujica calls on other Latinamerican countries to join Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica called on the Mercosur summit for a quick incorporation of Venezuela as full member of the group and said it was time the rest of Latin America moved closer to the integration process.

• Monday, December 13th 2010 - 07:48 UTC

  Montevideo no longer stinky, but what will happen with the radicals?

  

  The dirty, stinking city of Montevideo with over 7.000 tons of several-days uncollected garbage was slowly returning to normal Sunday after the Army was sent out to the streets to clear the mess and fearful municipal workers promised to return to their jobs.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 16:31 UTC

  Moody’s rates Uruguay just below ‘investment grade’ but next step 'distant'

  

  Moody's Investors risk Service raised the sovereign foreign currency credit rating for Mercosur member Uruguay by two notches to Ba1 from Ba3 on Wednesday, leaving it just below investment grade, citing improved debt and fiscal indicators.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 21:25 UTC

  First time ever woman president (for a few days) in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay’s First Lady and speaker of the main Senate group in the ruling coalition Lucia Topolansky will be sworn as interim president on Friday, the first woman-president in the history of the Uruguayan democracy.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 04:26 UTC

  The Economist analyzes Uruguay’s debate on rejecting the “Expiration Law”

  

  Néstor Kirchner Argentina’s late former president first became popular by pushing for the repeal of the amnesties and pardons that prior governments had granted to members of the country’s bloody 1976-83 dictatorship. Argentines cheered when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconstitutional in 2005, and have supported the hundreds of prosecutions for human-rights abuses that have been launched since then.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 21:01 UTC

  Mujica praises Argentina/Uruguay common past; calls for an end to ‘ports’ war’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica underlined the strong common links going back to the birth of Argentina and Uruguay and called for an end to the “ports’ war” (Montevideo vs Buenos Aires) a rivalry born when the two countries were provinces of the colonial Spanish empire.