Uruguay

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 21:25 UTC

  First time ever woman president (for a few days) in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay’s First Lady and speaker of the main Senate group in the ruling coalition Lucia Topolansky will be sworn as interim president on Friday, the first woman-president in the history of the Uruguayan democracy.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 04:26 UTC

  The Economist analyzes Uruguay’s debate on rejecting the “Expiration Law”

  

  Néstor Kirchner Argentina’s late former president first became popular by pushing for the repeal of the amnesties and pardons that prior governments had granted to members of the country’s bloody 1976-83 dictatorship. Argentines cheered when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconstitutional in 2005, and have supported the hundreds of prosecutions for human-rights abuses that have been launched since then.

• Wednesday, November 24th 2010 - 02:56 UTC

  Ample support for democracy in Uruguay and Argentina; much less in Peru

  

  Peru is the country with less citizen support for democracy in the Americas while in Uruguay, Costa Rica and Argentina the system enjoys massive approval.

• Sunday, November 21st 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Uruguay’s expects 200 cruise calls and 300.000 visitors

  

  Uruguay expects 200 cruise calls this 2010/2011 season totalling 300.000 visitors between passengers and crewmembers said the country’s Tourism and Sports minister Hector Lescano during the official launching of the cruise season.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 21:06 UTC

  Random and surprise inspections of fishing vessels docked in Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan authorities begun this week surprise and random safety inspections of fishing vessels docked in the port of Montevideo following a succession of fire incidents, mostly involving Korean flagged vessels which were described as “suspicious”.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 21:01 UTC

  Mujica praises Argentina/Uruguay common past; calls for an end to ‘ports’ war’

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica underlined the strong common links going back to the birth of Argentina and Uruguay and called for an end to the “ports’ war” (Montevideo vs Buenos Aires) a rivalry born when the two countries were provinces of the colonial Spanish empire.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 20:45 UTC

  Uruguayan tycoon involved in major corruption and tax scam in South Africa

  

  Uruguayan businessman Gaston Savoi long established in South Africa is facing corruption and tax evasion charges in association with top figures from the ruling African National Congress party belonging to the provincial governments of KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Cape.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2010 - 19:04 UTC

  Uruguay to investigate “suspicious” fires in Korean jiggers docked in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay has ordered an in depth investigation to all fires in fishing vessels occurred in the port of Montevideo since 2008 following a second incident in two days, Monday and Wednesday early dawn, involving a Korean flagged trawler and a now jigger.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 18:44 UTC

  Korean vessel fire frustrates Uruguay’s cruise season official launching

  

  A fire which broke out in a Korean flagged fishing vessel docked in the port of Montevideo and which was still burning early Monday forced the suspension of the official launching of Uruguay’s cruise season.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 18:25 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina implement “scientific” accord for joint monitoring

  

  Uruguay and Argentina announced they had reached a final “scientific” agreement for the joint environmental monitoring of the UPM-Botnia pulp mill in shared waters and which delaying the implementation of a bilateral agreement.