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Montevideo, May 2nd 2024 - 18:50 UTC

Tag: Luis Lacalle Pou

  • Tuesday, March 23rd 2021 - 10:42 UTC

    Uruguayan government to debate measures amid record Covid-19 cases and political pressures

    President Luis Lacalle Pou called this Tuesday to an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers to evaluate new measures to stop the exponential growth of coronavirus cases

    The Uruguayan government will discuss this Tuesday a radical reduction of mobility in the midst of a new wave of Covid-19 cases. This Monday, the highest number of new cases was detected, with almost 2,700 confirmed cases and a positivity rate of 18%, and the community spread of the Brazillian P-1 variant of the virus was confirmed.

  • Monday, March 22nd 2021 - 13:44 UTC

    Covid-19: Health situation in Uruguay worsens amid successful vaccination campaign

    The National Academy of Medicine warned that Uruguay “is heading towards an epidemiological situation without control” (Photo: Sebastián Astorga)

    Although a few weeks ago we talked about Uruguay as a milestone in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, with very few daily cases and a lower mortality rate than any other country in the region, the country of 3.5 million inhabitants surpassed this Sunday the 13 thousand active cases after several record days of daily positives. Scientific and medical societies are demanding measures to stop the spread of the virus despite the fact that 1 out of 10 Uruguayans have already received the first dose of the vaccine – Pfizer or Coronavac – against the disease.

  • Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

    Uruguay: Pepe Mujica says the pandemic helped Lacalle Pou’s government

    Former president Pepe Mujica (2010-2015) said that Uruguay “had the opportunity to start vaccinating three months ago and we let it pass because we were confident or for ideological reasons”

    The former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica criticized the government of Luis Lacalle Pou and assured that the Covid-19 pandemic “helped” to improve his image. ”The pandemic is white (in reference to the color of the ruling party)“ and ”brought a big help“ to the government, said the former president in a radial interview on Wednesday. ”He has no responsibility, but he positioned himself well in the situation and knew how to take advantage of it”, he assured.

  • Wednesday, March 3rd 2021 - 09:56 UTC

    Uruguayan president addresses Congress and anticipates a year of structural reforms

    “Our government is profoundly committed to transparency and keeping all branches of government and the people informed of events”

    Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou addressed Congress on Tuesday to report on his first year and one day in office, underlining the extraordinary 2020 pandemic year which surprised the world, and Uruguay, but he also made several announcements referred to future activities and investments.

  • Saturday, February 27th 2021 - 18:21 UTC

    Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19

    The country will “finish the vaccination process much faster than others that started the process 20 days earlier,” Secretary of the Presidency said.

    Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the day to begin distributing the vaccines, which will begin to be administered on Monday, March 1, to a small group of essential workers in different parts of the capital and the interior of the country.

  • Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 - 09:56 UTC

    Uruguay starts inoculation campaign March first with Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines

    President Lacalle Pou during the conference next to Health minister Daniel Salinas and Alvaro Delgado, the Presidency's secretary

    Uruguay will be receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines next Thursday evening and the official inoculation campaign will begin on Monday March first. Over the weekend those in charge of vaccination will be the first to receive the shots, according to president Luis Lacalle Pou.

  • Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

    Uruguay and Paraguay presidents meet to address Mercosur issues in an open agenda

    Paraguayan president Mario Abdo Benitez and foreign minister Euclides Acevedo arrived in Punta del Este late Tuesday evening

    Uruguay and Paraguay presidents, Luis Lacalle Pou and Mario Abdo Benítez will be holding an “open agenda” meeting on Wednesday in the Uruguayan international seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the Paraguayan leader arrived late Tuesday.

  • Thursday, February 4th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

    Lacalle Pou agreed with Bolsonaro in Brasilia to make Mercosur more flexible

    “I am leaving for Uruguay very satisfied, very happy”, said Lacalle Pou, in a press conference, after a meeting with Bolsonaro in Brasilia.

    The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, traveled overseas for the first time to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in a meeting in which they discussed the idea of “making Mercosur more flexible” and the possibility of a face-to-face summit with the leaders of Argentina and Paraguay at the end of March.

  • Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:40 UTC

    Uruguayan president will share lunch with Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Wednesday

    Lacalle Pou and foreign minister Francisco Bustillo will be meeting Jair Bolsonaro and Eduardo Araújo in the Brazilian capital

    Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou will be flying to Brasilia on Wednesday to share an informal lunch with his peer Jair Bolsonaro, his first overseas trip since taking office, but also a clear balancing act of the country's foreign policy regarding its two huge neighbors.

  • Thursday, January 28th 2021 - 09:59 UTC

    Uruguay will partially reopen its borders as of February

    The president, at the press media next to the Executive's Secretary Alvaro Delgado and Public Health minister Daniel Salinas. Photo: Executive

    Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou announced on Wednesday the partial lifting of the borders' total closure which had been established last December 20, but all other measures that had been announced on that date remain in full compliance.