Uruguay

• Monday, June 1st 2009 - 13:28 UTC

  Uruguay optimistic about tourism industry prospects

  

  Uruguay’s Tourism minister is optimistic about the evolution of the industry and forecasts 2009 will be a better year in US dollars, than 2008. In spite of the global slowdown and the influenza scare the flow of visitors to Uruguay remains steady and is expected to improve 5% over last year.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 12:31 UTC

  “Failed” education anticipates “populist” governments in Uruguay

  

  Education in Uruguay has “failed” and the composition of the electorate has “changed dramatically”, an ideal mix for “populist proposals” said economist Ernesto Talvi, head of the social and economics think tank Ceres based in Montevideo.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 12:24 UTC

  Uruguay inaugurates second wind farm with 10 MW capacity

  

  Uruguay officially inaugurated on Wednesday a 10 MW capacity wind turbine park financed and equipped by Spain. The park belonging to Uruguay’s power company UTE is one of the many different efforts to broaden and diversify energy generation in the country.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 08:46 UTC

  Two possible scenarios for Uruguay’s recovery: 2010 and 2013

  

  The Uruguayan economy has two possible scenarios for recovery from the impact of the current world slowdown, in 2010 and in 2013, according to a local economics and social think tank, Ceres and its leading economist Ernesto Talvi.

• Thursday, May 28th 2009 - 08:35 UTC

  First two “imported” cases of A/H1N1 influenza in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay’s Public Health Minister, María Julia Muñoz, confirmed the first two cases of influenza A (H1N1) in her country during a press conference Wednesday. One of the two Uruguayans infected is 24-years-old and the other is a 15-year-old minor, who had both travelled to Argentina and returned to their country without apparent symptoms.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2009 - 08:01 UTC

  Punta del Este square meter prices remain steady

  

  The value of the square metre in Uruguay’s most fashionable resort Punta del Este remains steady and experienced a slight increase in the last year according to an April report from ReporteInmobiliario.com, one of Buenos Aires leading real estate analysts.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2009 - 06:43 UTC

  Ence’s assets in Uruguay taken over by Stora Enso and Arauco

  

  Finland’s Stora Enso, Europe’s leading paper producer and Arauco, one of the largest forest industry enterprises in Latinamerica based in Chile, announced Monday the definitive purchase agreement for the joint (50%/50%) acquisition of Spanish pulp producer Grupo ENCE assets in Uruguay.

• Monday, May 18th 2009 - 11:29 UTC

  Uruguay’s leading poet and Latinamerican writer dies in Montevideo

  

  Mario Benedetti, Uruguay’s leading poet and one of Latinamerica’s most read authors died Sunday in Montevideo at the age of 88. He became famous in the Spanish speaking world in 1960 with his landmark novel La Tregua (The truce) which years later served as the script for a much praised film.

• Sunday, May 17th 2009 - 12:55 UTC

  Uruguay scraps rules banning homosexuals from armed forces

  

  This week Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez announced that his government will “allow gays to join the armed forces” by scrapping military rules that define homosexuality as a disorder”.

• Sunday, May 17th 2009 - 12:52 UTC

  Uruguayan rice crop with record yield of 8.012 kilos per hectare

  

  Uruguay’s rice 2009 crop is estimated in 1.3 million tons and although the area planted was 4.5% less that in 2008, yield is a record 8.012 kilos per hectare, according to the latest release from the Agriculture Statistics Department, DIEA.