Uruguay

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 06:17 UTC

  Uruguay best place to live in Latin America, says Legatum Institute

  

  Uruguay is the best place to live in Latin America according to the Legatum Institute fourth year index on quality of life conditions which ranks 110 countries world wide representing 90% of world population and 97% of the global economy.

• Thursday, November 10th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Uruguay claims Brazilian support in “fiscal haven” controversy with Sarkozy

  

  A top Uruguayan official said the country has the support of Brazil regarding the controversy triggered when President Nicholas Sarkozy as host and ‘rapporteur’ of the recent G20 summit named Uruguay in the list of the world’s most notorious fiscal havens.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:41 UTC

  Mujica says Argentina was not involved in the “tax haven” claim incident

  

  Uruguay’s President, José Mujica said on Monday that Argentina had nothing to do with the comment made by France’s leader Nicolas Sarkozy indicating that Uruguay was a “tax haven.”

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 08:20 UTC

  White House officially denies evidence of extraterrestrials contacting humans

  

  The White House has said it has no evidence that extraterrestrials have ever tried to contact humans. In a blow to conspiracy theorists everywhere, a senior Barack Obama administration official also says there is also no credible information to suggest evidence of alien life is being kept from the public.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2011 - 07:48 UTC

  French ambassador defends Sarkozy’s statements claiming Uruguay is a fiscal haven

  

  The French ambassador in Montevideo, Jean Christophe Potton said that when President Nicholas Sarkozy named Uruguay and ten other countries as ‘fiscal havens’, which could be isolated from the International community, he was speaking in representation of the G20 countries summit in Cannes.

• Monday, November 7th 2011 - 05:13 UTC

  Uruguayan opposition accuses Argentina of having Sarkozy label the country a “tax haven”

  

  Opposition leaders in Uruguay accused Argentina of “exerting pressure inside the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)” so the neighbouring country would be labelled a “tax haven,” the Montevideo media said.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2011 - 14:44 UTC

  Chile, Argentina and Uruguay with highest human development index in Latam

  

  Chile, Argentina and Uruguay have the highest standards of living in Latin America according the latest report from the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI).

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 05:10 UTC

  The Euro crisis plays in favour of advancing EU/Mercosur trade negotiations

  

  The worsening of the world crisis is a factor that plays in favour of advancing negotiations for the European Union and Mercosur cooperation agreement and strategic association, said Socialist Euro Deputy Luis Yañez from Spain currently visiting Montevideo.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  IDB loan to promote tourism destinations and activities along the River Uruguay

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a loan for 5 million dollars to promote tourism in six Uruguayan departments with the aim of boosting foreign exchange earnings, income, and employment.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 23:16 UTC

  Uruguay passes bill eliminating prescription of crimes against humanity

  

  The Uruguayan Congress passed early Thursday a law that eliminates the effects of the 1986 Amnesty Law (also known as Expiry Law), which protected police and military personnel from being prosecuted for human rights violations, and repeals a statute of limitations that would have prevented victims from filing criminal complaints as of 1 November.