Uruguay

• Monday, June 16th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Land concentration and soy “pools” boom debate in Uruguay

  

  The debate on land concentration and the so called (financial) soybean pools, which is currently one of the main issues behind the Argentine farmers' conflict, has reached Uruguay where apparently the oil seed boom is rapidly displacing dairy farms.

• Monday, June 16th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan president visiting Panama, Cuba and Mexico

  Uruguay and Panama signed on Monday several cooperation agreements during the official visit of Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez to the Central American country, the first leg of a tour that will also take him to Cuba and Mexico.

• Friday, June 13th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  NZ company further expands in Uruguayan farming

  New Zealand rural services company PGG Wrightson continues to expand in South America. The NZX-listed company announced the purchase of a 51% stake in Romualdo Rodriguez , a Uruguay-based livestock, wool and rural real estate business.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguayan economy expanded 10.9% in the first quarter

  

  Boosted by strong exports of agricultural commodities and domestic demand for communications services the Uruguayan economy expanded 10.9% in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period a year ago.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Warning that Uruguay is running out of “fiscal margin”

  In spite of the good performance of the Uruguayan economy academics and former ministers have warned that given the expansion of public spending and subsidies to alleviate energy prices, the government is running out of “fiscal margin” in the event of a contingency.

• Monday, June 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Dead penguins and oil covered found on Uruguayan beaches

  Dozens of dead penguins and others alive but with traces of oil appeared over the weekend along the east of Uruguay according to a marine life conservation non government organization.

• Monday, June 9th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay to make oil potencial presentation in Rome

  

  Uruguay hopes to attract the interest of global oil corporations when it makes a first tentative presentation of recent seismic survey data from its continental shelf next Thursday at the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers meeting in Rome.

• Sunday, June 8th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's exports closing on 10 billion US dollars in 08

  Exports from one of Mercosur's junior members Uruguay could reach ten billion US dollars this year, a considerable hike from the 6.8 billion of 2007 and the original official estimate of “above 9 billion US dollars”, according to sources from the Ministry of Economy.

• Wednesday, June 4th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  River Plate vessels collision leaves 20 kilometers fuel trail

  Merchant ships from Greece and Malta collided off the coast of Uruguay, dumping fuel oil from one of the vessels, Uruguay's Navy said on Wednesday in a statement. However no one was hurt in the accident which occurred late Tuesday night.

• Tuesday, June 3rd 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  May inflation in Uruguay up 0.87% and 4.10% in 2008

  Consumer prices in Uruguay during May increased 0.87%, accumulating 4.10% in the first five months of 2008, according to the country's Statistics Institute (INE), latest release. The index is higher than the average forecasted by 28 Central Bank consultants that anticipated 0.7%.