Uruguay

• Saturday, June 26th 2010 - 04:55 UTC

  Leading wind farm company begins operations in Uruguay

  

  An Argentine multinational company dedicated to providing solutions in the field of alternative energy sources will open a Wind Farm Service Centre in Uruguay. IMPSA is considered a leader in wind power investment and generation in Latinamerica.

• Friday, June 25th 2010 - 05:34 UTC

  Timerman begins round of regional visits next Tuesday in Montevideo

  

  Argentina’s newly appointed Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman begins next Tuesday a round of regional contacts which will take him to Uruguay, Brazil and Chile.

• Thursday, June 24th 2010 - 05:56 UTC

  Uruguay concerned with Argentina’s construction of atomic power plant

  

  Uruguay is considering an alleged Argentine violation of the UN Nuclear Security Convention since it was never notified of the construction of the Atucha II atomic power plant, 100 kilometres to the north of the capital Buenos Aires and which is one of the country’s main public works.

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 - 04:45 UTC

  Top colours for Uruguayan president Mujica in his first 100 days

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Pepe Mujica is riding high on public opinion approval in his first 100 days in office. According to the latest data from several pollsters, Mujica has an approval rating of 74%, which is 13 and 16 percentage points more than his two immediate predecessors Tabare Vazquez and Jorge Batlle.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 20:39 UTC

  Argentina does not rule out Brazil in the River Uruguay joint monitoring

  

  Argentina’s Deputy Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti did not rule out the possibility of Brazil integrating the joint environmental monitoring of the River Uruguay currently being arranged by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica.

• Friday, June 18th 2010 - 05:54 UTC

  Mujica also wants Brazil in the joint monitoring of the River Uruguay

  

  President Jose Mujica said the Wednesday night decision by Argentine activists to lift the (four year) blockade on a bridge leading to Uruguay was ‘our team’s fourth goal’ (in reference to that afternoon’s 3-0 victory over South Africa at the World Cup).

• Thursday, June 17th 2010 - 06:13 UTC

  Argentine activists suspend blockade; 60 days to reach agreement

  

  Argentine activists voted Wednesday night to temporarily lift the roadblock on a bridge leading to Uruguay which has been at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between the two countries regarding the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side which allegedly contaminates.

• Tuesday, June 15th 2010 - 05:17 UTC

  Argentine pickets notified of charges for blockading bridge leading to Uruguay

  

  The Argentine Gendarmerie following instructions from a federal judge notified Monday an estimated twenty Gualeguaychú picketers that a civil and criminal case was filed against them by the Argentine government for the roadblock of a bridge linking with neighbouring Uruguay.

• Saturday, June 12th 2010 - 04:54 UTC

  Argentine ministers call on pickets to abandon roadblock leading to Uruguay

  

  Argentine ministers went public again on Friday to insist that there are no excuses left for keeping a roadblock on a bridge leading to neighbouring Uruguay, a long standing protest since 2006 against the construction of the Botnia pulp mill.

• Saturday, June 12th 2010 - 04:51 UTC

  Uruguay targeting a US dollar at 21/22 Pesos to help exporters

  

  Uruguay will take ‘all the necessary measures’ to target the US dollar at 21/22 Pesos, its equilibrium point to help boost exports, according to Deputy Minister of Economy Pedro Buonomo.