Tag: Uruguay

Wednesday, August 20th 2014 - 00:15 UTC
UN accepts extension of Uruguay's continental shelf to 350 miles; first in South America

The United Nations accepted the proposition of the Uruguayan government to extend the Uruguayan territorial seabed from 200 to 350 miles. Uruguay thus becomes the first South American nation to receive the approval of the UN for such request.
Tuesday, August 19th 2014 - 08:57 UTC
Cattle rustling an everyday issue in Uruguay, claim farmers

Cattle rustling in Uruguay has become a daily issue and it's unfair that farmers should be forced to change of activity because “justice is lenient” when and if the perpetrators are caught, claimed the president of Uruguay's Rural Association, ARU, Ruben Echeverria.
Tuesday, August 19th 2014 - 08:51 UTC
Uruguay's 2014/15 wool clip estimated in 30 million kilos

Uruguay's 2014/15 wool clip has been estimated at 30 million kilos, a volume similar to that of 2013/14, according to numbers discussed in a recent meeting of sheep farmers, government and regional officials to address prospects for the industry.
Saturday, August 16th 2014 - 11:21 UTC
All ready in Uruguay to receive Guantanamo prisoners, but public opinion is divided

Uruguay will be receiving very soon six men who have spent more than a decade locked up without charge at the US base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. The prisoners have been offered a refuge in Uruguay, where President José Mujica agreed as a humanitarian gesture to accept men that the U.S. has decided do not pose a threat but cannot return to their homelands.
Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 06:41 UTC
Philip Morris prepared to sue the UK over plain packaging of cigarettes

Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco company, is prepared to sue the British government should it implement a law requiring plain packaging of cigarettes, a document showed.
Wednesday, August 13th 2014 - 05:46 UTC
Larishka sniffs 86.000 dollars from car heading of a ferry to Uruguay

Agents working for Argentina's Federal Public Incomes Administration (AFIP), with a little help from Larishka the dog, found 86,500 dollars hidden by an Argentine who was trying to leave the country for Uruguay.
Tuesday, August 12th 2014 - 06:36 UTC
Uruguay wants Unasur to reach a consensus position of Gaza Strip conflict

Uruguay will ask fellow members at the Unasur summit to be held in Montevideo later in the month to discuss the Gaza Strip situation, said Foreign minister Luis Almagro who next week will be meeting a delegation from the Palestine Authority. Almagro and president Jose Mujica have been questioned for using the words 'genocide' and 'massacre' to describe the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Thursday, August 7th 2014 - 08:02 UTC
Uruguay inflation hard to break: in July it remained stubbornly above 9%

Inflation in Uruguay remains hard to break having reached 6.17% in the first seven months of the year, the highest since 2007 (6.38%) and over 9% in the last twelve months well ahead of the government's target of 3% to 7%, according to the latest figures from the stats office, INE.
Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 08:18 UTC
Israel disturbed with Mujica's use of 'genocide' to describe the situation in Gaza

Israel is disappointed and concerned with Uruguayan president Jose Mujica statement that described the Israeli offensive in Gaza as’genocide’, pointed out Jerusalem's new ambassador to Montevideo, Nina Ben-Ami. “These are not words to be used by a friend; we're friendly countries going through a difficult moment”.
Tuesday, August 5th 2014 - 06:21 UTC
IDB finances photovoltaic solar energy project for private sector in Uruguay

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a 40.9 million dollars loan from its ordinary capital and 25 million from the Canada Climate Fund, which is administered by the Bank, to finance the private sector in Uruguay in the construction, operation and maintenance of a photovoltaic solar energy plant and its related facilities.