Uruguay

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 12:25 UTC

  Estancia Vik, Jose Ignacio, Uruguay: The Art of Doing Nothing

  

  Il dolce far niente, (the art of doing nothing), an old Italian expression, so difficult to define with words, becomes crystal-clear once you set foot in Estancia Vik in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 20:09 UTC

  Scarce rainfall forces Uruguay to buy power from Argentina

  

  Uruguay facing a severe drought and insufficient rainfall began this week to receive electricity from the Argentine power grid. Uruguay’s electricity is mainly hydroelectric and in the country’s main dams the water level has been falling dramatically.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 13:36 UTC

  US embassy Wikileak questions Chilean president Piñera’s business practices

  

  United States Ambassador to Chile Alejandro D. Wolff apologized to Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera for Wikileak revelations that showed U.S. officials questioning the past businessman practices of Piñera during last year’s presidential runoff race between the Conservative coalition candidate and Senator Eduardo Frei, of the center-left Concertacion coalition

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 13:00 UTC

  Uruguay exports soar 23.8% in value during 2010 over the previous year

  

  Uruguayan exports soared 23.8% in value during 2010 compared to 2009 which represent a new record according to the country’s Union of Exporters. Sales totaled 6.76 billion US dollars while imports to the month of October (the latest Central Bank officially available data) reached 6.7 billion USD, which represent a 18.6% increase in the first ten months of last year.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 11:03 UTC

  Uruguay “exported” 1.414 football players in the last decade

  

  Uruguay “exported” 1.414 football players during the last decade, (equivalent to 128 teams) to such different places as Argentina, Italy, Iraq, Russia or Romania according to a report from a local Montevideo newspaper.

• Friday, December 31st 2010 - 02:49 UTC

  Happy New Year to all our subscribers and readers!

  

  All of us at MercoPress.com wish our subscribers and readers the very best Happy New Year!.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2010 - 08:13 UTC

  Beatles first Latin American museum opens next January 3 in Buenos Aires

  

  Latin America’s first museum dedicated to The Beatles opens in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on January 3 and will display the “treasures” of the greatest collector of objects paraphernalia from the Liverpool quartet.

• Monday, December 27th 2010 - 09:07 UTC

  Drought stricken-Uruguay praises Argentina’s “formidable gesture”

  

  President Jose Mujica described as a “formidable gesture” the Argentine government’s decision to facilitate the export of grains and fodder to Uruguay which in under an “agriculture emergency” because of a severe drought that threatens much of the cattle to the north of the country.

• Sunday, December 26th 2010 - 22:51 UTC

  ”Challenges ahead” for Uruguay’s tourism sector, reports online guide

  

  The publisher of www.UruguayNow.com says that Montevideo’s neglected downtown and deteriorating levels of personal safety are problems that will hamper the growth of tourism in the country

• Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:42 UTC

  EU blocks Uruguayan squid shipment because of high cadmium content

  

  The European Union blocked a shipment of squid from Uruguay’s main fishing processing group Fripur S.A. and sent Uruguayan authorities what is known as “rapid sanitary alert” explaining the motive for such a decision.