Tag: Uruguay

Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:24 UTC
Uruguay offers 'tremendous guarantees' and is a 'decent country' Mujica tells US investors

Uruguay offers “tremendous guarantees” for investors and is “a decent country”, said President Jose Mujica on his second day visit to Washington where he addressed 120 business people at the US Chamber of Commerce during a Tuesday morning work-breakfast.
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:19 UTC
Mujica meets Kerry to implement support at technology and education levels

President Jose Mujica addressing US Secretary of State John Kerry said that Uruguay has a significant deficit in technology and scientific education, and was hopeful that cooperation with the United States would help insisting that the goal is achieving equality and wealth distribution.
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 05:08 UTC
The very good reasons to invest in Uruguay, according to Minister Bergara

Minister of Economy Mario Bergara addressed on Tuesday the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington and said Uruguay was a good place to invest because despite being a small market, it was a good launching pad to develop in the region.
Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 02:54 UTC
Prison inmate taps into the cellular phone of US ambassador in Uruguay

A prisoner in Uruguay tapped into the U.S. ambassador's cell-phone and sent messages to some of her contacts in an attempt to commit a still undisclosed fraud, authorities said Tuesday, although the news was on the media a day before.
Tuesday, May 13th 2014 - 02:38 UTC
Uruguay agrees to take 8 to 12 Guantanamo prisoners; announcement in 'a couple of weeks'

The administration of president Jose Mujica is willing to take eight to twelve of Guantanamo prisoners as refugees in Uruguay and this could happen once the US Senate approves a bill to that purpose, according to sources from the ministerial delegation currently in Washington.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 23:56 UTC
Mujica asks Obama support for scientific knowledge and to combat smoking

In an enjoyable press conference at the White House Uruguay's President Jose Mujica spoke about the increasing importance for people in the US to be bilingual, the dangers of smoking and his interest in having access to U.S. knowledge and professors. President Barrack Obama praised the Uruguayan leader's 'extraordinary' credibility and leadership in democracy and human rights issues.
Monday, May 12th 2014 - 06:38 UTC
Pelé desperate to exorcise Brazil's defeat and loss of the World Cup to Uruguay in 1950

Brazil's Pelé, the legendary attacker believes that his country's national team has the ideal opportunity to exorcise the demons of their 2-1 infamous loss to Uruguay at the Maracana 64 years ago, more precisely 16 July 1950.
Saturday, May 10th 2014 - 08:37 UTC
Mujica meets Obama on Monday with a long agenda of issues to discuss

Uruguayan president Jose Mujica flies on Saturday evening to the United States and on Monday at 10:45 will be walking into the White House for a sixty minutes meeting with President Barack Obama. Mujica will be spending five days in Washington where he has scheduled a long list of meetings and conferences.
Friday, May 9th 2014 - 02:29 UTC
UK disappointed with Uruguay's identification of Falklands as 'a latent threat'

The United Kingdom is disappointed with Uruguay's stance which identifies the Falklands/Malvinas Islands as 'a latent threat' and an element that negatively affects the South Atlantic as “as zone of peace and cooperation”. Ambassador Ben Lyster-Binns said he does not share the statement that the British Overseas Territory of the Falklands are a 'destabilizing element for the region'.
Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:50 UTC
“The open veins of Latin America” is a boring undocumented book, admits his author

Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano said in an interview published on the Argentine newspaper Perfil.com that he considers his 1971 book “The Open Veins of Latin America”, by far his best-known work, to be so bad he will no longer read from it during public appearances.