Uruguay

• Friday, August 29th 2025 - 09:52 UTC

  Uruguay and Brazil sign across-the-border health agreement

  

  Health Ministers Cristina Lustemberg of Uruguay and Alexandre Padilha of Brazil have signed an agreement to create a binational health commission to improve healthcare services in their border regions.

• Wednesday, August 27th 2025 - 10:27 UTC

  Uruguay: Falkor resumes mission after repairs

  

  The Uruguay Sub200 expedition has resumed its study of the Uruguayan continental seabed after a technical fault forced its research vessel, the Falkor, to return to the port of Montevideo. By late Tuesday, the Falkor was due in Punta del Este.

• Tuesday, August 26th 2025 - 09:21 UTC

  Research vessel Falkor (too) halts Uruguay expedition after technical failure

  

  The Falkor (too), research vessel of the Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), returned to Montevideo on Monday after suffering a malfunction in the early days of its “Visualizing the Deep off Uruguay” (Uruguay SUB200) expedition.

• Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 09:37 UTC

  Uruguay marks centenary of Legislative Palace with new LED lighting

  

  Montevideo inaugurated on Friday a modern lighting system for the Legislative Palace as part of the celebrations marking the building’s 100th anniversary. More than 250 LED lights have been installed on the exterior, featuring energy-efficient technology and automated control.

• Friday, August 22nd 2025 - 10:14 UTC

  Uruguayan fishing boats set sail after long union conflict

  

  After an 80-day conflict between labor groupings and Uruguayan businesspeople, some fishing boats set sail on Thursday, with one captain stating that his crew consisted of “trusted personnel” who were not part of the union's online recruitment effort, as the PIT-CNT unions issued a statement affirming that work would resume with the usual crews.

• Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 20:02 UTC

  New Covid-19 variants detected in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has confirmed the circulation in the country of the new Covid-19 “Frankenstein” (XFG) and “Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) variants. The discovery was made through the country's genomic surveillance system after analyzing samples from sentinel centers.

• Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 10:25 UTC

  Scientists on a joint expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”

  

  This Next Friday August 22nd, R/V Falkor (too) from the California based Schmidt Ocean Institute, departs with a team of scientists from Uruguay’s main University for a month long expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”.

• Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 06:45 UTC

  Liberal Uruguay and the right to die (legal assisted dying), The Economist

  

  Pablo Canepa was a normal, healthy 35-year-old Uruguayan. Handsome and extroverted, he was a talented graphic designer who loved to host barbecues with his girlfriend and was fanatical about Nacional, a local football team. Taking a shower in March 2022, he suddenly felt dizzy. He thought little of it.

• Wednesday, August 20th 2025 - 10:33 UTC

  Uruguay assumes the Brasilia Consensus' rotating presidency

  

  Foreign Ministers Mario Lubetkin of Uruguay and María Gabriela Sommerfeld of Ecuador participated Tuesday at Montevideo's Torre Ejecutiva in the handover ceremony of the Brasilia Consensus' rotating presidency.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 19:48 UTC

  Uruguay and Ecuador sign cooperation agreements

  

  Presidents of Ecuador and Yamandú Orsi of Uruguay on Tuesday signed two bilateral agreements in Montevideo, increasing cooperation and intelligence sharing. The understanding involves the two countries' Ministries of Interior and Defense.