Uruguay

• Saturday, December 2nd 2023 - 11:19 UTC

  Spotify exiting Uruguay as of February

  

  The global music and podcast streaming service Spotify Friday warned its Uruguayan users that the platform would be leaving the South American country shortly citing “drastic changes in the way music works” locally and that no new accounts can be opened after Dec. 28, it was reported in Montevideo.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 10:24 UTC

  Lacalle Pou optimistic about Milei's future government

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Thursday that this might change foreign relations with Javier Milei's government in Argentina: “We have not been lucky in foreign relations” but, with the Libertarian leader, “the region is changing and we are going to take advantage of it,” Lacalle stressed.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:46 UTC

  Uruguayan national among those released by Hamas

  

  Uruguayan national Shani Goren Horovitz was among the eight hostages released by the terrorist group Hamas Thursday in exchange for yet another batch of 30 prison inmates from Israeli jails, Qatari government sources confirmed.

• Friday, December 1st 2023 - 09:46 UTC

  Uruguayan scientific, military team flies to Antarctica

  

  A group of over 40 Uruguayan military and scientific personnel were flown to Antarctica aboard an Ururuguayan Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft in a move to promote 14 projects in the areas of geosciences, life sciences, social and human sciences, as well as environmental monitoring, it was reported Thursday in Montevideo.

• Thursday, November 30th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

  Uruguay and Paraguay take action to prevent equine encephalomyelitis

  

  Paraguayan and Uruguayan health authorities have been reported to be taking preventive measures regarding a possible outbreak of equine encephalomyelitis.

• Wednesday, November 29th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Lacalle Herrera wishes Milei all the best

  

  During his recent trip to the beach resort and port of Mar del Plata, former Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera (1990-1995), the father of the current head of state Luis Lacalle Pou, wished Javier Milei all the best because “a prosperous, fair, orderly and rich Argentina is the best business for Uruguay.”

• Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Uruguay's population aging and shrinking were it not for immigrants

  

  Uruguay's National Institute of Statistics (INE) announced Monday in Montevideo that there were 3,444,263 people living in the South American country, a meager 1% growth from 2011 figures. Were it not for immigration, the Uruguayan population would have contracted, it was explained.

• Monday, November 27th 2023 - 09:02 UTC

  Uruguayan congressman takes leave of absence amid harassment allegations

  

  Uruguayan Broad Front (Frente Amplio - FA) Congressman Gustavo Olmos was reported to have incurred in sexual and labor harassment, according to a complaint filed against him by his substitute Martina Casás, it was reported Sunday in Montevideo.

• Saturday, November 25th 2023 - 10:21 UTC

  Uruguayan Navy seizes Brazilian boat fishing illegally

  

  Uruguay's Navy has captured a Brazilian-flagged fishing vessel carrying some three tons of illegal catch, it was reported Friday in Montevideo.

• Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 08:31 UTC

  Uruguay, China deepen bilateral ties

  

  President Luis Lacalle Pou of Uruguay and Xi Jinping of China Wednesday announced after meeting in Beijing that new steps toward a bilateral free trade deal had been agreed upon.