Tag: Montevideo

• 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.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Another major haul of cocaine in the port of Montevideo: three tons headed for the Canary Islands

  

  Uruguayan authorities this week confiscated over three tons of cocaine from an Africa-bound rice container in the port of Montevideo. The container was originally from Paraguay and was set to stop in Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa, before finally arriving in Cotonou, in southern Benin, the National Customs Directorate said in a statement.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay presidential elections: Lacalle Pou would widely win, according to polls

  

  After a long election campaign, Uruguayans live the last days before the second round of the presidential elections, which will take place on Sunday, November 24. The latest polls before the ballotage positions the nationalist Luis Lacalle Pou as the next president of the country, breaking the hegemony of the left that the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) imposed in the last 15 years.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay expects some 203 cruise calls this 2019/2020 season

  

  Uruguay is expecting 203 calls this coming 2019/20 cruise season, which represents an 11.6% increase over the previous season. The announcement was done by Tourism minister Liliam Kechichian during a conference on the cruise and tourism industry held in the Atlantic seaside of Punta del Este.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay farmers gathered in Montevideo to protest against the government: clashes with the police

  

  Horses, tractors and hundreds of rural producers from all over the country gathered in front of the Uruguay Parliament on Thursday to denounce the problems that the agricultural sector is experiencing and criticize the government for not listening to the proposals of the Un Solo Uruguay (One Uruguay) movement. The political, non-partisan movement brings together producers and actors of the rural environment and the interior of the country.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego protests Falklands display at the coming agricultural show in Uruguay

  

  The extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego has sent letters to the Foreign Ministry and to the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Department expressing concern about a Falkland Islands stand at the British pavilion in the coming international agriculture show in Prado, Montevideo, Uruguay to take place between September 3 and 15.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 16:23 UTC

  Amazon fires: Thousands of people protested in front of Brazilian embassies; Montevideo was not an exception

  

  Thousands of people gathered on Friday in front of Brazilian embassies in different cities around the world and Montevideo was no exception. Several hundred protesters, mostly young people, cut off busy Bulevar Artigas Avenue at the embassy of the Amazonian country, whose government is widely criticized for its environmental policies by countless NGOs around the world.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Italy demands Uruguay to explain how “Milan's cocaine king” escaped from a jail in police HQ

  

  Italy' Home Secretary Matteo Salvini called on Monday the Uruguayan government asking to explain how one of the most wanted criminals in the world, known as Milan's cocaine king, managed to escape from a jail in Montevideo where he was waiting for his extradition to Italy.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:32 UTC

  Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court

  

  Uruguay's government must sell a huge, bronze Nazi eagle, and gun ranging telemeter, salvaged from a sunken World War II era Nazi Germany warship, a court ruled on Friday. The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, that is almost eighty years ago.

• Friday, March 29th 2019 - 18:39 UTC

  Montevideo: The most expensive city and the best place to live in Latin America?

  

  The Uruguayan capital is the most expensive and the best to live in the region. At least that's what the studies of The Economist, which positioned Montevideo behind Mexico City in terms of cost, and the consultancy Mercer, which places the capital at the top of Latin American quality of life ranking, revealed in publications made this month. El País (Madrid) explains that Montevideo has a “crazy decadent charm”. However, why does this phenomenon occur?