Uruguay

• Tuesday, July 1st 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  Uruguay received 237 cruise calls in 2013/14 with 409.367 visitors

  

  During the 2013/14 season, 237 cruise vessels called in Uruguay's two main ports, Montevideo and Punta del Este, with 409.367 visitors, a 6,3% increase in calls over the previous season, according to a report released by the country's presidential web-site.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:44 UTC

  Uruguay ratifies Bolivia's Mercosur incorporation; consolidates Atlantic/Pacific corridor

  

  Uruguay promulgated the bill which incorporates Bolivia as the latest member of Mercosur, the South American group made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. The incorporation of Bolivia should help with the consolidation of a Mercosur Atlantic-Pacific corridor across South America.

• Monday, June 30th 2014 - 06:23 UTC

  “FIFA leaders are a bunch of old sons of bitches”, said Uruguay president Mujica

  

  FIFA leaders are “a bunch of old sons of bitches” and could have imposed sanctions “but certainly not fascist sanctions” complained Uruguay's president Jose Mujica referring to the suspension suffered by Uruguay's scorer Luis Alberto Suárez who was banned for nine matches and with four months of complete football inactivity.

• Saturday, June 28th 2014 - 10:23 UTC

  Uruguay's coach resigns FIFA post to protest 'excessive' ban of Suarez

  

  Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez has resigned his post in the FIFA strategic commission over the federation’s decision to ban Luis Suarez from the World Cup after the forward bit Italy’s defender Giorgio Chiellini during a group stage match.

• Friday, June 27th 2014 - 06:56 UTC

  Mujica strongly supports Suárez and blasts FIFA: “they went too far”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica blasted FIFA's Thursday decision to fine and suspend the country's main scorer Luis Suarez from any football activity for four months arguing the association that rules world football measures things with different rods, and since Uruguay “is a small country, it's cheap for them”.

• Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 06:22 UTC

  Uruguay's second pulp mill begins production: 1.3million tons annually

  

  Uruguay's second pulp mill Montes del Plata started production this week following an investment of 2 billion dollars, the largest ever in the recent history of the country. The announcement was made by the Chilean-Swedish complex that is running the plant.

• Saturday, June 21st 2014 - 09:18 UTC

  German companies warn of consequences from Uruguay/Argentina conflict

  

  The Uruguay-Germany commerce and industry chamber (AHK), expressed its deepest concern over the current tension in relations between Uruguay and Argentina, and warned about the impact on the business climate for the two countries.

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 07:15 UTC

  Striker Suarez admitted having dreamt he would score two goals

  

  Striker Luis Suarez admitted he had dreamt he was going to score two goals, the two that helped Uruguay defeat England 2-1 in the 2014 World Cup and leaves the team led by Gerard in a most uncomfortable position.

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  Uruguay advances details of third oil and gas bid round Punta del Este basin

  

  Uruguay has released a draft map of four ultra-deepwater and seven shallow-water blocks in the Punta del Este-Atlantic basin that will be on offer in the country’s third oil and gas bid round next year, officials said in Moscow this week, according to the oil and gas site Upstream.

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Mujica delivers Obama message to Castro: 'let's talk about lifting the trade embargo”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica delivered a message from Barak Obama to Cuba's Raul Castro proposing the opening of dialogue to discuss the blockade, reported the Montevideo media on Thursday. The occasion was the recent G77 summit held in Bolivia.