Uruguay

• Saturday, February 17th 2024 - 09:51 UTC

  Surcharge imposed on ship travel to/from Uruguay

  

  The Uruguayan government of President Luis Lacalle Pou issued a decree whereby a new surcharge of US$ 2.56 (US$2.10 plus VAT) per passenger will be added to travel by ship to and from the country to finance the new immigration control system. It will apply to regular daily services from Buenos Aires as well as to seasonal cruise ships.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:14 UTC

  Joint statement issued against the arrest of Venezuelan opposition activist

  

  Given the arrest in Venezuela of opposition activist Rocío San Miguel last week, the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay issued a joint statement Thursday calling for her release.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:10 UTC

  Uruguayan Senator praises Bukele's transformation of El Salvador

  

  Uruguayan Senator Juan Sartori of President Luis Lacalle Pou's National Party met this week with his Salvadorean President “friend” Nayib Bukele and said that the Central American country had “achieved a total change in security and openness to the world.”

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 22:16 UTC

  The Economist: Uruguay's democracy is one of the strongest in the world

  

  Uruguay has been recognized as the only full democracy in South America and the leading democracy in Latin America, according to the Democracy Index 2023 compiled by the Economist Group and published by The Economist magazine.

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

  Uruguay must pay some US$ 80 million for the 2012 closing of Pluna

  

  After a ruling issued Tuesday by a World Bank arbitration tribunal, the Uruguayan State will have to pay some US$ 30 million over the closing of the former flag carrier Pluna, which has triggered reciprocal accusations between the country's main political forces ahead of this year's presidential elections.

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:33 UTC

  Covid-19 cases on the rise in Sao Paulo and in the region

  

  Authorities in the city of São Paulo have reported that the number of Covid-19 cases more than tripled between the first epidemiological week of 2024 (Dec. 31, 2023, to Jan. 6, 2024) and the sixth (Feb. 4 to 10) after growing from 881 detections to 3,443, according to the interactive panel of the Municipal Health Department (SMS).

• Thursday, February 15th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

  US-Uruguay holding key ministerial meeting in DC

  

  The second US-Uruguay Annual Bilateral Inter-Ministerial Dialogue meeting is to take place Thursday in Washington, D.C. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian A. Nichols and Uruguayan Foreign Minister Omar Paganini will co-chair the dialogue.

• Wednesday, February 14th 2024 - 10:39 UTC

  Paraguayan Navy officer shot while touring Montevideo

  

  Paraguayan Navy Captain Marcial Martínez Gayoso who is stationed in Montevideo on a Mercosur mission was shot Tuesday at the Fortaleza del Cerro historical site while visiting it with his family.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 11:42 UTC

  Surplus from electricity exports benefits Brazilian customers

  

  Brazil totaled a surplus of R$ 888 million (US$ 179.26 million) from electricity sales to neighboring countries, which helped President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration ease the burden on Brazilian consumers, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Tuesday, February 13th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Venezuelan VP calls Lacalle Pou “a lackey”

  

  Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Monday Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had “the face of a lackey” after the latter insisted the Bolivarian regime was a dictatorship with no free elections.