Tag: Uruguay

• Wednesday, December 12th 2012 - 18:40 UTC

  Uruguay legalizes same sex marriage and rights by overwhelming majority

  

  Uruguay’s Lower House voted 81 in 87 to legalize same sex marriage on Wednesday, approving a single law for both heterosexuals and homosexuals regulating all kinds of family issues, from divorce to adoption to in-vitro fertilization and how parents can name their children.

• Saturday, December 8th 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  Bolivia signs Mercosur incorporation protocol and becomes sixth member

  

  Bolivian president Evo Morales subscribed on Friday the Mercosur incorporation protocol which makes it the sixth member of the regional group. The event took place in Brasilia during the Mercosur summit hosted by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 21:08 UTC

  Uruguay exporters complain about competitiveness and cheap dollar problems

  

  President Jose Mujica admitted on Tuesday before the country’s Exporters Union lobby that Uruguay has competitiveness problems and it is ‘not an easy challenge’ but nevertheless 2012 will again be a record year for overseas sales.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 19:15 UTC

  Inflation in Uruguay remains out of target despite government efforts

  

  Uruguay’s inflation in November was over 9% in the last twelve months despite government efforts to contain it by agreeing a price freeze with leading supermarkets and having public utilities’ rates unchanged.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 17:09 UTC

  Mercosur, except for Uruguay quite a “corrupt” neighbourhood, according to TI

  

  Mercosur and Unasur democracies did not rank very encouragingly in the latest Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012 with all countries, except Chile and Uruguay, ranking below the score of 50, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean).

• Wednesday, December 5th 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Dealing with Argentina “one of the most painful problems” admits President Mujica

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica confessed that dealing with neighbouring Argentina is “one of the most painful problems” faced by his administration given the weight of the Argentine economy.

• Monday, December 3rd 2012 - 20:49 UTC

  Uruguay budget deficit trebles in twelve months and soars to 3% of GDP

  

  Uruguay’s budget deficit soared to 3% of GDP in the twelve months to the end of October, the highest since November 2003, (3.1%) when the country was recovering from the financial crisis which spilt over from Argentina. The deficit also exposes Uruguay’s precarious power generating situation.

• Friday, November 23rd 2012 - 23:20 UTC

  Mujica calls for prudence with salaries: “look at what is happening on the other side (Argentina)”

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica appealed to workers and entrepreneurs to avoid an escalation of salaries and prices which leads “to all sort of fiddling” as is happening in Argentina.

• Tuesday, November 20th 2012 - 01:40 UTC

  Uruguay admits inflation is “decisively much higher” than expected

  

  Inflation is a priority and is “decisively much higher than what authorities and public opinion would like” admitted Mario Bergara, Uruguay’s Central bank president during the opening on Monday of a two-day annual economic conference.

• Thursday, November 15th 2012 - 19:00 UTC

  Uruguayan industry criticizes imports policy, labour costs and Mercosur

  

  Uruguay’ Chamber of Industries, CIU, criticized the ‘indiscriminate’ influx of foreign goods, labour costs and Mercosur, and called on government to change the focus of its policies towards manufacturing underscoring that the domestic market represents 55% of industries’ GDP.