Tag: Uruguay

• Wednesday, April 27th 2011 - 15:14 UTC

  Mercosur supports tourism industry with improved data and investment promotion

  

  Mercosur country members with support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Tourism Organization will cooperate in the promotion of tourism focusing on improved and harmonized statistics, strengthening governance and promoting investment in the industry in the region.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2011 - 08:30 UTC

  Uruguay’s flag carrier Pluna orders three more Canadian CRJ900

  

  Canada’s Bombardier Aerospace said Monday it has received another follow-on order from Uruguay’s flag carrier Pluna for three CRJ900 NextGen regional jets, helping the manufacturer's efforts to avoid layoffs.

• Wednesday, April 27th 2011 - 02:10 UTC

  Guerrilla/military events from forty years back poison Uruguayan politics

  

  The release of an alleged unfinished pact negotiated over a decade ago between former urban guerrillas and the military triggered serious controversy in Uruguay in the midst of a political debate to overrule a bill which exempts former officers from going to court for alleged human rights abuses during the military dictatorship (1093/1085).

• Wednesday, April 27th 2011 - 02:02 UTC

  “Eco-fascism” or fundamentalist environmentalism joins political jargon

  

  Campaigns in extreme defence of Nature and the environment can turn into a sort of “eco-fascism” unable to solve the home problems for millions or modify the consumerism paradigm of modern societies, warns a new academia discussion publication in Argentina.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Price of farmland in Uruguay increased on average 13% during 2010

  

  The average price for a hectare of farmland in Uruguay during 2010 increased 13% and reached 2.650 US dollars. The average farmland hectare in 2009 was 2.239 USD.

• Wednesday, April 20th 2011 - 04:44 UTC

  Uruguay’s booming tourism industry needs “a harbour for cruise vessels”

  

  Uruguay is seriously considering the construction of a harbour for the cruise industry and admits infrastructure is already lacking in many areas for the exponential growth of the tourism industry, which in 2011 could be reaching the targets set out for the five year period 2010/2014.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 17:30 UTC

  Uruguay admits to IMF concern over inflation, but rejects capital flow controls

  

  Uruguay’s concern with inflation risks and instruments to ‘mitigate’ its impact was underlined by the region’s representative at the IMF Monetary and Financial Committee meeting in Washington where the IMF and World Bank are holding their spring meetings.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:04 UTC

  Wikileaks reveals Malaysian air force over up of F-5 jet engines which turned up in Uruguay

  

  The Malaysian government failed to inform Washington that two “US-supplied” F-5 fighter jet engines had gone missing since May 22, 2008, despite having at least “three opportunities” to come clean, according to leaked United States diplomatic cables released recently.
  The engines two years later were finally located two years later in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 01:57 UTC

  Uruguay resisted pressure from the Bush administration over ties with Iran

  

  Uruguay resisted pressures from the administration of former US President George W. Bush to reduce ties with Iran. Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro on a Middle East tour made the revelation during a meeting in Teheran with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the official Iranian news agency.

• Friday, April 15th 2011 - 02:13 UTC

  Mujica promises to control the curse of inflation, but ‘there are no magic solutions’

  

  President Jose Mujica promised there will be no ‘uncontrolled inflation in Uruguay’ and although admitting it’s not a simple problem, with no magic solution, there are “sufficient tools’ to address the issue including putting “government spending on a diet”.