government of Uruguay

The ambassador also signalled that the Southern Common Market, or Mercosur, of which Argentina was a founding member, was open to the idea of a free-trade deal with China. Earlier this year the Uruguayan government told the Chinese it would try to “convince its Mercosur partners of the importance of ...

(Unofficial translation). “The Government of Uruguay expresses its deep concern for the rise in violence in Syria, including the bombings of this early morning against objectives under suspicion of producing chemical weapons. […] The Government of Uruguay calls all the actors involved in the conflict to act ...

Last summer, the Uruguayan government allowed sixteen pharmacies around the country to begin selling government-grown pot for adult recreational use. Within the first month of sales, many of these pharmacies received letters from their banks notifying them that their accounts would be closed if they ...

The Uruguayan government and the socialist and communist parties in Uruguay condemned on Wednesday Israel killing of at least 16 Palestinians on the Gaza border on Friday while Palestinians were holding peaceful rally marking Land Day. In a statement, the government of Uruguay joined the call ...

The Uruguayan government is upset with the administration of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez because it has delayed authorization for Paraguayan electricity to transit Argentinean territory to energy-poor Uruguay. Montevideo will…

Chile, unfortunately, was not able to participate because of a contagious disease outbreak at a training center that prompted the Uruguayan government to temporarily ban the import of horses from that country. The victory by Roman Rosso comes at a time when Argentina's racing and breeding industry are ...

9, the Uruguayan government announced distribution of nonmedical psychoactive cannabis would be halted for at least a week because of operative difficulties of the licensed producers. Farmacia La Cabina, one of the 12 pharmacies that sells recreational cannabis, uses a green, yellow or red square as ...

In La Profesora, Tachi, a young teacher, is fired for a lesson she gives to her class on the Uruguayan government's summary execution of a university student. As a fact, U.S.-backed 1970s South American death squads are a depressing commonplace. It's hard to imagine in 2018 someone hired to bring a ...

In one recent case, Philip Morris sued the government of Uruguay, claiming that its packaging laws violated an investment treaty with Switzerland. Explore further: Big Tobacco must be 'held accountable': Michael Bloomberg. Journal reference: Tobacco Control · search and more info · website. shares.

“The GOU [government of Uruguay] has made virtually every move we have desired in the narcotics field,” reads a memo dated November 26, 1974, sent from the U.S. embassy in Montevideo to the DEA offices in Washington (WikiLeaks). It was during the mid-noughties that Uruguay started showing ...

MONTEVIDEO – Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez met on Monday with representatives of the rural agricultural sectors to announce measures “to be implemented immediately” that will begin to resolve the conflict with farmers that erupted in early January. After meeting behind closed doors at the presidential residence ...

Mujica said the problem was not small farmers unable to make ends meet, but rather land ownership, since this is highly concentrated in few hands The Uruguayan government needs to sustain the “investment grade” to have easy and cheap access to funds to meet its ongoing budget deficit. A policy of a ...

Although Uruguay is well positioned internationally when it comes to corruption perception, it is considered among the least corrupt together with Chile in Latin America by Transparency International and LatinoBarometer, a public opinion poll published the last week of 2017 in Montevideo seems to show ...

That admission is part of a package of bills drafted by the executive branch of the Uruguayan government with the express purpose of improving the lives of trans people. In 2016, a government census found that 873 Uruguayans identify as transgender. The census also found that 75 percent of the trans ...

... 2018 (WAFA) - The Uruguayan government and the socialist and communist parties in Uruguay condemned on Wednesday Israel killing of at least 16 Palestinians on the Gaza border on Friday while Palestinians were holding peaceful rally marking Land Day. In a statement, the government of Uruguay ...

In February of this year, ICC “applied to the Government of Uruguay for approval to commence the assembly of a 1 million square foot greenhouse on government land” which they anticipate will have “an annual yield of 120 million grams of dry flower” for export to “various countries including Germany, ...

The Inter-American Association of Telecommunications Companies (ASIET) has issued a statement urging the Uruguayan government to finally allow the operator Claro Uruguay (America Movil) to offer pay-TV services after a court ruled that its DTH licence is valid. At the end of 2017 the country's civil ...