Uruguay

• Saturday, September 26th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Uruguay is winning against Covid-19: This is how

  

  by Luke Taylor, The British Medical Journal – Latin America continues to suffer some of the worst tolls of Covid-19, with over seven million recorded infections accounting for nearly half of all daily deaths. But in the region's Southern Cone there is a clear outlier wedged between Brazil to the east, with over 3.5 million confirmed cases, and Argentina to the west, with half a million.

• Saturday, September 26th 2020 - 08:22 UTC

  Falklands announce COVID-19 relief donation for Uruguayan charity

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has confirmed that, as part of its efforts to contribute to the worldwide Coronavirus relief response, it has made a donation of £5,000 to Centro de Promoción por la Dignidad Humana (CEPRODIH), based in Uruguay.

• Thursday, September 24th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Argentine currency worthless in Uruguay

  

  For the second day running the Argentine Peso was virtually worthless in neighboring Uruguay foreign exchange houses. On Tuesday the Argentine Peso was worth zero, and on Wednesday there was a modest ten Uruguayan cents offered for the battered Argentine currency.

• Wednesday, September 23rd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Brazil buying Uruguayan soybeans to compensate for lowest stockpiles in decades

  

  With stockpiles of oilseed at their lowest in decades, Brazil's Bunge SA is processing soybeans from Paraguay, and now also from Uruguay, which also plants over a million hectares of the oilseed.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina regrets the presence of Falklands' stand at the Prado Rural Show

  

  The display of a stand promoting the disputed “Islas Malvinas” as a British dependency, at the UK pavilion in a Uruguayan agriculture and productions show, was rejected by the Argentine government.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:11 UTC

  Maduro claims special forces captured a “US Spy” next to an oil refining complex

  

  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that a “US spy” was captured near an oil refining complex in the northwest of the country, which is going through a severe fuel shortage crisis.

• Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  UK and Argentine ambassadors present credentials to Uruguayan president Lacalle Pou

  

  Six new ambassadors, including Faye O'Connor from UK, presented their Letters of Accreditation to Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou, during a ceremony at Government House on Thursday.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Despite Merkel’s “serious doubts,” German industry defends the Mercosur-EU agreement

  

  After Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Friday “considerable doubts” over whether to keep backing the European Union’s (EU) trade deal with the Mercosur due to environmental threats that represent the deforestation in Brazil’s Amazonia, the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) responded defending the agreement that was reached last year.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 10:58 UTC

  Falklands' return humanitarian flight: ample media coverage to the cancelling by Argentina

  

  The Argentine government decision to impede a return humanitarian flight from Montevideo to Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands received ample coverage in the Uruguayan and Argentine media.

• Wednesday, August 12th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  “Delighted to be the new ambassador to Uruguay, one of UK's oldest friends”

  

  Mrs. Faye O'Connor who has been appointed as ambassador before the Uruguayan government is in Montevideo and will soon start in office, as the successor of the previous ambassador, Ian Duddy, who has been reappointed to Chile.