Tag: Montevideo

• Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina pressing Uruguay on Falklands' RAF flights landing in Carrasco

  

  Argentina is again putting pressure on Uruguay, this time on the incoming government which takes office next March first, insisting no UK military aircraft linked to the Falkland Islands be allowed to land in the country's airports and Falklands should not be treated as state with which Uruguay has extensive trade and business exchanges.

• Thursday, February 13th 2020 - 10:10 UTC

  Bolsonaro-Alberto Fernandez summit and “cordial embrace” in Montevideo next March first

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed a meeting with his Argentine peer Alberto Fernandez on March first in Montevideo when Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou takes office. The information was announced by Argentine foreign minister Felipe Solá, after meeting president Bolsonaro for fifty minutes at his office in Brasilia.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Uruguayan navy seizes record haul of 4.4 tons of cocaine in the port of Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan authorities seized a record haul of 4.4 tons of cocaine at the port of Montevideo in what the navy described on Friday as “the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country's history.”

• Saturday, November 30th 2019 - 07:20 UTC

  Uruguay expects some 200 cruise calls this 2019/20 season

  

  Uruguay is expecting some 200 cruise calls this 2019/20 season, which is 30% higher than in 2018/19, while Montevideo has become an exchange port for incoming and outgoing cruise passengers, given its good services and connectivity, announced Tourism minister Liliam Kechichian during the official launching of the current season.

• Saturday, November 23rd 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Another major haul of cocaine in the port of Montevideo: three tons headed for the Canary Islands

  

  Uruguayan authorities this week confiscated over three tons of cocaine from an Africa-bound rice container in the port of Montevideo. The container was originally from Paraguay and was set to stop in Tenerife, the largest of Spain's Canary Islands off West Africa, before finally arriving in Cotonou, in southern Benin, the National Customs Directorate said in a statement.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2019 - 23:41 UTC

  Uruguay presidential elections: Lacalle Pou would widely win, according to polls

  

  After a long election campaign, Uruguayans live the last days before the second round of the presidential elections, which will take place on Sunday, November 24. The latest polls before the ballotage positions the nationalist Luis Lacalle Pou as the next president of the country, breaking the hegemony of the left that the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) imposed in the last 15 years.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay expects some 203 cruise calls this 2019/2020 season

  

  Uruguay is expecting 203 calls this coming 2019/20 cruise season, which represents an 11.6% increase over the previous season. The announcement was done by Tourism minister Liliam Kechichian during a conference on the cruise and tourism industry held in the Atlantic seaside of Punta del Este.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay farmers gathered in Montevideo to protest against the government: clashes with the police

  

  Horses, tractors and hundreds of rural producers from all over the country gathered in front of the Uruguay Parliament on Thursday to denounce the problems that the agricultural sector is experiencing and criticize the government for not listening to the proposals of the Un Solo Uruguay (One Uruguay) movement. The political, non-partisan movement brings together producers and actors of the rural environment and the interior of the country.

• Friday, August 30th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego protests Falklands display at the coming agricultural show in Uruguay

  

  The extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego has sent letters to the Foreign Ministry and to the Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic Department expressing concern about a Falkland Islands stand at the British pavilion in the coming international agriculture show in Prado, Montevideo, Uruguay to take place between September 3 and 15.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 16:23 UTC

  Amazon fires: Thousands of people protested in front of Brazilian embassies; Montevideo was not an exception

  

  Thousands of people gathered on Friday in front of Brazilian embassies in different cities around the world and Montevideo was no exception. Several hundred protesters, mostly young people, cut off busy Bulevar Artigas Avenue at the embassy of the Amazonian country, whose government is widely criticized for its environmental policies by countless NGOs around the world.