Tag: Uruguay

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Uruguay's twice president Tabare Vazquez dies: kilometers of vehicles followed the funeral procession

  

  Two times former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez died early morning Sunday in Montevideo at the age of 80 after suffering from lung cancer and pancreatic metastasis. By early afternoon and following on the family's wishes Vazquez was buried in a private ceremony at the La Teja cemetery, the working neighborhood where he grew up.

• Sunday, June 28th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  EU re-opens borders to visitors from 18 countries,US and Russia not on the list

  

  According to diplomatic sources, EU Committee of Permanent Representatives yesterday approved a draft list of 18 countries, to whom the European Union’s borders will start re-opening on July 1.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 09:27 UTC

  Three Uruguayan marines shot dead; unanimous condemnation from public opinion and political system

  

  The killing of three young Uruguayan marines, with shots in their heads in a non-strategic outpost next to the Montevideo fortress which overlooks the port and city, has shocked public opinion and triggered pledges from government authorities that the culprits will be brought to justice and face trial.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 19:49 UTC

  End of nightmare for Greg Mortimer cruise crew members who begin their long journey back home

  

  Finally a month after passengers were rescued and medically evacuated to Australia from Uruguay, the 89 crew which remained trapped in the coronavirus infested “Greg Mortimer” cruise have started their long return home.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2020 - 09:41 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina presidents discuss the future of Mercosur

  

  Uruguayan president Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou and his Argentine peer, Alberto Fernandez held a half-hour video conference Tuesday mid-morning to address the recent decision by the current Argentine administration to freeze Mercosur free trade negotiations with potential new partners and instead concentrate efforts in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and its sanitary, social, economic and employment consequences.

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 13:36 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” crew members and medical chief officer demand repatriation: “we also have a home country”

  

  The last cruise of “Greg Mortimer” when it left Ushuaia on March 15th was an invitation to disaster, and now “we are asking for a humanitarian corridor to take us, as they did with passengers, to our home countries”, said Mauricio Usme, chief medical officer on board the Aurora Expeditions vessel.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 17:13 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Australian PM thanked Uruguay’s humanitarian action

  

  After the departure from Montevideo of the last medical flight with passengers of the stranded Antarctic cruise Greg Mortimer, the Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, sent a letter to Uruguay’s President, Luis Lacalle Pou, acknowledging the action of his government for its collaboration with Australian citizens.

• 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.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2020 - 10:54 UTC

  Greg Mortimer: Climate delays evacuation of passengers from Australian cruise stranded in Montevideo

  

  The last passengers residing on an Australian ocean liner, anchored off Montevideo for more than two weeks with cases of COVID-19 on board, will be evacuated to the United States by a medical chartered flight, announced on Tuesday the American embassy in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 19:31 UTC

  IMF: Uruguay's economy will fall 3% in 2020; Latin America's, 5.2%

  

  According to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Uruguayan economy will decrease by 3% this 2020. The “great closure” has been how the international body has defined, as the title of its World Economic Outlook, government measures against the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19.