Tag: Luis Alberto Heber

• Wednesday, February 8th 2023 - 23:46 UTC

  Crisis in Uruguayan Police after Lacalle Pou dismissed the entire leadership amid corruption cases

  

  The removal of the police leadership by order of the President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, generated the biggest crisis in this force so far in this government. The head of state replaced the National Police Director, Diego Fernández, and the Executive Subdirector of Police, Jorge Berriel, it was reported late Tuesday.

• Monday, January 30th 2023 - 09:52 UTC

  Positive security balance for Uruguay during summer season, Minister claims

  

  Uruguay's Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber, who gained notoriety last week when he had a gun stolen from his home, said security during the summer season has yielded a positive balance.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 22:37 UTC

  Uruguay, Brazil agree to deepen fight against organized crime along the border

  

  Authorities from Uruguay and Brazil defense authorities have held bilateral meetings towards coordinating joint efforts along the border between the two countries to carry out operations against drug trafficking and organized crime in the area.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Punta del Este shopping mall gripped by devastating fire

  

  A shopping mall in the most exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este caught fire Saturday in what Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber dubbed “a disgrace.”

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 20:20 UTC

  Uruguay faces a wave of violence that could mean a homicide record – government blames drug trafficking

  

  Uruguay has been experiencing dark hours in terms of homicides in recent days. In the first quarter of this year, there were 96 homicides in a country of some 3.5 million inhabitants, 33% more than in the same period of 2021 and a figure that marks a trend that, if maintained, would mean an annual homicide record in the southern country.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 18:20 UTC

  Uruguay launches literacy plan for prison inmates

  

  The Government of Uruguay Tuesday launched an education plan to reverse the large number of prison inmates who are unable to read and write in this day and age, Interior Minister Luis Heber announced.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2021 - 15:02 UTC

  Lacalle Pou picks wingman Heber to become Uruguay's new Interior Minister

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has chosen Luis Alberto Heber to become the new Minister of the Interior following the death of Jorge Larrañaga last week, it was announced.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  ‘Artigas never wanted to be Argentine; he was too smart for that’, a barrage of twits tell Cristina Fernandez

  

  Never in his life did Artigas (Uruguay’s liberator from Spain and Portugal 200 years ago) wanted to be an Argentine, and since then all Uruguayans feel the same way, was the spirit of the barrage of twits from Uruguayan opposition leaders condemning President Cristina Fernandez interpretation of history events.

• Monday, February 6th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  Uruguayan president downplays the impact of Argentine imports’ restrictions

  

  The new trade barriers enforced by the Argentine government are “insignificant, nothing to worry about,” Uruguayan president José Mujíca said to a Montevideo newspaper insisting that the best path is ‘dialogue’ dismounting each obstacle ‘step by step’.