Tag: Sergio Abreu,

• Wednesday, October 8th 2014 - 21:46 UTC

  OAS Observers mission to Peru recommends unifying electoral legislation

  

  The head of the OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Peru, Uruguayan Senator Sergio Abreu underlined the orderly way in which Peruvians went to vote on Sunday's regional and municipal elections, this despite some regrettable episodes of violence in the pre-election phase, Election Day at some polling stations, and at the conclusion of voting in some departments.

• Tuesday, September 30th 2014 - 22:12 UTC

  OAS observers mission readies monitoring of Peru's Sunday regional elections

  

  Uruguay's lawmaker and chief of the Organization of American States Electoral Observation Mission (OAS/EOM) Sergio Abreu arrived on Tuesday in Lima to lead a group of 35 people who will observe the October 5 Peru's regional and municipal elections in 16 departments of the country and the Province of Callao.

• Thursday, September 18th 2014 - 05:51 UTC

  OAS observers for Peru's regional and municipal elections on 5 October

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and Peru´s National Elections Jury (JNE) signed the Agreement on the Electoral Observation Process of the Mission that the OAS will deploy in the country to observe the regional and municipal elections to be held on October 5.

• Thursday, January 16th 2014 - 09:04 UTC

  Open pit mining project in Uruguay questioned in Parliament and by environmentalists

  

  A major open pit mining project in Uruguay to extract and export magnetite (a kind of iron ore) and which the government of President Jose Mujica plans to instrument this month has been exposed to a battery of criticism because the administration refuses to show the terms of the contract and farm groups argue there is no final environment impact assessment study.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 01:10 UTC

  Uruguayan political system coincide in their disappointment with Mercosur ‘in a state of lethargy’

  

  Uruguayan Vice president Danilo Astori and members of the opposition ratified the country’s increasing concern about Mercosur which is “full of obstacles and problems” and is described as “sleepy and in state of lethargy”.