Uruguay

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 22:24 UTC

  “The old lady is worse than the cross-eyed man” says President Mujica

  

  Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica, speaking without realizing a microphone was on, referred to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner as that ‘old lady’ saying she is “worse” than her late husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner.

• Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:56 UTC

  Uruguay reports lower inflation in March but the first quarter index was 3.59%

  

  Uruguay consumer prices climbed 0.66% during March totalling 3.59% in the first quarter of the year and 8.54% in the last twelve months, according to a Wednesday release from the National Stats Office, INE.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 06:57 UTC

  Uruguayan Senate approves by a clear majority same-sex marriage

  

  The Uruguayan Senate voted overwhelmingly, 23-8, in favor of a same-sex marriage measure Tuesday, which now must return to the Lower House before it is finally approved and signed by President Jose Mujica who has indicated he supports the measure.

• Wednesday, April 3rd 2013 - 03:03 UTC

  Falkland Islands’ referendum blasted by the Argentine embassy in Montevideo media

  

  In full half page white and blue ads the Argentine embassy in Montevideo expressed on Tuesday how grateful it is to Uruguay for its support in the Malvinas Islands claim and for having been one of the first countries to reject the ‘legitimacy and publicity stunt’ of the ‘pseudo-referendum’ recently held in the Falklands.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 05:30 UTC

  Uruguayan exports in first quarter down 13% compared to a year ago

  

  Uruguayan exports of goods in March continued falling thus closing a discouraging first quarter, according to Uruguay XXI, the country’s agency responsible for promoting trade and investment in the country.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 02:42 UTC

  Uruguay will go ahead with the re-gasification plant “with or without Argentina”

  

  President Jose Mujica confirmed that the project for the construction of a liquid gas re-gasification plant in the River Plate coast, originally planned with Argentina, “will go ahead with of without the Argentine government”.

• Thursday, March 28th 2013 - 10:15 UTC

  Falklands’ sovereignty belongs to the ‘whole of Latinamerica’ says Uruguay

  

  Foreign minister Luis Almagro said on Wednesday that Malvinas Islands’ sovereignty belongs to the whole of Latinamerica and as part of Latinamerica and the Caribbean, “we will defend the territorial integrity of the continent”.

• Thursday, March 28th 2013 - 10:03 UTC

  Uruguay 2012 GDP expanded 3.9% boosted by construction and domestic demand

  

  Uruguay’s GDP expanded 3.9% last in 2012 over the previous year despite a slight contraction in the fourth quarter, according to a late Wednesday release from the Central bank. The bank’s original estimate was 4%. In 2011 the economy grew a revised 6.5%.

• Wednesday, March 27th 2013 - 07:57 UTC

  Francis scheduled to visit Argentina, Chile and Uruguay next December

  

  Pope Francis is scheduled to make his first official visit to Argentina, where he was born, next December ‘to be close to his fellow compatriots’, according to ecclesiastic sources in Buenos Aires. The visit in the first half of December could extend to neighbouring Uruguay and Chile.

• Tuesday, March 26th 2013 - 03:17 UTC

  Malvinas question to be addressed with Ban Ki Moon at UN by Timerman and Latam peers

  

  On Tuesday Argentina’s Foreign minister Hector Timerman together with representatives from different Latinamerican and Caribbean organizations are scheduled to meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to address the “Malvinas Islands question”, according to a release from the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.