Tag: Montevideo

Saturday, September 26th 2020 - 08:57 UTC
Uruguay is winning against Covid-19: This is how

by Luke Taylor, The British Medical Journal – Latin America continues to suffer some of the worst tolls of Covid-19, with over seven million recorded infections accounting for nearly half of all daily deaths. But in the region's Southern Cone there is a clear outlier wedged between Brazil to the east, with over 3.5 million confirmed cases, and Argentina to the west, with half a million.
Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:55 UTC
UK and Argentine ambassadors present credentials to Uruguayan president Lacalle Pou

Six new ambassadors, including Faye O'Connor from UK, presented their Letters of Accreditation to Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou, during a ceremony at Government House on Thursday.
Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - 09:08 UTC
Korean trawler catches fire in Montevideo port and is towed out to the bay

A Korean flagged trawler on Tuesday noon was towed away from Montevideo port docks to the bay after it caught fire fearing explosion threats from fuel and ammonia cylinders tanks.
Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC
End of “Greg Mortimer” cruise ordeal: last fifteen passengers flying to US and UK

The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.
Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:58 UTC
Australian cruise vessel stranded in Montevideo; following medical checks, healthy passengers could be released

Uruguay's foreign and public health ministers have said that none of the over 200 people on board the cruise vessel Greg Mortimer will be allowed to disembark in Montevideo for the moment since several passengers and crew members seem to have coronavirus symptoms.
Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Argentine president Fernandez announces meeting with his Uruguayan peer Lacalle Pou

Argentine president Alberto Fernandez held a very positive phone conversation on Wednesday with Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou during which they analyzed the bilateral relation and the regional integration agenda.
Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:40 UTC
Argentina pressing Uruguay on Falklands' RAF flights landing in Carrasco

Argentina is again putting pressure on Uruguay, this time on the incoming government which takes office next March first, insisting no UK military aircraft linked to the Falkland Islands be allowed to land in the country's airports and Falklands should not be treated as state with which Uruguay has extensive trade and business exchanges.
Thursday, February 13th 2020 - 10:10 UTC
Bolsonaro-Alberto Fernandez summit and “cordial embrace” in Montevideo next March first

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed a meeting with his Argentine peer Alberto Fernandez on March first in Montevideo when Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou takes office. The information was announced by Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá, after meeting president Bolsonaro for fifty minutes at his office in Brasilia.
Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:49 UTC
Uruguayan navy seizes record haul of 4.4 tons of cocaine in the port of Montevideo

Uruguayan authorities seized a record haul of 4.4 tons of cocaine at the port of Montevideo in what the navy described on Friday as “the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country's history.”
Saturday, November 30th 2019 - 07:20 UTC
Uruguay expects some 200 cruise calls this 2019/20 season

Uruguay is expecting some 200 cruise calls this 2019/20 season, which is 30% higher than in 2018/19, while Montevideo has become an exchange port for incoming and outgoing cruise passengers, given its good services and connectivity, announced Tourism minister Liliam Kechichian during the official launching of the current season.