Tag: Uruguay

• Saturday, November 2nd 2013 - 21:03 UTC

  Mujica says Argentina's attitude in Mercosur is 'insular' and shatters integration

  

  Uruguay President José “Pepe” Mujica questioned Argentina’s recent decision to stop freight transfers at ports belonging to Mercosur countries Buenos Aires has no maritime agreements with. Mujica blasted an “insular” position that “shatters” regional integration.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:59 UTC

  Argentina will again be 'a normal country', when Cristina Fernandez is out of the political stage

  

  Uruguayan former president Jorge Batlle (2000/2005) said on Facebook that Argentina will again “be a normal country” when President Cristina Fernandez “disappears from the political stage”. And when this happens “the Argentines are going to be happier and as a consequence so will we”.

• Friday, November 1st 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  Malvinas' flagged vessels ideological solidarity with Argentina costs Uruguay lost jobs and income

  

  To the loss of transshipments from Argentina, estimated in 100 million dollars a year by Montevideo port authorities, must be added the 60 million dollars following the ban on Falklands' flagged vessels from operating in Uruguay, claimed Mario Baubeta, president of Uruguay's Navigation Centre.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 04:05 UTC

  Shell aggressively quickening offshore oil exploration pace in Uruguay

  

  Oil exploration in Uruguay picked up strongly with the arrival of Anglo-Dutch Shell which took over Brazil's Petrobras participation in two offshore blocs according to the country's oil company Ancap Exploration and Production manager Hector de Santa Ana.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2013 - 07:33 UTC

  Botnia/UPM conflict: Argentina retaliates against Uruguay with trade and port measures

  

  Argentina has made public its first retaliation against Uruguay over the Botnia/UPM pulp mill controversy and has banned Argentine exports from being trucked to Montevideo for shipment overseas. The resolution was published Tuesday in the Official Gazette and invokes maritime transport agreements in the framework of Mercosur.

• Tuesday, October 29th 2013 - 05:58 UTC

  Brazilian ex-president to be exhumed to determine if he was poisoned by the military regime

  

  The remains of ex-president Joao Goulart will be exhumed next month to determine whether he was poisoned during his exile in Argentina in the 1970s, Brazil announced on Monday.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2013 - 00:34 UTC

  Uruguay: President Mujica popularity and approval stand at 51% and 45%, opinion poll shows

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica popularity reached 51% in October while approval of his performance stood at 45%, according to the latest opinion poll released this week and a year ahead of national elections. In Uruguay there is no re-election

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 19:32 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil agree Mercosur will make a joint trade proposal to EU next December

  

  Uruguay and Brazil have concluded their proposals to present to the European Union and are waiting for Argentina and Paraguay, in the framework of current negotiations, delayed for years, to reach a free trade and cooperation agreement between the two blocs.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 16:34 UTC

  Cartes and Mujica will address Mercosur and port facilities in Friday's meeting in Montevideo

  

  Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes will be visiting Uruguay next 25 October to meet with his peer Jose Mujica and a month later will be flying to the Vatican to visit Pope Francis, November 25, announced Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga.

• Monday, October 21st 2013 - 22:14 UTC

  Cruise on world tour calls in Uruguay; season opens officially November

  

  Even when Uruguay's official cruise season is scheduled for November this last Sunday Montevideo received “Costa Neo Romantica” a vessel on a world tour. She was expected to call at the Atlantic seaside resort of Punta del Este, but adverse weather conditions cancelled the visit.