Uruguay

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:52 UTC

  Uruguayan Senate passes social security reform on to Lower House

  

  Uruguay's Senate Wednesday approved each article in particular of the social security reform bill, which will now go to the Lower House for further deliberation.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Uruguayan gov't wants to create national space agency

  

  The government of President Luis Lacalle Pou has drafted a bill to create the Uruguayan Space Agency, which would function as a decentralized agency under the competence of the head of state, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  First family of Afghan refugees arriving in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay is to welcome Thursday the first family of Afghan refugees, Así Nos Va from Montevideo's Radio Carve reported.

• Wednesday, December 28th 2022 - 19:33 UTC

  Uruguay: Senate agreed in general to social security reform

  

  Uruguay's Senate Tuesday issued a broad approval to the social security reform bill, leaving the details to be reviewed Wednesday, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:29 UTC

  Former Uruguayan football star Fabian O'Neill dies aged 49

  

  Former Uruguayan footballer Fabian O'Neill died Sunday in Montevideo at the age of 49, it was reported. O'Neill, who suffered from chronic cirrhosis, had been hospitalized on Saturday in an intensive care unit.

• Monday, December 26th 2022 - 08:51 UTC

  Uruguay's cruise season in full swing; largest ever vessel MSC Seaview docks in Montevideo

  

  The cruise season in Uruguay is in full swing and according to local authorities, some 241 calls are expected this summer. On one day three cruises docked in Montevideo, the MSC Preziosa with 4,300 passengers, the Azamara Pursuit with 379 passengers, and the Oosterdam with 1,200 passengers.

• Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Uruguay's President to bring along two former colleagues to Lula's inauguration

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday invited his predecessors Julio María Sanguinetti and José Mujica to the Jan. 1 inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva in Brasilia.

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 18:27 UTC

  Authorities on alert over poisonous stingrays on Argentine La Plata river shores

  

  Argentine authorities have issued a series of recommendations after the appearance of poisonous stingrays on the beaches of Punta Lara and Ensenada, south of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) was reported.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 20:03 UTC

  Eight deaths reported in Uruguay of streptococcus

  

  Uruguayan health officials Thursday reported eight people have died of a strong form of streptococcus after cases were detected between Nov. 3 and Dec. 12 in the South American country.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 15:32 UTC

  Uruguay: Lacalle Pou's former bodyguard “spied” on the President’s ex-wife on his request

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou and his wife, Lorena Ponce de León, separated earlier this year. Two months later, on July 3rd, the then head of security for the president and his family –currently in prison accused of falsifying passports among other crimes–, Alejandro Astesiano, asked the deputy executive director of the National Police, Jorge Berriel, to inquire in “confidential mode” about a personal trip of the woman who still presents herself as the first lady of Uruguay on her social media.