Uruguay

• Thursday, November 26th 2009 - 13:47 UTC

  President Vazquez will personally congratulate his successor Sunday night

  

  Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez will personally congratulate the winner of Sunday’s presidential election run-off, which has two hopefuls: the ruling coalition Jose Pepe Mujica who leads with a comfortable margin in public opinion polls, and the opposition candidate Luis Alberto Lacalle.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 13:16 UTC

  Disenchantment factor ahead of next Sunday’s Uruguayan presidential runoff

  

  With less than a week for Sunday’s runoff when Uruguay’s next president will be definitively elected, public opinion polls show support for both candidates “frozen” with a significant percentage undecided or with the intention of voting blank or spoiling their vote.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 07:49 UTC

  Lula da Silva anticipated his Uruguayan election vote: incumbent Mujica

  

  A leading figure from the ruling Workers Party of Brazil visited this weekend Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose “Pepe” Mujica with a message from President Lula da Silva.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 08:59 UTC

  Sour anniversary for Botnia pulp mill Argentine pickets

  

  An Argentine company has purchased 500 tons of pulp from the Uruguayan Botnia mill which is at the heart of a serious diplomatic controversy with Argentina that has reached the International Court of The Hague.

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil, Peru and Uruguay in “boom phase recovery”

  

  The Economic Climate Index (ECI) in Latin America, (developed in partnership between the German Ifo Institute and Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation) rose to 5.2 from 4.0 points between July and October 2009, exceeding for the first time since January 2008, the average of the last ten years (5.1 points).

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 02:47 UTC

  Uruguayan incumbent presidential candidate leads by 6 points in polls

  

  With only ten days for the Uruguayan presidential run-off, incumbent candidate Jose Pepe Mujica leads with 48% vote intention while his rival Luis Alberto Lacalle stands at 42% and the undecided 10%, according to the latest public opinion poll released Thursday by a Montevideo newspaper.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2009 - 14:13 UTC

  The Mujica couple, if confirmed, promise an “austere and sober” government

  

  Senator Lucia Topolansky, who would become Uruguay’s First Lady if her husband and incumbent presidential candidate Jose Mujica is confirmed in the run-off on November 29th promises to keep to an “austere and sober” style of government.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:24 UTC

  The Hague ruling on Botnia pulp mill controversy will “favour Uruguay”

  

  The International Court of The Hague will rule favourably for Uruguay in the litigation with Argentina over the Botnia pulp mill constructed on the Uruguayan side of a jointly managed river, anticipated Uruguay’s chief attorney in the case, Paul Reichler.

• Saturday, November 14th 2009 - 13:21 UTC

  Uruguay will abandon Mercosur if Lacalle is elected president

  

  Uruguay will definitively abandon Mercosur if Luis Alberto Lacalle is elected president in the run off on November 29th. Lacalle also forecasted that Mercosur as a customs union has not much time left, “it’s a dying organization”.

• Thursday, November 12th 2009 - 07:26 UTC

  Uruguay’s cruise season moves to Punta del Este fuelled by regional demand

  

  Uruguay’s 2009/2010 cruise season is scheduled to begin next November 20th in Montevideo with the arrival of “Minerva” and four days later in Punta del Este with “MSC Musica”.