Tag: Uruguay

Monday, July 15th 2013 - 21:15 UTC
Former Brazilian official blasts his country policy towards Paraguay as ‘arbitrary, illegal and incompetent”

Brazil’s former Foreign minister Celso Lafer said that Paraguay was ‘arbitrarily’ excluded from Mercosur with a sanction that is not in conformity with the group’s charter and warned Brazil is losing international credibility in supporting Paraguay’s suspension because it is distancing itself from International law.
Monday, July 15th 2013 - 16:22 UTC
Uruguay files in SEC plans to sell up to 5 billion dollars in securities

Uruguay filed a shelf registration with the US Securities and Exchange committee to sell up to 5 billion in US denominated securities. Economy minister Fernando Lorenzo said the filing will allow the government to issue debt when it is convenient for the country and market conditions are favourable.
Friday, July 12th 2013 - 20:17 UTC
Belonging to Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance is ‘not incompatible’ says Uruguay

Uruguay Vice-president Danilo Astori said that belonging to Mercosur and the Alliance of the Pacific is ‘not incompatible’ and called on the ‘powerful members’ of Mercosur to support an agreement with the Pacific Alliance of which Uruguay and Paraguay are already observers.
Friday, July 12th 2013 - 08:16 UTC
Mercosur will lift Paraguay’s suspension next August 15, announced Uruguay

This coming August 15, Mercosur will lift the suspension on Paraguay's participations that has held since June 29 2012, Uruguay Minister Luis Almagro announced on Thursday during a meeting of the group’s foreign ministers in Montevideo.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:26 UTC
Summit in Montevideo could further expose the fragility of a Mercosur turned political

President-elect Horacio Cartes will not make any comments on the ongoing dispute of Paraguay with Mercosur until after the group’s summit in Uruguay next Friday, when official decisions on the subject are expected to be made public. However for both sides any decision will most probably be challenging and ratify that Mercosur has become a political group far from its original trade and investment purposes.
Thursday, July 11th 2013 - 07:14 UTC
After twenty years of negotiations US opens its market to Uruguayan citrus

After almost twenty years of negotiations United States confirmed the opening of its market to citrus from Uruguay, which will become effective next 9 August when certain coordination and logistics tasks are coordinated by both countries.
Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 06:09 UTC
Mercosur and Paraguay on collision course; Uruguay insists Venezuela will hold the chair of the group

Paraguay reiterated on Tuesday that if Venezuela assumes as pro termpore chair of Mercosur, it is not interested in returning to the group and discarded Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro pledge to ensure Paraguay is fully reincorporated.
Wednesday, July 10th 2013 - 05:45 UTC
Brazil decides exhumation of ex-president Goulart, believed to have been poisoned by the military regime

Brazilian authorities decided the exhumation of former president Joao Goulart remains to determine whether he was poisoned as part of the Plan Condor implemented by the Southern Cone military regimes to eliminate opponents during the seventies and eighties.
Friday, July 5th 2013 - 00:50 UTC
FIFA wants 2030 World Cup centenary jointly staged by Uruguay and Argentina

FIFA wants the centenary World Cup in 2030 to be jointly staged by Uruguay and Argentina, who met in the final of the inaugural tournament, Argentine FA (AFA) president Julio Grondona said on Thursday.
Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:31 UTC
‘Artigas never wanted to be Argentine; he was too smart for that’, a barrage of twits tell Cristina Fernandez

Never in his life did Artigas (Uruguay’s liberator from Spain and Portugal 200 years ago) wanted to be an Argentine, and since then all Uruguayans feel the same way, was the spirit of the barrage of twits from Uruguayan opposition leaders condemning President Cristina Fernandez interpretation of history events.