Uruguay

• Friday, December 19th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's record wheat crop nightmare for farmers' pockets

  

  Uruguay expects this year its largest wheat harvest on record, 1.3 million tons including 900.000 for export, according to a report from the Agriculture Ministry Planning and Policies Office, OPYPA.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay: global pulp company presents strategic project

  

  Sweden-Finland's Stora Enso paper, pulp and wood giant which, has plans to establish a plant in Uruguay has formally presented a strategic environment assessment plan as part of its forestry exploitation project.

• Monday, December 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's dispute with Kirchners becomes regional

  

  Uruguay is considering abandoning the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR in the event Argentina manages to modify the mechanism for the nomination to the chair of the organization, thus imposing its candidate former president Nestor Kirchner, which Uruguay rejects point blank.

• Monday, December 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay ex-guerrilla leader nominated presidential candidate

  

  Uruguay's former guerrilla leader and currently Senator Jose Mujica was chosen by an overwhelming majority as the ruling coalition's presidential candidate for next year's elections, but he will first have to face another challenge from other hopefuls in June.

• Monday, December 15th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Botnia Pulp and Fiction: Finnish “mea culpa”

  

  Jussi Pakkasvirta, an expert on the political history of Latin America from Helsinki University, has recently published a wide-ranging study of attitudes towards the Finnish pulp and paper industry's controversial moves into South America.

• Friday, December 12th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  A “boxing weekend” for Uruguay's ruling coalition congress

  

  Uruguay's ruling coalition national congress of delegates meets this weekend to decide on the presidential candidate --or hopefuls-- for next October's election, but contrary to the long tradition of the catch-all movement, no consensus has been reached or seems achievable.

• Tuesday, December 9th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Presidential hopefuls inflation in Uruguayan ruling coalition

  

  Uruguay's ruling coalition Broad Front opened the way for a short list of five presidential pre candidates to compete for the official candidacy for the coming general election in October 2009. The decision was taken over the week-end at a national plenary of the coalition with 172 delegates from all the country

• Thursday, December 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay estimates 3% economic growth next year

  

  Uruguay's economic team announced on Wednesday the government's estimates for the next twelve months admitting that the world recession will reach the country but growth rate in 2009 will be in the range of 3%, “above the average of the last fifty years”.

• Thursday, December 4th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Vazquez disgusted with disarray quits Socialist Party

  

  Uruguay's president Tabaré Vazquez decision to quit the Socialist Party sent shockwaves inside the ruling coalition. The news only became public this week although the letter was dated November 24 a day after the Socialist party rejected a presidential veto on a bill to decriminalize abortion.

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2008 - 20:00 UTC

  Coalition government for Uruguay 2010, whoever wins

  

  Although still eleven months away, public opinion polls show that Uruguay's next government will not enjoy the current comfortable congressional majority and the president will emerge from a run off at the end of November 2009.