Uruguay

• Monday, March 16th 2009 - 08:52 UTC

  Uruguay adopts low profile approach to Argentina’s trade hurdles

  

  Uruguay has no plans to appeal before Mercosur against Argentina’s decision to expand the list of products which no longer have access to automatic import licences which is significantly slowing bilateral trade, said Uruguay’s director of the Mercosur Economic Affairs and Integration Office, Walter Cancela.

• Sunday, March 15th 2009 - 19:11 UTC

  The gaucho club: Uruguay provides good turf to saddle up and release your inner cowgirl

  

  Fernando tacked up the horses – with sheepskin saddles. So much for the tough gaucho life. The heat of the day had started to dissipate and we were heading out from El Charabon, a 2,000-acre estancia – or ranch – in the department of Rocha, southern Uruguay.

• Friday, March 13th 2009 - 12:42 UTC

  Uruguay attracts European investments in timber plantations

  

  Favourable timber growing conditions, a good business climate and a stable political environment has attracted a number of European forest companies to invest in Uruguay the past few years, reports WRQ.

• Friday, March 13th 2009 - 06:33 UTC

  Polls show opposition ahead of Uruguay’s ruling coalition

  

  Uruguay’s main opposition party is closing in on the ruling coalition Broad Front according to the latest public opinion poll which means that next October there will be no clear winner of the presidential election and a run-off in November seems certain

• Wednesday, March 11th 2009 - 23:39 UTC

  Brazil/Uruguay summit agrees on free trade and energy integration

  

  Brazilian president Lula da Silva said that relations with neighbouring Uruguay are at “their best level ever”, following a meeting Tuesday with visiting president Tabare Vazquez.

• Monday, March 9th 2009 - 14:20 UTC

  President Vazquez confident Uruguay is prepared for the crisis

  

  Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez underlined during a political rally over the weekend the successes of his administration and said the country was better prepared to face the current global crisis.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2009 - 23:00 UTC

  Uruguay's trade deficit in 2008 soared to 2.5 billion USD

  

  Uruguay's trade deficit last year soared to 2.52 billion US dollars, up from 787 million US dollars in 2007, according to the latest release from the Central Bank.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2009 - 23:00 UTC

  Tourism expenditure in Uruguay up 40% during January

  

  Tourists arriving in Uruguay during January spent 40% more than a year ago although the number remained almost similar, 315.000, according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Tourism.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2009 - 23:00 UTC

  Uruguay's exports down for the fourth month running

  

  Uruguay's exports were down 20% in February compared to a year ago, the fourth month running, evidence that the global slowdown has reached the country's foreign trade, according to Foreign Trade expert Luis Bonifacino, quoted in the Montevideo press.

• Monday, March 2nd 2009 - 23:00 UTC

  Can art save Uruguay's gem mines?

  

  A Uruguayan mining company is turning to art to beat the effects of the global economic slowdown on its amethyst exports.