Tag: Uruguay

• Wednesday, February 10th 2016 - 23:11 UTC

  Montevideo-Stanley, an integrating and necessary air link

  

  By Jaime Trobo (*) - For some time now we have been arguing that Uruguay must strengthen its bonds and contacts with a neighboring territory, in the southern cone, part of our American continent, where families who arrived in our region during the first half of the XIX century live, and with whom those contacts, once very intense, have waned, particularly in the last decades.

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2016 - 05:52 UTC

  Norway's Statoil confirms interest in Uruguay's offshore potential, acquires 15% of exploration block

  

  Norway's Statoil giant announced on Tuesday an agreement with French Total to acquire a 15% working interest in an offshore exploration block in Uruguay's continental shelf. The announcement comes only weeks before Total is preparing to drill its first exploratory well in Uruguayan waters.

• Friday, January 29th 2016 - 04:11 UTC

  Canadian company interested in Uruguay's main (broke) fish industry complex

  

  A Canadian corporation, Cooke Aquaculture is apparently interested in taking over Uruguay's main fish industry company, FRIPUR, which is under administration and liquidation and ended all operations almost six months ago.

• Friday, January 22nd 2016 - 09:46 UTC

  As locals in Punta del Este, “we enjoy a dignified and happy life”

  

  London's The Guardian in an article credited to Oliver Balch argues that Punta del Este, Uruguay's main international summer resort has become a 'golden ghetto' for the rich where the poor can't afford staples or lodging. However Mayor Andrés Jafif openly disagrees with the reporting and argues that ”we might be poor (by European standards) but we are happy, we can live in Punta del Este, we have a good time, we surf, work and bask in beaches”.

• Monday, January 11th 2016 - 13:50 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay praise new spirit in relations and “return to normality”.

  

  Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra said that the meeting between President Mauricio Macri and his Uruguayan counterpart Tabare Vazquez last Thursday symbolized a “return to normality” for bilateral relations between the two neighbours.

• Friday, January 8th 2016 - 11:06 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay will bid to jointly host 2030 World Cup

  

  Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez and Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri agreed on Thursday that their countries will present a joint bid to host the World Cup in 2030, a century after Uruguay was the site of the first tournament.

• Friday, January 8th 2016 - 08:06 UTC

  Macri and Vazquez marked the beginning of a new chapter in bilateral relations

  

  Uruguay and Argentina presidents Tabare Vazquez and Mauricio Macri made on Thursday several announcements referred to bilateral issues indicating relations between the two neighboring countries have effectively improved following years of tension and misunderstandings with the governments of Nestor Kirchner and Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, January 7th 2016 - 09:27 UTC

  Uruguay's 2016 Antarctic campaign takes off; ship to deliver 250 tons of fuel and 40 tons of supplies

  

  Uruguayan navy rescue vessel ROU 26 “Vanguardia” left this week from Montevideo for Antarctica loaded with fuel and provisions for the country's scientific base “General Artigas” at King George Island.

• Thursday, January 7th 2016 - 07:43 UTC

  Vazquez receives Macri: “good relations with Argentina, top priority for Uruguay”

  

  Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez will host on Thursday his Argentine peer Mauricio Macri to address several controversial issues from the bilateral agenda which are pending from the twelve years of the Kirchner couple. According to Uruguayan sources they include trade, River Plate channels and navigation, ports and pulp mills among other issues.

• Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:39 UTC

  Chinese jigger heading for South Atlantic catches fire in Montevideo port

  

  A Chinese jigger flying a convenience flag and ready to leave Montevideo for the South Atlantic fully provisioned suffered a serious fire which apparently started in the engine room and rapidly spread to the rest of the vessel.