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Mon, 01 Mar 2021 08:58:00 GMT
Argo Pereira off to the Falklands for the squid season, after 16 days in Montevideo
The Red Ensign trawler Argos Pereira finally left on Saturday evening for the Falkland Islands to begin the squid season after spending 16 days in Montevideo because of an outbreak of Covid 19 on board, as reported by the Urugu...

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 18:21:00 GMT
Uruguay starts vaccination campaign on Monday counting 600 deaths due to Covid-19
Without a great media hype, the first 192,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac arrived in Montevideo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, a police operation was deployed throughout the da...

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:56:00 GMT
Uruguay starts inoculation campaign March first with Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines
Uruguay will be receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines next Thursday evening and the official inoculation campaign will begin on Monday March first. Over the weekend those in charge of vaccination will be the first to r...

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:07:00 GMT
Uruguay and Paraguay presidents meet to address Mercosur issues in an open agenda
Uruguay and Paraguay presidents, Luis Lacalle Pou and Mario Abdo Benítez will be holding an "open agenda" meeting on Wednesday in the Uruguayan international seaside resort of Punta del Este, where the Paraguayan leader arrive...

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:49:00 GMT
Argos Pereira Peruvian crew member hospitalized in Montevideo
One of the crew members from the Falklands bound trawler Argos Pereira, currently retained in Montevideo with 28 Covid-19 cases tested positive, had to be evacuated Monday afternoon and taken to a local hospital, because of fur...

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 08:47:00 GMT
Argos Pereira retained in Montevideo: 28 crew members tested Covid-19 positive
Red Ensign flagged trawler Argos Pereira which was heading for the Falkland Islands squid season, has been retained in the port of Montevideo after 28 of its 54 crew members tested positive to Covid-19, despite having complied ...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 09:55:00 GMT
Fernandez and Bolsonaro expected to share a family photo on the 30th anniversary of Mercosur
Argentine ambassador in Brazil, Daniel Scioli, has confirmed what was advanced by Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou during this week's meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro, a meeting of Mercosur heads of sta...

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:42:00 GMT
Uruguay, one the very few "full democracies" in the world, The Economist
Uruguay leads as one of four full democracies in the Americas, according to the Democracy Index 2020, published by The Economist. Uruguay scored 8,61 points out of a possible 10 and ranked fifteenth at world level, while the ot...

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:58:00 GMT
Lacalle Pou agreed with Bolsonaro in Brasilia to make Mercosur more flexible
The President of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, traveled overseas for the first time to meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, in a meeting in which they discussed the idea of "making Mercosur more flexible" and the possibil...

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:40:00 GMT
Uruguayan president will share lunch with Bolsonaro in Brasilia on Wednesday
Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou will be flying to Brasilia on Wednesday to share an informal lunch with his peer Jair Bolsonaro, his first overseas trip since taking office, but also a clear balancing act of the country's ...



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