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Montevideo, April 16th 2025 - 18:30 UTC

Tag: Luis Lacalle Pou

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 13:54 UTC

    Lacalle Pou tells UN to focus on Venezuela

    The international community should not tolerate Maduro's arbitrariness, Lacalle insisted

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday urged the United Nations General Assembly in New York to pay attention to the Venezuelan crisis sparked by Nicolás Maduro's unsupported victory claims in the July 28 elections. “The time has come to act for Venezuela,” the National Party leader underlined.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 23:24 UTC

    Lacalle Pou has 45% approval, study shows

    Lacalle's chances of running for a second term are yet to be gauged, the survey found

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou was found to have a 45% approval rating according to a study by pollsters Cifra conducted during the month of August and released Thursday in Montevideo. The head of state who is nearing the end of his five-year term also had a 40% negative image, the survey showed.

  • Friday, September 13th 2024 - 09:17 UTC

    Uruguay: Astesiano granted parole

    Astesiano plans to remain in Florida, where he has established a wholesale business

    Former Uruguayan Presidential Chief Bodyguard Alejandro Astesiano has been released from jail given his good behavior and other reasons that led Judge Noelia Gutierrez to understand that his social insertion was favorable. The Prosecutor's Office now has six days to appeal the measure.

  • Monday, September 9th 2024 - 09:19 UTC

    First UN Tourism thematic office for Latin America and the Caribbean inaugurated in Uruguay

    The Observatory is a project jointly developed by UN Tourism and the IDB, and will deploy a pioneering digital tool, which includes a database, “TurismoLex”

    The first thematic office of United Nations Tourism covering the region of Latin America and the Caribbean, and focusing on legal issues was opened in Montevideo, Uruguay.

  • Friday, August 30th 2024 - 09:36 UTC

    Foundation stone laid for Google's data center in Uruguay

    Google's data center will cost US$ 850 million and be ready in 26 months, it was explained

    Representatives of technology giant Google and the Uruguayan Government, including President Luis Lacalle Pou, took part Thursday in the ceremony marking the laying of the foundation stone for the company's future data center in Pando, in the department (province) of Canelones, within Montevideo's Metropolitan Area.

  • Monday, August 26th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Lacalle to speak before the UN about Venezuela's electoral fraud

    If Venezuela's electoral fraud loses centrality, Maduro gets to stay in power, Lacalle argued

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou plans to address the issue of the Venezuelan crisis during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), it was reported this weekend in Montevideo. The National Party leader is convinced that “there is no will [in Caracas] to count the votes.”

  • Friday, August 23rd 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Four LatAm countries insist Venezuela's TSJ consolidated fraud

    Arévalo de León, Boric, Lacalle, and Peña agreed on calling Maduro a dictator

    Four Latin American countries were quick Thursday to voice their disagreement with Venezuela's Supreme Court (TSJ) ratifying incumbent President Nicolás Maduro's alleged win at the July 28 elections despite fraud denunciations by the opposition backed by the Organization of American States (OAS) and a large part of the international community.

  • Monday, July 29th 2024 - 22:41 UTC

    Venezuelan elections impact felt all across the Americas

    Macri underlined all eyes were on Lula now to see how the largest country in the region responded to what he claimed was electoral fraud

    Sunday's elections in Venezuela are rapidly shedding their consequences in other parts of the Americas as reactions from leaders everywhere shape up the geopolitical landscape for the months to come.

  • Friday, July 26th 2024 - 20:00 UTC

    Lacalle Pou stands by Machado ahead of Sunday's elections

    Lacalle praised the courage of the Venezuelan people in this hour

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou held a conversation with Venezuelan leader María Corina Machado in the hours leading to Sunday's presidential elections that could bring Nicolás Maduro's regime to an end.

  • Thursday, July 18th 2024 - 12:46 UTC

    Terrorism is not a crime everywhere, Lacalle Pou decried

    “In this globalized world, a terrorist action on one end has an effect on the other,” stressed Lacalle at the Hilton Hotel in Buenos Aires

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou insisted Wednesday in Buenos Aires that there were still countries where terrorism was not a crime as such. He made those remarks during his appearance at a World Jewish Congress gathering in the Hilton Hotel on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters.