Tag: Montevideo

• Sunday, December 6th 2020 - 16:30 UTC

  Uruguayan ex-president Tabaré Vázquez has died

  

  Former Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez died on Sunday morning aged 80 from lung cancer, which he had been suffering from since 2019, in the final stretch of his second presidency. His successor, President Luis Lacalle Pou, announced three days of national mourning.

• Saturday, December 5th 2020 - 10:34 UTC

  Record Covid-19 infections in Uruguay: 1825 active cases

  

  Uruguay detected 284 new Covid-19 cases on Friday, reaching the record number of 1825 active cases, a few days after the barrier of a thousand cases was overcome and the government of Luis Lacalle Pou announced restrictive mobility measures last Monday.

• Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay authorities pledge to improve conditions for Spanish fishing vessels in port of Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan authorities have pledged to respond to complaints from the Spanish fleet fishing in the South Atlantic and which normally operates from the port of Montevideo where they call for supplies and cargo transshipments.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:21 UTC

  Municipal election in Uruguay: a woman the next mayor of Montevideo and an estimated 90% voters turnout

  

  The next mayor of Uruguay's capital is a woman, Carolina Cosse, an electronics engineer, who has worked in the private sector and more recently in government as head of Uruguay's telecom company and minister of industry.

• Saturday, September 26th 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Uruguay is winning against Covid-19: This is how

  

  by Luke Taylor, The British Medical Journal – Latin America continues to suffer some of the worst tolls of Covid-19, with over seven million recorded infections accounting for nearly half of all daily deaths. But in the region's Southern Cone there is a clear outlier wedged between Brazil to the east, with over 3.5 million confirmed cases, and Argentina to the west, with half a million.

• Friday, August 28th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  UK and Argentine ambassadors present credentials to Uruguayan president Lacalle Pou

  

  Six new ambassadors, including Faye O'Connor from UK, presented their Letters of Accreditation to Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou, during a ceremony at Government House on Thursday.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Korean trawler catches fire in Montevideo port and is towed out to the bay

  

  A Korean flagged trawler on Tuesday noon was towed away from Montevideo port docks to the bay after it caught fire fearing explosion threats from fuel and ammonia cylinders tanks.

• Thursday, April 16th 2020 - 10:59 UTC

  End of “Greg Mortimer” cruise ordeal: last fifteen passengers flying to US and UK

  

  The final leg of the humanitarian repatriation of passengers on board an Antarctic cruise, stranded in Uruguay and most of them testing positive for coronavirus, ended Wednesday afternoon when they boarded in Uruguay's Carrasco international airport a sanitary charter to Miami.

• Friday, April 3rd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Australian cruise vessel stranded in Montevideo; following medical checks, healthy passengers could be released

  

  Uruguay's foreign and public health ministers have said that none of the over 200 people on board the cruise vessel Greg Mortimer will be allowed to disembark in Montevideo for the moment since several passengers and crew members seem to have coronavirus symptoms.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine president Fernandez announces meeting with his Uruguayan peer Lacalle Pou

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez held a very positive phone conversation on Wednesday with Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou during which they analyzed the bilateral relation and the regional integration agenda.