Uruguay
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:45:00 GMTLacalle Pou gave an Uruguayan mare to the Emir of Qatar as a gift and left on Monday: Why is it important?
This Monday, a Criollo horse that the Uruguayan President, Luis Lacalle Pou, promised to send as a gift to the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left Uruguay for Qatar. Last February, the South American president offered...
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:31:00 GMTUruguayan Higher Court upholds rejecting Pepín's asylum request
A Montevideo Court of Appeals has denied Fabián “Pepín” Rodríguez Simón's asylum request, it was announced Monday.
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:24:00 GMTUruguay records coldest, driest June in decades
Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported Monday that this year's was the coldest June in the last 41 years "with a countrywide anomaly of -2.3°C."
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 08:38:00 GMTPAHO supports Uruguayan Health Ministry in vax judicial ruling
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has sent a letter of support to Uruguay's Health Minister Daniel Salinas after a judge ordered all vaccination of children under 13 years of age against COVID-19 be halted in the coun...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:10:00 GMTUruguayan gov't to appeal ruling banning C-19 vax for U-13 people
Uruguayan Health Ministry (MSP) legal advisors are to submit Monday an appeal to Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision to suspend vaccination against COVID-19 of people aged, it was reported in Montevideo.
Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:03:00 GMTUruguay Central Bank raised interest rate policy 50 basis point to 9,75%
Uruguay's Central Bank of Uruguay this week ordered a 50 basis point increase in the interest rate policy, the eighth straight increase since last August. The move, which brings the monetary policy rate to 9.75%, means the cent...
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 09:47:00 GMTUruguayan official says judge's ruling on vax was “nonsense”
Uruguay's Presidential Secretary Álvaro Delgado Thursday admitted that “rulings are obeyed, but they can be criticized and this ruling is nonsense.” He made those remarks after Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey ordered vac...
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:58:00 GMTA judge in Uruguay has prohibited Covid vaccines for children; Health Ministry complies with the ruling
In a Montevideo court, judge Alejandro Recarey notified his final ruling on the appeal for protection filed to stop the vaccination against covid-19 in minors under 13 years of age in Uruguay.
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:20:00 GMTArgentina and Uruguay agree on temporary ban to hake fishing
The Joint Technical Commission of the Maritime Front of Argentina and Uruguay has issued a temporary ban on hake catching due to the “concentration of juvenile specimens” that “it is necessary to protect,” it was announ...
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 10:10:00 GMTDemonstration against Pfizer vaccines staged in Montevideo amidst court hearing
A group of Uruguayan anti-vaccine protesters gathered Wednesday at the courthouse doorstep in support of Surrogate Judge Alejandro Recarey's decision earlier this week to request information from the Health Ministry (MSP) and t...