Uruguay

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Lacalle Pou gave an Uruguayan mare to the Emir of Qatar as a gift and left on Monday: Why is it important?

  

  This Monday, a Criollo horse that the Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, promised to send as a gift to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left Uruguay for Qatar. Last February, the South American president offered the animal during his trip to that country for the international fair Expo Dubai.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Uruguayan Higher Court upholds rejecting Pepín's asylum request

  

  A Montevideo Court of Appeals has denied Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón's asylum request, it was announced Monday.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Uruguay records coldest, driest June in decades

  

  Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported Monday that this year's was the coldest June in the last 41 years “with a countrywide anomaly of -2.3°C.”

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 08:38 UTC

  PAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling

  

  The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the country.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Uruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people

  

  Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Saturday, July 9th 2022 - 10:03 UTC

  Uruguay Central Bank raised interest rate policy 50 basis point to 9,75%

  

  Uruguay's Central Bank of Uruguay this week ordered a 50 basis point increase in the interest rate policy, the eighth straight increase since last August. The move, which brings the monetary policy rate to 9.75%, means the central bank has ordered 525bp of increases in total over the past 11 months. The 50bp hike was somewhat smaller than the four previous hikes, which included April’s 125bp increase and three 75bp hikes.

• Friday, July 8th 2022 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”

  

  Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged under 13 years of age to be halted.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 17:58 UTC

  A judge in Uruguay has prohibited Covid vaccines for children; Health Ministry complies with the ruling

  

  In a Montevideo court, judge Alejandro Recarey notified his final ruling on the appeal for protection filed to stop the vaccination against covid-19 in minors under 13 years of age in Uruguay.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Argentina and Uruguay agree on temporary ban to hake fishing

  

  The Joint Technical Commission of the Maritime Front of Argentina and Uruguay has issued a temporary ban on hake catching due to the “concentration of juvenile specimens” that “it is necessary to protect,” it was announced Wednesday.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Demonstration against Pfizer vaccines staged in Montevideo amidst court hearing

  

  A group of Uruguayan anti-vaccine protesters gathered Wednesday at the courthouse doorstep in support of Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision earlier this week to request information from the Health Ministry (MSP) and the Pfizer laboratory regarding anti-COVID-19 vaccines.