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Montevideo, April 11th 2026 - 00:39 UTC

Uruguay

  • Saturday, June 24th 2023 - 10:53 UTC

    Paraná Waterway: Brazil, Uruguay and Bolivia back Paraguay

    Argentina's toll was found to be “notoriously excessive” and detrimental to many of the country's interests

    Brazil, Uruguay, and Bolivia Friday supported Paraguay's stance regarding Argentina's decision to charge tolls to barges sailing through the “Port of Santa Fe-Confluencia” section of the Parana River, it was reported in Buenos Aires after a new meeting of the Commission of the Paraguay-Parana Waterway Agreement.

  • Friday, June 23rd 2023 - 11:10 UTC

    Microsoft AI lab inaugurated in Uruguay

    It is the fourth such facility worldwide

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday declared inaugurated Microsoft's first Artificial Intelligence laboratory in Latin America and the fourth in the world. The installations are at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).

  • Wednesday, June 21st 2023 - 10:34 UTC

    Buquebús ship banned from active service

    Buquebús' Eladia Isabel was found to be in a distressing condition, despite not being operational

    Argentina's Customs General Directorate Tuesday banned Buquebús' Eladia Isabel from River Plate shuttle services to Uruguay due to its “poor condition,” it was reported in Buenos Aires. The vessel's sailing certifications were also found to have expired.

  • Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

    Lacalle Pou decrees water emergency in Montevideo metropolitan area

    Lacalle also announced bottled water would be tax-free

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday announced new measures to face the water crisis after a cabinet meeting, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 11:29 UTC

    No dove of peace after all for battleship Graf Spee's eagle

    “I still maintain that it is a good idea,” said Lacalle after reversing his decision

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had a change of mind Sunday regarding the bronze eagle from the Third Reich's battleship Admiral Graf Spee and announced it would not be turned into a dove of peace because “an overwhelming majority did not share” his decision. However, he did not specify what will happen to the piece.

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:18 UTC

    The Scotchmen football club tour of Argentina and Uruguay in 1923

    Third Lanark arrived in Argentina on 9 June 1923 after three weeks at sea

    One hundred years ago, a Scottish football club embarked on a controversial overseas tour to Argentina and Uruguay. “Are Third Lanark wise?” was the question as the Glasgow club set sail for a summer in South America.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    The Nazi eagle of battleship Graf von Spee to become a dove of peace

    The eagle with the Nazi emblem in its claws hoisted from the River Plate back in 2006

    The man-sized, 350 kilos bronze eagle holding the Nazi emblem in its claws, rescued from the remains of the German battleship scuttled in the River Plate will be turned into a dove of peace, to be located somewhere along the Uruguayan coast where the mighty River Plate becomes the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    WWII: Graf Spee's eagle to be turned into a bronze dove of peace

    “The signal from our country to our people and the outside world is that we are a society of peace and union,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 2006 will be transformed into a dove as a “symbol of peace and union” by local artist Pablo Atchugarry, whose work is expected to be completed by November, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Friday, June 16th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

    Uruguayan State admits guilt in 1974 “April Girls” murders

    Vice President Argimón urged Uruguayans to provide information on missing persons

    During a ceremony at the Legislative Palace in Montevideo presided over by Vice President Beatriz Argimón, and pursuant to a sentence from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), the Uruguayan State Thursday admitted its responsibility in the April 21, 1974, murders of Laura Raggio, Diana Maidanik, and Silvia Reyes by the military during the last civil-military dictatorship (1973-1985).

  • Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 06:31 UTC

    Overseas business risk for Uruguay, according to UK FCDO

    The impressive pulp mills of which Uruguay is preparing to inaugurate a third

    The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office has published Information on how UK companies can control risks when doing business in Uruguay.