Uruguay

• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 20:33 UTC

  Uruguay needs to sell the Graf Spee's eagle to pay those who retrieved it

  

  An Uruguayan Court of Appeals has ruled the Government needs to sell the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the 3rd Reich's Admiral Graf Spee off the Montevideo coast.

• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina accountable for disappearance of two Uruguayans in the 1970s

  

  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has determined Argentina was internationally responsible for the forced disappearances of Uruguayan nationals Mario Roger Julien Cáceres and Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite “perpetrated within the framework of the systematic plan of repression implemented in the 1976-1983 period and in the context of Operation Condor,” it was announced in San José, Costa Rica.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2021 - 21:01 UTC

  Omicron arrived in Uruguay: Uruguayans need to get their third dose of vaccine, minister says

  

  Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas Wednesday confirmed the presence of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in the country, which also heralds an overall increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Uruguay consolidates climate change policy, minister says

  

  Uruguay's Environment Minister Adrián Peña Monday forecast that by 2035 ANCAP's La Teja refinery will be closed and vehicles will be 100% zero emissions, as the country advances towards its carbon-neutral goals for 2050

• Monday, December 27th 2021 - 09:38 UTC

  Uruguayan President back from Congo Christmas celebration

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou has returned home after spending Christmas in Congo with troops from his country stationed there on a UN peacekeeping mission.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  All acquitted in Austral Fray Bentos crash probe

  

  Argentina's Federal Oral Court number five Thursday acquitted all those under investigation for the 1997 fall of an Austral Douglas DC-9-32 in the Uruguayan city of Fray Bentos.

• Friday, December 24th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Uruguayan President leaves on morale boosting Congo mission

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday transferred the powers of his office to Vice President Beatriz Argimón before departing for Congo, where he is to spend Christmas with troops stationed there as a part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Uruguay's President admits FTA with Turkey under consideration

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday admitted his country was after one-on-one trade deals with countries other than China and singled out Turkey was a target. Regarding a possible agreement with the United States, Lacalle said it would be a childhood dream come true.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 23:05 UTC

  Uruguay, EU agree on reciprocity regarding digital vaccination certificates

  

  Uruguay Tuesday became the fifth country to join the European Union's covid-19 certificate program. It is also South America's first.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 10:35 UTC

  Former GACH expert against Uruguay's easing on COVID-19 measures

  

  Uruguayan COVID-19 expert Rafael Radi, a former coordinator of the Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH), has said in an interview that eliminating the second PCR test for those arriving into his country was a “somewhat bold” measure he would have not recommended.