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Montevideo, July 12th 2025 - 14:55 UTC

Tag: Uruguayan Army

  • Friday, July 4th 2025 - 16:45 UTC

    Relief operation of DRC Uruguayan blue helmets underway

    Some 200 troops are arriving at Carrasco on a chartered Ethiopian Airlines flight from Rwanda (Pic Ejercito de Uruguay)

    Uruguay is carrying out on Friday a troop relief operation for its United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Approximately 200 Uruguayan soldiers from the Uruguay IV Battalion are arriving at Carrasco International Airport at 6.35 am on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Rwanda. President Yamandú Orsi and Defense Minister Sandra Lazo will welcome them.

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  • Thursday, October 12th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

    Uruguayan troops bound for Golan Heights

    García said the annual relief was scheduled before the war broke out

    A Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Hercules C-130 transport aircraft departed Wednesday carrying some 200 troops to be deployed in the Golan Heights, on the border between Israel and Syria, for a United Nations peacekeeping mission, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:42 UTC

    Argentina and Uruguay potential customers of South Korea's military equipment

    The FA-50 Golden Eagle, a combat jet jointly developed by Korea Aerospace Industries and US Lockheed Martin, is one of Argentine Air Force options

    Located in a part of the world with numerous and evolving security challenges not least North Korea, an aggressive neighbor with nuclear weapons and the largest per capita standing army in the world, South Korea has earned a solid reputation as a high quality military equipment manufacturer for land, air, sea and space, and could in a near future have the Argentine Air Force as one of its clients..

  • Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

    Brazil's Lower House passes bill to donate arms to Uruguay's Army

    In 2019 a delegation of the Uruguayan Army visited the 22nd Self-Propelled Field Artillery Group of the Brazilian Army in Uruguaiana to see the equipment

    Brazilian defense authorities are moving ahead with their plans to donate military equipment to Uruguay consisting of M108 howitzers and Urutu vehicles after the Lower House passed a bill in that regard which has now been sent over to the Senate.

  • Tuesday, April 2nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

    Uruguayan president caught on the wrong foot forced to sack six generals and minister of Defense

    President Vazquez will have three different Army chiefs in less than a month

    Uruguay’s president has been involved in an embarrassing incident which forced him on Monday to remove the commander in chief of the army, the Defense Chief of Staff and four other generals for allegedly covering up that a retired member of the military committed a crime during the 1973-1985 dictatorship.

  • Tuesday, December 6th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

    Uruguayan Army “will not tolerate or cover up” murderers within its ranks

    General Pedro Aguerre and other officers making the announcement

    The Uruguayan Army will not “accept, tolerate or cover up for” murderers and criminals within its ranks, said Commander General Pedro Aguerre speaking to the media about the discovery of the remains of teacher and journalist Julio Castro disappeared after being detained by soldiers in 1977.