Uruguay

• Tuesday, December 30th 2014 - 07:29 UTC

  Guantanamo refugee wants to leave Uruguay

  

  Reports indicate he would prefer to go back to his Palestine parents, who are too old to move to South America.

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 10:03 UTC

  US offer 5 million dollars for former Guantanamo detainee

  

  Held since 2002, Ibrahim al-Rubaish was released in 2006 to a rehabilitation camp in Saudi Arabia, but has now become a leading Al Qaeda, ISIS operative

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 00:28 UTC

  Heavy rains cause flooding in Montevideo

  

  Worst storm in 50 years. Emergency Committee receivs over 100 calls for help. Bad weather expected to continue.

• Friday, December 26th 2014 - 00:59 UTC

  Uruguay's Economy Minister skeptical on ARU study

  

  Consumers could have saved as much as US$ 167 million had fuel been imported directly instead of oil being refined by ANCAP. Mario Bergara deems it to be “overblown”

• Wednesday, December 24th 2014 - 06:43 UTC

  State Dept. confirms resignation of Guantanamo Closure Special Envoy

  

  Clifford Sloan had acted as a liaison with Uruguayan President Jose Mujica in bringing six refugees into the South American country for humanitarian reasons

• Tuesday, December 23rd 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  Broad Front Deputies pass Media Law bill in Uruguay

  

  New regulations for broadcast media about to be signed into law shortly. President-elect Tabare Vazquez also supports the move.

• Monday, December 22nd 2014 - 08:35 UTC

  Poet, writer Horacio Ferrer dies in Buenos Aires at age 81

  

  Author of Ballad for a Madman (Balada para un loco), the Uruguayan born artist was a close collaborator of Astor Piazzolla's and other tango musicians.

• Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 19:58 UTC

  Mujica's role in US-Cuba understanding praised worldwide

  

  The role played by Uruguay's President in the process which led to Wednesday's announcements that the United States and Cuba are to restore full diplomatic ties, was praised by Presidents Barack Obama, Raul Castro and international analysts.

• Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 02:53 UTC

  Deported Uruguayan murderer defies ban, returns to Argentina

  

  A convicted murderer and robber of Uruguayan nationality sentenced to life imprisonment and deported back to his country in 2008, ends up arrested one again in Argentina. Should he be sent back home yet again or go back to jail? Judges silent.

• Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 02:34 UTC

  South Atlantic: “Fewer catches as illex squid season ends”

  

  The Argentine jigging fleet captured nearly 150,000 tonnes of squid (Illex argentinus) in South Atlantic waters during the season that took place between 24 January and 31 August this year, according to a technical report issued by the National Institute for Fishing Research and Development (INIDEP).