Uruguay

• Friday, September 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay tries more orthodox economics to tame inflation

  

  Uruguay's government launched this week a package of seven price-cutting measures on goods and services aimed at containing, which rose to 8.2% in the first eight months of the year far above the annual target of 6.5%.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay surveying the Rive Plate for hydrocarbons

  

  In six months time Uruguay will have an idea if there are hydrocarbons in the River Plate Punta del Este basin, and based on this data move into the exploratory phase, announced Wednesday the chairman of the country's government managed oil company Ancap.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Russia after closer trade and political links with Mercosur

  Russia is interested in closer political and economic relations with Mercosur said on Wednesday Russian visiting acting Foreign Affairs minister Sergei Lavrov in Uruguay one of the several countries included in the current South American tour.

• Thursday, September 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina pulp mill dispute becomes silent entente

  

  Uruguay and Argentina seem to be silently working a way out from the controversy over the construction of a pulp mill on shared fluvial waters, which has been escalating for several years “overflowing” to the international and regional tribunals as well as the facilitating efforts of the Spanish Crown.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Central American airline picks Montevideo as regional hub

  

  Central American airline TACA announced this week the expansion of operations with two new routes linking Peru and Uruguay and San Salvador with the California city of Oakland. The flights will be officially inaugurated next October and November.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay's fisheries first half 2007 exports totaled 61.000 tons

  Uruguayan fisheries exports reached 105 million US dollars in the first half of this year, which represents a 13% increase over the same period a year ago according to Daniel Montiel, head of the Uruguay's Aquatic Resources Office, Dinara.

• Sunday, September 2nd 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine-Uruguay row heats up

  Hundreds of Argentine environmentalists crossed into Uruguay Sunday to protest a huge wood pulp plant near the border they say will pollute a river that feeds Argentine farms and tourist sites.

• Thursday, August 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina relations fall to bottom rock level

  

  To the backdrop of several dozen Argentine protesters in a flotilla of boats and dinghies, Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez on Wednesday inaugurated storage facilities and improved docks in a port serving a controversial new pulp mill built in Uruguay by Finnish pulp producer Botnia.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Illex squid season in Uruguay Argentina CFZ ends August 31

  The Illex squid season in the Uruguay/Argentina Common Fisheries Zone, CFZ, ends next August 31st, according to a release from the Maritime Front Joint Technical committee.

• Friday, August 17th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Botnia plant workers on strike demand better safety conditions

  

  Workers of the Botnia pulp mill in Uruguay voted Friday to continue the work stoppage begun Thursday, until next Monday alleging “insufficient guarantees”. This week several workers were intoxicated with sulphur sodium during trials at the plant, which is in the heart of an international controversy with Argentina.