Uruguay
Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:49:00 GMTInternational Women's Day was particularly defiant and even violent in Latin America
Tens of thousands on Monday defied coronavirus restrictions, gathering worldwide on International Women's Day to denounce gender violence and inequalities.
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 08:57:00 GMTDramatic Covid-19 situation in Southern Brazil threatens Rivera, Uruguay
Uruguay is very concerned, and threatened, by the situation in the city of Rivera, bordering the Brazilian city of Santana do Livramento, Rio Grande do Sul state, where the number of infections is alarming and continues to grow...
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 08:30:00 GMTAmerican Airlines cancels routes from the US to Montevideo and Santiago
American Airlines has extended the suspension and cancellation of numerous international flights including to regions that have not yet been severely impacted by the coronavirus, such as Latin America. The Fort-Worth-based airl...
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:21:00 GMTUruguay: Pepe Mujica says the pandemic helped Lacalle Pou’s government
The former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica criticized the government of Luis Lacalle Pou and assured that the Covid-19 pandemic “helped” to improve his image. ”The pandemic is white (in reference to the color ...
Wed, 03 Mar 2021 09:56:00 GMTUruguayan president addresses Congress and anticipates a year of structural reforms
Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou addressed Congress on Tuesday to report on his first year and one day in office, underlining the extraordinary 2020 pandemic year which surprised the world, and Uruguay, but he also made sev...
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:58:00 GMTArgo Pereira off to the Falklands for the squid season, after 16 days in Montevideo
The Red Ensign trawler Argos Pereira finally left on Saturday evening for the Falkland Islands to begin the squid season after spending 16 days in Montevideo because of an outbreak of Covid 19 on board, as reported by the Urugu...
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:21:00 GMTUruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19
Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the da...
Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:56:00 GMTUruguay starts inoculation campaign March first with Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines
Uruguay will be receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines next Thursday evening and the official inoculation campaign will begin on Monday March first. Over the weekend those in charge of vaccination will be the first to r...
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:07:00 GMTUruguay and Paraguay presidents meet to address Mercosur issues in an open agenda
Uruguay and Paraguay presidents, Luis Lacalle Pou and Mario Abdo Benítez will be holding an "open agenda" meeting on Wednesday in the Uruguayan international seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the Paraguayan leader arrive...
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:49:00 GMTArgos Pereira Peruvian crew member hospitalized in Montevideo
One of the crew members from the Falklands bound trawler Argos Pereira, currently retained in Montevideo with 28 Covid-19 cases tested positive, had to be evacuated Monday afternoon and taken to a local hospital, because of fur...