Uruguay

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Uruguay holding presidential primaries on 30 June: three main candidates outstand

  

  The last Sunday of June Uruguay will be holding presidential primaries when political parties will be choosing their candidates for the coming election scheduled for next October. There are over a dozen hopefuls, but only three, maybe four or five can be considered sufficiently strong as to be taken into account. After all from one of these parties will come the next president of Uruguay, since there is no consecutive reelection in Uruguay.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Torrential rains in Uruguay forces 7.400 to abandon their homes

  

  Torrential rains in central and southern Uruguay in the past several days have caused massive floods and forced some 7,400 people to leave their homes, according to the latest update by the country's National Emergency System.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina opens an official inquiry into Sunday's massive blackout

  

  Argentina has opened an inquiry into what caused a massive blackout that left nearly 50 million people without power, Energy Minister Gustavo Lopetegui said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 18th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Agreement to implement an ambitious Plata basin that benefits six countries

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee of the countries of the Plata Basin (CIC) signed an agreement on Monday for the project “Preparing the ground for the Implementation of the Strategic Action Program for the La Plata Basin,” during a ceremony at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.

• Monday, June 17th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Massive blackout hits Mercosur; Argentina and Uruguay in the dark for six hours; major investigation promised

  

  A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and parts of Chile and southern Brazil on Sunday. The Argentine president called it an “unprecedented” failure in the countries' interconnected power grid.

• Monday, June 17th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentine authorities admit they have yet to detect the cause of the major blackout

  

  Argentina's Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui described the massive blackout suffered mostly by Argentina and Uruguay, but which also affected areas of neighbouring countries, Paraguay, Chile and Brazil as “an extraordinary event that should have never happened, there are no reasons for it occurring and leaving Argentina completely in the black”.

• Sunday, June 16th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Luis Suarez: “Losing the Champions League semi-final, the worst moments of my life”

  

  Uruguayan born Barcelona striker Luis Suarez said losing 4-0 to Liverpool in the Champions League semi-finals was as painful as when he was sent home from the 2014 World Cup for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini and banned from football for four months.

• Monday, June 10th 2019 - 08:31 UTC

  Five London suspects released on bail following an attack on a Uruguay/US lesbian couple

  

  British police released five suspects on bail following an attack on a lesbian couple on a London bus which threw a spotlight on homophobia in the country.

• Friday, June 7th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro and Macri announce the EU/Mercosur trade deal is “imminent”

  

  The presidents of Argentina and Brazil said on Thursday that an agreement is imminent on a free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina's Mauricio Macri expressed confidence that the deal would soon be signed as they met in Buenos Aires for talks.

• Wednesday, June 5th 2019 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay: Finances don't grow; Economy Minister estimates an improvement for the second semester, as Macri did

  

  Uruguay is experiencing, in recent months, a marked drop in investment and the generation of employment. Uruguayan Economy Minister Danilo Astori admitted Wednesday the fall of public accounts, with an annualized fiscal deficit in April that was 4.8% of GDP, and opted to provide greater incentives to investors and entrepreneurs. The Uruguayan press accuses the government of betting on the hope that the results will begin to be felt in the second half of the year, as it was heard a while ago in Argentina under the administration of President Mauricio Macri.