Should the FA formula does not accept the debate, the white formula will make an “open hearing” in which media will nominate journalists and social and trade union leaders to ask about the PN proposals.
“They have spent more than four months saying that they would debate and when we agree to be there they go [...]

“We anticipate that Uruguay will come out fine with the ruling”, said Reichler who visited the Botnia pulp mill in Fray Bentos which has been in production for two years.
However this “does not mean that Argentina will be left in an uncomfortable position”.
Reichler quoted by the Uruguayan press said the ruling will most probably state [...]

Victor Lissidini, former director of Dirección Nacional de Aduanas (Customs) said that he knew that in 2002 Saúl Feldman was on a list of 10 people linked to arms trade, but he was not allowed to investigate further. Now Lissidini has been removed from office for usurpation.
According to Lissidini, it was something “that could not [...]

Jorge Larrañaga, PN vice presidential candidate, was sorry to see that Mujica did not accept debating. He said that the FA candidate is hiding and that he is not a man of his word.
According to Larrañaga, the debate was essential to let Uruguayans know what each candidate thinks about “security, employment, health, education, and foreign [...]

Botnia now meets two years of activity in Uruguay, but not all celebration. Argentine experts say the plant emits nonylphenol, a chemical capable of altering the hormonal system in mammals and fish. Since the dynamo is rejected the report.
An article published yesterday in the Argentine daily Pagina 12 reported a report of experts from Argentina, [...]

Luis Alberto Lacalle, presidential candidate of Partido Nacional (PN), declared to the website of the Argentinian newspaper Clarín that the weapons found in Montevideo and Shangrilá are not an isolated fact of the political scenario: “I have elements to suspect that the 700 weapons found some days ago do have political connotations”.
Frente Amplio presidential candidate, [...]

Julio Marenales appeared in court before judge Jorge Díaz, after having been summoned by Uruguay former president Jorge Batlle to explain his relationship with Saúl Feldman and the arsenal found in Aires Puros and Shangrilá. He said that he has no relationship at all with Feldman and asked for a psychiatrical assessment involving Jorge Battle.
Marenales [...]

Accountant Saúl Feldman’s case remains unsolved. According to the authorities’ statement, the man who died in a shooting in his own house in Shangrilá (Canelones) after killing a policeman and wounding two had neither political nor religious affiliation. The said house had an armored room, where 700 weapons were found, some not even used by [...]

Former Industry Minister and current Socialist Party Senator, Daniel Martínez, said the Frente Amplio is the best in all areas and the Nacional and Colorado parties are “an old model of pure discourse, of talking about modernity and being nearly feudal when administering policy.”
Martinez criticized the current system of runoff elections, which allows “someone with [...]

Controversy arose after a report of a daily in Montevideo said the Environmental Board had denounced that Argentina had “adulterated documents” on environmental analysis that were presented before the international court, currently analyzing the dispute over the construction of the Botnia plant on the Uruguayan side of a jointly managed river.
Argentina filed a complaint before [...]

Legatum Prosperity points out that the most prosperous nations in the world are not necessarily those that have only a high GDP, “but are those that also have happy, healthy, and free citizens”.
According to the ranking Costa Rica figures in position 32, Uruguay, 33, Chile, 36 and Argentina, 38. Others in Latinamerica include Brazil, 41; [...]

The Uruguayan company has an agreement with Chile’s Sky Cargo and has twice a week nightly flights. Sky cargo provides the logistics and commercial infrastructure. Flights are scheduled to arrive 04:00 in the morning and return to Santiago an hour later.
The team up of the two airlines is based on an open skies agreement between [...]

The World Bank has provided Uruguay with USD 29.9 million in funding for the establishment of full-time schools. With this funding, 47,000 students in public schools will attend “full time”, as stipulated in the project.
The project seeks to lower repeats by 30% and improve language and math skills for sixth graders. Currently, 130 schools are [...]

A law in Uruguay that has allowed the police and military to get away with torture and murder should be annulled, Amnesty International said on Monday, as the country prepares to vote in a referendum on the future of the law.
The law — Ley de Caducidad de la Pretencion Punitiva del Estado, or Expiry Law [...]

Oct 21 (Reuters) – A conservative former president and an ex-guerrilla fighter face off in Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday, both vowing to maintain market-friendly policies that have made it one of the most stable economies in Latin America.
Leftist Sen. Jose Mujica is leading the polls, but the former guerrilla is not expected to win [...]

The seminar at the Doubletree Miami Mart and Convention Center will cover the advantages of Uruguayan free port laws and the free zones, the logistical advantages of trading through Uruguay with Mercosur and the cost benefits of Uruguay’s low tariffs and service fees.
A group of private companies will join a team of government officials from [...]

Presidential hopeful Jose Mujica who has had trouble lately for speaking out his mind and soul heartily embraced with President Tabare Vazquez before tens of photographers and television camera-men, at the beginning and the end of a protocol ceremony which turned into a political milestone
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Uruguay’s Navy academy schooner Capitan Miranda was returning from a 270 [...]

The Monday unconstitutional ruling comes ahead of next Sunday’s presidential election which also includes a referendum to decide on the annulment of the law which was approved by Congress in 1986 and confirmed by a referendum in 1989.
The Supreme Court ruling only applies to the investigation into the 1974 death in a military barrack of [...]

According to the Central Bank, the 12 private banks operating in Uruguay had nearly USD 5 million in losses in September due to decreased financial activity . In the first nine months of the year, six banks in Uruguay reported losses totaling approximately USD 25 million. Banco Santander has had the highest income in the [...]

Yesterday in the town of Santiago Vázquez, police seized 2,000 kilos of cocaine on a yacht. It was the biggest blow to drug trafficking in the history of Uruguay. The operation was conducted in conjunction with the Navy and the Montevideo Police Narcotics Unit, in collaboration with investigators from Argentina, Serbia and the U.S. DEA.
A [...]