Uruguay

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 05:11 UTC

  Mounting pressure in Argentina for Justice to order removal of pickets

  

  Pressure is mounting in Argentina for pickets blocking an international bridge leading to Uruguay to be ordered removed by a court order, following Wednesday’ presidential summit when Uruguay’s Jose Mujica and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner agreed on a joint agenda of pending issues.

• Friday, June 4th 2010 - 05:05 UTC

  Bernanke raises concern over persistent high unemployment

  

  Lending to small businesses inn the United States is declining, thus making it more difficult to come to grips with the persistent problem of high unemployment, admitted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

• Thursday, June 3rd 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Mujica and CFK agree to implement bilateral monitoring of the River Uruguay

  

  Uruguay and Argentina pledged Wednesday to advance in a wide ranging 27-point agenda but most important to work within a 60-day scheme to perform a bilateral monitoring of the shared river Uruguay, where the construction of a pulp mill on the Uruguayan side soured bilateral relations for several years.

• Saturday, May 29th 2010 - 05:19 UTC

  Montevideo, Buenos Aires, most liveable cities of South America

  

  According to the 2010 World Ranking of Mercer's Quality of Life, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Santiago are the best major cities in South America to live although they compare poorly with the top ten mostly from Europe, Canada, NZ and Australia.

• Saturday, May 29th 2010 - 01:47 UTC

  Brazil calls on South America to have its own military dissuasive capacity

  

  South America must recover its military dissuasive capacity so it can say ‘no’ when necessary said Brazilian Defence minister Nelson Jobim following a meeting this week in Montevideo with his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Rosadilla.

• Wednesday, May 26th 2010 - 06:30 UTC

  Government plans taxing overseas assets of residents in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay is planning to tax deposits and other assets held overseas by residents in the country. The bill which has been drafted and promises to be controversial is expected to be sent for legislative consideration in coming days announced Economy minister Fernando Lorenzo.

• Tuesday, May 25th 2010 - 10:26 UTC

  Argentina’s Soy King praises Uruguay and its farming revolution

  

  Gustavo Grobocopatel also known as the Soy King of Argentina praised Uruguay’s conditions for corporate growth and said the country in the last seven years has undergone “revolutionary changes”.

• Saturday, May 22nd 2010 - 07:14 UTC

  “I’d rather fix the blocks on trade than the bridge pickets”, says Mujica

  

  Uruguayan President José “Pepe” Mujica was ironic Thursday when asked about the current roadblock on the Gualeguaychú-Fray Bentos border-crossing bridge with neighbouring Argentina (in place for over four years now) and asked whether he should “spit Argentina in the eye,” while explaining he is more focused on trade blocks than road blocks.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 02:28 UTC

  Growing concern in Uruguay with Brazilian delay in FMD vaccination timetable

  

  Uruguay is concerned that in neighbouring Rio Grande do Sul, one of Brazil’s breadbaskets and famous for livestock breeding, the vaccination campaign against foot and mouth disease remains disturbingly delayed.

• Friday, May 21st 2010 - 02:25 UTC

  Spanish bank takes leading position in Uruguay’s private financial sector

  

  One of Spain’s largest bank BBVA is waiting for the final approval from Uruguay’s central bank to disburse 100 million US dollars for the acquisition of France’s Credit (Agricole) Uruguay said Vicente Rodero BBVA director for Latinamerica.