Uruguay

• Saturday, January 12th 2019 - 11:12 UTC

  Venezuela in conflict of powers: Maduro took office, but Guaidó shows as president while Venezuelans protest

  

  It seemed sure that, starting January 10, Venezuela would experience high uncertainty. Nicolás Maduro swore in the presidency for the 2019-2015 government period in front of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), when the constitution of that country dictates that it is before Parliament that the president must present the inauguration. Both the international community and the National Assembly (AN), declared in contempt by the Supreme Court, mark Maduro as an usurper. The illegitimacy of the president is discussed globally and Juan Guaidó is recognized as interim president of the Republic.

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 10:03 UTC

  Claims of Uruguayan ruling coalition involvement in money laundering with Chavista regimes

  

  Uruguay and Bolivia will be the only South American countries attending this Thursday the inauguration of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro for a second five year mandate. A regime which has become an increasingly international pariah for its non democratic practices, human rights abuses, and disastrous management of the economy creating a major humanitarian crisis with food and essential pharmaceutical shortages while some three million of Venezuelans have fled the country in desperation.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Magellanic penguins: among the most faithful couples in animal kingdom

  

  Mark Waghorn, writing for The London Economic, and based on a paper on Magellanic penguins published in the January edition of Current Biology, gives us access to some fascinating facts about this breed which is most common along the Atlantic Patagonia coast and the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  How a Uruguayan town revolutionized the way we eat

  

  BBC has published a piece on the history of Corned Beef and its brand name, Fray Bentos, the city located on the banks of the Uruguay River, and which over a century ago produced what it describes “as the most influential food brands of the 20th century”

• Monday, December 31st 2018 - 00:51 UTC

  South America does not help self-employed individuals thrive, study shows

  

  Uruguay and Argentina finished last and next respectively in a study carried out by international consultants Expert Market on the difficulties faced by self-employed individuals in 57 countries, it was reported Saturday.

• Friday, December 21st 2018 - 19:39 UTC

  Uruguayan Senator Daniela Payssé dead at 72

  

  Uruguayan Broad Front (FA) Senator Daniela Payssé passed away Friday of a heart attack in Montevideo, Tourism Minister Liliam Kechichian announced. Payssé was 72.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 14:30 UTC

  Macri urges Mercosur to take action against “Venezuelan dictatorship”

  

  Argentine President Mauricio Macri Tuesday launched an appeal in Montevideo to find solutions to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela and called for the “return of democracy” in that country. He delivered that speech during the Mercosur summit where he is to take up the bloc's rotating presidency from host Tabaré Vázquez.

• Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

  Bolivia offers to join Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay 2030 World Cup bid

  

  Bolivia’s football-mad President Evo Morales has offered his Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan counterparts help in their joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
  Morales made the offer to the equally passionate presidents, Mauricio Macri of Argentina, Uruguay’s Tabare Vazquez and Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benitez during regional Mercosur heads of state meeting in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 19:43 UTC

  Mercosur leaders agreed on need for reforms in the midst of Bolsonaro's threat to leave

  

  The presidents of all Mercosur member and associate countries gathered Tuesday in Montevideo for a summit to redefine the bloc's future, in light of recent statements from Brazil's future government that the region will not be among the priorities of Jair Bolsonaro when he becomes president on January 1.

• Monday, December 17th 2018 - 00:59 UTC

  Uruguay's “Live Without Fear” to hold constitutional reform plebiscite for harsher penal code

  

  The Uruguayan “Live Without Fear” (Vivir Sin Miedo) campaign collected 376,427 signatures, way above the Electoral Court's threshold to force a a plebiscite on security matters in the next elections, Senator Jorge Larrañaga announced Saturday.