Uruguay

• Thursday, October 13th 2011 - 07:51 UTC

  Argentina denies any ‘war hypothesis’ with Uruguay over controversial pulp mill

  

  Argentine officials reacted strongly to remarks from former Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez who revealed that during the prolonged diplomatic conflict with Argentina over the construction of the Botnia-UPM pulp plant, he feared the situation could have led to an armed confrontation.

• Wednesday, October 12th 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Uruguayan president on ten-day European trade and business tour

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica left on Tuesday for a ten day visit to Europe that will take him to Sweden, Norway, Germany and Belgium, where he is expected to promote trade, investments and economic development.

• Tuesday, October 11th 2011 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay celebrated the bicentennial with a huge colourful popular party

  

  Uruguay celebrated Monday October 10 the bicentennial of its emancipation process with a great colourful, open party that attracted over 300.000 people to the streets and stages in the capital Montevideo.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 08:44 UTC

  Latam will try to define a common stance ahead of the G20 summit in France

  

  Latin American countries will be meeting in Uruguay in two weeks time to define a common stance on the international crisis for the coming G20 summit that will be taking place early November in France.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 05:11 UTC

  Honour to Steve Jobs, one of the great transformers of modern society

  

  Steve Jobs, who transformed the worlds of personal computing, music and mobile phones, died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:57 UTC

  Preliminary reports show Uruguay could have on shore recoverable gas reserves

  

  The chances for Uruguay of having significant commercial reserves of natural gas and oil are on the increase according to recent reports from US Energy and Geology agencies and published in the Montevideo press.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:16 UTC

  Uruguayan auto assembly industry exempt of Brazil’s IPI 30% tax increase

  

  In the framework of the so called Plan Maior, Brazil adopted measures to stimulate its industry with the purpose of increasing productivity and containing competition from Chinese produce in its domestic market.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina agree to hake spring ban and limit annual catch to 50.000 tons

  

  Uruguay and Argentina agreed on a three months ban for the hake fisheries in the jointly shared maritime zone with the purpose of protecting juveniles and contribute to the conservation of the resource.

• Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 05:50 UTC

  Achieving investment grade is “not critical” for Uruguay, says Economy minister

  

  Achieving investment grade in the current global scenario is “not critical” for Uruguay since the country has sufficient financing and operates in world markets as “if it had a better rating than it actually has”, said Economy minister Fernando Lorenzo.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 16:27 UTC

  Latin America remembers and praises links with Beijing on China’s National Day

  

  With China's National Day hours away, (October first), countries across Latin America pledged to further deepen ties with China, one of their biggest trade partners.