Uruguay

• Saturday, February 21st 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Neo-liberal paradigm collapsed” in 2008 says Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's economy expanded 10.6% last year compared to 2007, said the government in an official state of the country address to Congress. The report also underlines that with the triggering of last year's international crisis, ”the neo-liberal (economic) paradigm collapsed”.

• Thursday, February 19th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguayan survivor of 1972 Andes air crash emphasizes simple life.

  

  By Peter Lowy - A recent trip to Uruguay enabled me, along with another journalist, to visit The Refuge, a ranch belonging to Roberto Canessa, a member of a rugby team that in 1972 survived a crash in the freezing Andes for more than two months, in part, by resorting to cannibalism. What started as a leisurely tour of the ranch, ended late that night with a seaside dinner, after assisting with emergency horse surgery!

• Tuesday, February 17th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Doubts about Uruguay's second pulp mill project

  Spanish pulp maker Ence has narrowed a search for a partner in its 1.6 billion US dollars paper mill in Uruguay to four foreign players as it struggles with huge debt, tight credit and an ailing European paper industry, reports Reuter's office in Madrid.

• Tuesday, February 17th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  ENCE confirms freezing of Uruguay pull plant project

  

  Spanish pulp company ENCE confirmed to Uruguayan officials that they are freezing the construction of the one million plus tons plant project in Punta Pereira until they find an associate, but discarded any chances of abandoning the whole operation, reports the Montevideo press.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Brazil's Petrobras may explore Uruguay oil

  

  Brazil's PETROBRAS oil company was the first company to acquire the bid sheet for hydrocarbon exploration contracts in areas of the Uruguayan continental platform.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Presidential hopefuls' inflation in Uruguay's ruling coalition

  

  The Uruguayan ruling coalition Broad Front made the official launching Monday of the third presidential hopeful for June primaries: Marcos Carambula who is mayor of the second most important electoral circumscription after Montevideo.

• Saturday, February 7th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's wool industry exports total 282 m USD in 2008

  

  Uruguay's wool industry exports between January 31st 2008 and February 2009 totalled 282 million US dollars which is 10.4% less that the same period a year ago, because of a 13.9% drop in wool sales and an 83.8% reduction in live sheep shipments.

• Saturday, February 7th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's ruling coalition primary “nasty and foul”

  

  One of Uruguay's ruling coalition presidential hopefuls claimed the primary campaign was turning “nasty” and could leave “deep wounds” plus mistrust and called for a “clean, respectful campaign”. He admitted that he could be the target of an inside boycott.

• Monday, February 2nd 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  “Sterile flies” to combat cattle screw worm in Uruguay

  

  Mexico made a first shipment of sterile parasitic flies to Uruguay to help combat the cattle “screw worm” or Cochliomyia hominivorax, an insect whose larvae or maggots eat living tissue, and which has gradually spread from Brazil to the southern pastures of South America.

• Thursday, January 29th 2009 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's trade deficit trebles in Jan-Nov. 2008

  

  Uruguay's trade deficit trebled during the first eleven months of 2008 compared to the same period in 2007, although November registered a slight ease in the imports' strong annual impetus, according to the latest release from the Central Bank.