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Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:34:00 GMT
Sustainability: Uruguay the example to follow, World Bank says
Anna Wellenstein, Director of the World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean, Sustainable Development Group, has said Uruguay was an example of turning its productions towards a market that will seek environmental guidelines ...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:00:00 GMT
Unexpected call of Viking Jupiter to Uruguay; she's scheduled to visit the Falkland Islands
The Atlantic coast resort Punta del Este received on Saturday the first cruise vessel since the start of the pandemic. The expedition cruise Viking Jupiter was scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but since it had stopped at Ca...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Labour strife in port of Montevideo; increasing export volumes shipped from Rio Grande in Brazil
Recurrent labour strife in the port of Montevideo is not only frustrating but is also seriously limiting activities, and only this week did the Union of Uruguayan exporters make public a release regretting the fact that several...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 09:21:00 GMT
Uruguay is ending what is a promising year despite the pandemic and some long standing challenges
Despite the pandemic, with its limitations and successes, Uruguay is ending what looks, according to the latest reports on jobs, exports, bond issuing and even inflation, like a positive year.

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:17:00 GMT
Uruguayan President to spend Christmas in Congo
Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou has announced Thursday he would be spending Christmas in Congo, on an official visit to members of his country's Armed Forces stationed there on a United Nations peacekeeping mission.

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:08:00 GMT
Former GACH members urge Uruguayans to take third doses of vaccine
Former members of Uruguay's Honorary Scientific Advisory Group (GACH) have recommended a third dose of vaccine against COVID-19 in addition to inoculating children aged 5 to 11.

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:58:00 GMT
Uruguay's strategy against Omicron is to just be alert, President says
Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday said his Government had no specific strategy against the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, other than “being alert.”

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:23:00 GMT
Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site
The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces a...

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:12:00 GMT
Canadian rating agency praises Uruguay's fiscal consolidation and raises BBB- trend from stable to positive
Canadian credit rating agency, DBRS Morningstar confirmed Uruguay's Long-Term Foreign and Local-Currency – Issuer Ratings at BBB-, and at the same time, elevated its prospect from stable to positive.

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 23:37:00 GMT
Lacalle ratifies Uruguay's stance regarding Mercosur opening up to the world
Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou has insisted Mercosur needed modernizing and it is along those lines that his country was seeking one-on-one free-trade deals with the United States and China



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