Uruguay

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 10:42 UTC

  Uruguayan town founded by Russian settlers emotionally hit by war

  

  Residents in the Uruguayan town of San Javier are not like any other South American people. At least not when Russia is involved in what seems to be the largest armed conflict so far in the 21st Century. San Javier was founded by Russian immigrants in the early 1900s. For locals, Russia is still their Mother Land.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2022 - 22:54 UTC

  Uruguayan hotels 70-90% full during Carnival weekend

  

  Occupancy at Uruguay's hotels has been between 70 and 90% during Carnival weekend, which represented a recovery from a bad Summer season for the leisure industry.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 20:06 UTC

  Former VP Lucía Topolansky resigns seat on Uruguayan Senate after 22 years

  

  Former Uruguayan Vice President Lucía Topolansy Wednesday turned in her resignation to her seat on the Senate through a letter after 22 years of Parliamentarian services.

• Wednesday, March 2nd 2022 - 09:13 UTC

  Uruguayan President still has 51% of approval after two years

  

  At least 51% of Uruguayans still approved of President Luis Lacalle Pou's management of the country, according to a survey by Opción Consultores published Tuesday.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Uruguayan children skip 2nd vaccination appointment

  

  One out every four Uruguayan children scheduled for the second dose of COVID-19 vaccine has missed their appointments over the past three days, leaving a sizable number of Pfizer units on the brink of expiration, it was reported Monday in Montevideo.

• Monday, February 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguay endorses OAS statement against Russian invasion of Ukraine

  

  Uruguay Sunday chose to join the list of Organization of American States (OAS) countries opposing Russia’s military actions in Ukraine after Friday’s initial decision not to sign the declaration in that regard.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Uruguayan fish processing plants blame unions for the dismantling the industry

  

  The Uruguayan Fishing Industry Chamber, CIPU announced one of its associates had been forced to send 80 workers to unemployment insurance because it run out of fish to process, as a result of the conflict in fishing vessels. The Chamber claimed that in a decade the fishing industry has been cut to half because of the ongoing labor conflicts.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Rescuing juvenile Magellan penguins along the Uruguayan coast

  

  Uruguayan marine life protection organizations have come across an unexpected number of juvenile penguins on their annual transit to less frigid waters in neighboring southern Brazil.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Uruguay's FM condemns use of force in Ukraine and calls for diplomatic channels to be resumed

  

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) of Uruguay called on Thursday for the parties involved in the conflict unleashed after Russia's attack on Ukraine “to return to the path of negotiations, to full compliance with the Minsk agreements” and to “resolve the current conflict of interests through diplomatic channels”.

• Thursday, February 24th 2022 - 22:56 UTC

  Former Uruguayan President finds Putin very much like Hitler

  

  Former two-time President of Uruguay Julio María Sanguinetti (1985-1990 / 1995-2000) Thursday said Russia's actions in Ukraine look “a lot like Hitler's initial invasions.” The Colorado Party leader added that there was “no possible historical justification to relativize the seriousness of the episode.”