Tag: Salto

• Wednesday, August 13th 2025 - 20:48 UTC

  Uruguay's Salto more expensive than Argentina's Concordia across the border

  

  A study by the Catholic University of Uruguay's (UCU) Economic Observatory on the Salto Campus released this week showed that goods were once again much less expensive in Argentina. However, the difference was not as large as in previous years.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2024 - 10:11 UTC

  Uruguay: International airport at Melo inaugurated

  

  Just a few days after the first domestic flight within Uruguay operated by Paraguayan carrier Paranair between Montevideo and Salto, President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday inaugurated the new international airport at the city of Melo, which showed the Multicolor coalition's commitment to developing and strengthening the country's air connectivity. The terminal's remodeling was part of the operations of the National System of International Airports and had a cost of US$ 12 million.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

  Uruguay: Montevideo-Salto route by a foreign carrier started

  

  Paraguayan carrier Paranair Tuesday performed the maiden flight between the Uruguayan cities of Montevideo and Salto, thus marking the beginning of a new era in commercial aviation with foreign operators serving domestic routes.

• Thursday, April 11th 2024 - 18:58 UTC

  Uruguay: Number of dengue cases on the rise in Salto

  

  Uruguayan health authorities have expressed their concern about the recent increase in the number of cases of dengue fever in the town of Salto, where over 130 detections have been confirmed.

• Thursday, August 10th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Uruguayan orange producers said to be retaining cheap Argentine labor

  

  Agricultural producers in the Salto area have been reported to hire Argentine labor from Concordia just across the border and pay them three times less than they would local workers, Uruguay's National Union of Salaried, Rural, and Related Workers (Unión Nacional de Asalariados, Trabajadores Rurales y Afines - Unatra) denounced.

• Tuesday, September 14th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Uruguayan government warns border municipalities that reopening of border crossings with Argentina will take two months

  

  Uruguayan federal authorities Monday conveyed to mayors of Salto (Andrés Lima), Paysandú (Nicolás Olivera) and Río Negro (Omar Lafluf) that the reopening of land crossings with Argentina will take at least two more months.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:14 UTC

  Uruguay announces on-shore oil “scientific confirmation” but with no commercial certainty

  

  The Uruguayan government announced the discovery of free hydrocarbons liquids in core samples next to source rocks in the northern county of Salto at a depth of 450 metres, which seems to be similar to another discovery two years ago.