Tag: Luis Lacalle Pou

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 22:46 UTC

  Lacalle Pou urges swift action on EU-Mercosur Agreement: “Enough of 25 years of negotiations”

  

  In a strong plea for progress on the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou demanded an end to decades of fruitless negotiations, urging the involved parties to reach an agreement.

• Tuesday, July 11th 2023 - 09:16 UTC

  Water crisis: Uruguay accepts Argentina's help

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday said his country would be accepting Argentina's help to mitigate the water crisis but added that the amount of drinking water offered was nowhere near the needs to match the volumes consumed normally in Montevideo.

• Saturday, July 8th 2023 - 10:59 UTC

  Argentina offers to help Uruguay through the water crisis

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández offered his Uruguayan colleague Luis Lacalle Pou a mobile water treatment plant, supplies, and personnel to assist in the drinking water crisis affecting Montevideo and the Metropolitan area.

• Thursday, July 6th 2023 - 11:59 UTC

  Uruguay taking action to face water crisis: drinking water reserve is empty for Montevideo

  

  Uruguay's Congress Wednesday unanimously approved the Water Emergency Fund to finance access to bottled water among other measures amid an unprecedented shortage of drinking water due to the drought the country is going through.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2023 - 10:55 UTC

  Paraguay, Uruguay urge Mercosur to speak up about situation in Venezuela

  

  Presidents Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay and Mario Abdo Benítez of Paraguay Tuesday spoke against the disenfranchisement in Venezurela of opposition leader María Corina Machado in a move that seems to leave Nicolás Maduro's reelection bid unchallenged.

• Wednesday, July 5th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Mercosur leaders show support to Massa

  

  Presidents Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay, Luis Arce Catacora of Bolivia, Mario Abdo Benítez of Paraguay, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, and Paraguay's President-elect Santiago Peña Tuesday showed strong support to Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa, a likely candidate to become President comes Dec. 10, on the sidelines of the 62nd Mercosur Summit in Puerto Iguazú.

• Tuesday, June 27th 2023 - 05:06 UTC

  Uruguay's Parliament marks 50th anniversary of civic-military Dictatorship

  

  On a cold and foggy night, the Parliament of Uruguay held a commemorative session on Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the civic-military dictatorship that took place in the country from 1973 to 1985.

• Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 11:10 UTC

  Microsoft AI lab inaugurated in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday declared inaugurated Microsoft's first Artificial Intelligence laboratory in Latin America and the fourth in the world. The installations are at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).

• Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  Lacalle Pou decrees water emergency in Montevideo metropolitan area

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday announced new measures to face the water crisis after a cabinet meeting, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, June 19th 2023 - 11:29 UTC

  No dove of peace after all for battleship Graf Spee's eagle

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had a change of mind Sunday regarding the bronze eagle from the Third Reich's battleship Admiral Graf Spee and announced it would not be turned into a dove of peace because “an overwhelming majority did not share” his decision. However, he did not specify what will happen to the piece.