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Montevideo, April 8th 2025 - 00:49 UTC

Uruguay

  • Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:05 UTC

    Rousseff offers Uruguay NDB financing opportunities

    “Uruguay is used to working with other historical entities, and this is very new,” Orsi said after meeting with Rousseff

    Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who now chairs the BRICS' New Development Bank (NDB) said Friday after meeting with Uruguay's President-elect Yamandú Orsi at the latter's transition headquarters that the South American country was “best positioned” to access financing at lower rates for digital, social infrastructure, and education developments.

  • Friday, December 27th 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Topolansky under investigation for false testimony in crimes against humanity cases

    Topolansky linked her comments to cases in Argentina and offered more information to the collective if they deemed it necessary

    The former vice-president of Uruguay, Lucía Topolansky, will be investigated by prosecutor Eliana Travers after her statements about alleged false testimonies in cases of crimes against humanity during the civil-military dictatorship in Uruguay. Topolansky's comments, made in the book “Los indomables” by journalist Pablo Cohen, generated widespread controversy, as she suggested that some statements in these cases would have been fabricated.

  • Thursday, December 26th 2024 - 08:45 UTC

    Brazil aerospace industry receives strong loans to promote manufacturing and exports

    Uruguay has ordered six A29 Super Tucano fighters

    Uruguay has received a small transport aircraft, Brasilia, from Embraer, the big neighbor’s aircraft manufacturer, and also has an order for six A29 Super Tucanos fighters. Brasilia is a small communal transport of up to thirty passengers, but that can also be used for ambulance and rescue operations.

  • Tuesday, December 24th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

    Uruguay's BCU ups basic interest rate

    Uruguay's core inflation was above target for two months in a row, the BCU warned

    Uruguay's Central Bank (BCU) Monetary Policy Committee decided Monday to raise the TPM benchmark interest rate from 8.5% to 8.75% in a move to make inflation and expectations “meet” at 4.5% annually over the last 24 months. It was the first twitch to the TPM since April when it was cut from from 9%.

  • Tuesday, December 24th 2024 - 10:16 UTC

    Uruguay: Topolansky says she will not recant

    “I cannot recant, since I knew what I said,” Topolansky stressed

    Former Uruguayan VicePresident and First Lady Lucía Topolansky Monday sent a letter to a group of relatives of people who disappeared during the military dictatorship saying she would not backtrack on saying that some witnesses had lied during the trials of those who committed these atrocities.

  • Monday, December 23rd 2024 - 23:05 UTC

    Andrés Ojeda chosen to chair Uruguay's Colorado Party

    Ojeda succeeds Colorado's iconic figure and former two-time Uruguayan President Julio María Sanguinetti

    Senator-elect Andrés Ojeda became the Uruguayan Colorado Party's new secretary-general in lieu of former two-time President Julio María Sanguinetti (1985-1990; 1995-2000), now aged 87. The 40-year-old Ojeda had jumped into the limelight when he ran for the presidency on Oct. 27 this year on behalf of the Colorado Party this year, clinching third place.

  • Friday, December 20th 2024 - 09:32 UTC

    Stipanicic resigns as president of Uruguay's Ancap

    “It is healthy to be able to close cycles when they come to an end,” Stipanicic said

    Alejandro Stipanicic's resignation Thursday as president of Uruguay's State-run oil company Ancap stirred up the political arena in Montevideo leading up to the transition towards the new government of President-elect Yamandú Orsi.

  • Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 16:58 UTC

    Controversy over Lucía Topolansky's statements on false testimonies in crimes against humanity

    Former President José 'Pepe' Mujica backed the statements made by Topolansky, his wife, to the press.

    The former vice-president of Uruguay, Lucía Topolansky, generated a strong controversy when she affirmed that some people lied before Justice in cases investigating crimes against humanity committed during the civil-military dictatorship. Her statements, made in an interview for the book Los indomables, have been criticized by victims, prosecutors and human rights organizations.

  • Thursday, December 19th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

    Uruguay: Unemployment falls in November

    Underemployment and informal work will pose a challenge for President-elect Orsi

    Unemployment in Uruguay fell to 7.2% of the Economically Active Population (EAP) last month, which represented a slight improvement from October’s 7.3%, according to the latest report from Montevideo's National Statistics Institute (INE) this week. It was the lowest figure since December 2021.

  • Wednesday, December 18th 2024 - 09:37 UTC

    Uruguay: Ancap oil pipeline leak hits key road

    The pipeline between Punta del Este and Ancap's refinery was not pumping oil at the time of the incident

    Uruguay's State-run oil company Ancap reported Tuesday a leak in an oil pipeline around the Biarritz (kilometer 71) on Costa de Oro in the department (province) of Canelones. The spill reached the highway causing delays in vehicle circulation for a while as stains of oil and sand were removed.