Full Coverage: Uruguay

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

07.11.2007 Uruguay is the first country to place an official order for child-friendly laptops from the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and Peru looks set to follow.

07.11.2007 Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay will co-host a UN event to gather support for a proposed charter that would counter worldwide human rights abuses against gay people.
From: Human Rights Watch

21.05.2007 The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) - one of the largest anti-poverty movements - has added climate change to its core agenda after a lengthy and a heated debate.

19.12.2006 GUALEGUAYCHU, Argentina, Dec 18 (IPS) - With a nativity scene and a big Christmas tree set up on the highway to the nearby bridge leading to Uruguay, residents of the Argentine town of Gualeguaychu plan to continue blocking traffic between the two countries until a pulp plant being built on the other side of the river moves elsewhere.

18.11.2006 MONTEVIDEO, Nov 18 (IPS) - Juan Maria Bordaberry, who staged the 1973 coup that ushered in a 12-year military dictatorship in Uruguay, is now in prison in connection with the 1976 assassination of two legislators who were living in exile in Argentina. His foreign minister, Juan Carlos Blanco, is also under arrest.

06.10.2006 Despite the difficulties of the U.S. Congress to pass Free Trade Agreements (FTA) due to the November congressional elections, the Bush administration remains firm in its strategy to push them in Latin America.

15.09.2006 In the near future thousand welders and fitters will travel from Finland and other European countries to Uruguay to work at the construction site of BotniaÂ’s pulp mill. The supply of Uruguayan labour needed for the high quality welding and fitting work demanded by a pulp process, is far too small, Marko Janhonen, the projectÂ’s communication and PR vice president, argues.

22.06.2006 Journalists, media entrepreneurs, government and civil society representatives, academics, and students met last week in UNESCOÂ’s Montevideo Office to analyze and evaluate the situation of media, development and poverty reduction in Uruguay and the region, and to make recommendations for UNESCOÂ’s action in this context.

05.04.2006 Local Argentines are outraged over what they believe to be a looming environmental disaster being built on the other side of their country's border with Uruguay.

25.10.2005 O caso do desaparecimento da nora do poeta argentino Juan Gelman, María Claudia García de Gelman, durante a ditadura uruguaia, continua sem solução. Além dos restos mortais ainda não terem sido encontrados, como prometeu o presidente uruguaio Tabaré Vázquez, agora o governo argentino decidiu pedir a extradição dos militares acusados pelo seqüestro.

04.10.2005 MONTEVIDEO, Oct 3 (IPS) - The construction of two pulp mills in Uruguay has put this small South American country at the centre of the global debate among environmentalists, scientific researchers and large corporations on what is the most effective and cleanest technique for producing paper.

25.08.2005 In cooperation with the "Universidade de la Republica Oriental de Uruguay”, UNESCO Montevideo and the National Library of Uruguay will organise in Montevideo, Uruguay from 29 August - 2 September 2005, a training course for MERCOSUR countries on the creation of digital libraries.

29.06.2005 "Honoring diversity is honoring life. Montevideo for the respect of all genders, sexual identities and orientations," reads a triangular granite monument in the heart of Uruguay's capital city. The monument, which acknowledges the right of sexual diversity, is the first of its kind in Latin America.

01.03.2005 Amanhã a América Latina verá reunida em Montevidéu a esquerda política do continente, por ocasião da posse do novo presidente do Uruguai, o socialista Tabaré Vazquez. Uma data histórica para os uruguaios, marcando o início de um governo que não está nas mãos dos conservadores do Partido Colorado ou do Partido Nacional. Nas palavras do mais famoso escritor uruguaio, Eduardo Galeano, estes dois partidos estão se revezando há tanto tempo no poder, que já formaram uma chapa única.

15.11.2004

Tabare Vazquez

Over 60% of Uruguayans supported a constitutional amendment guaranteeing water as a human right in recent voting. The country also chose Tabare Vazquez, who opposes the Free Trade Area of the Americas, to be the new president.

02.11.2004 O socialista Tabaré Vázquez ganhou neste domingo a Presidência do Uruguai no primeiro turno, com 50,69%, segundo resultados oficiais divulgados nesta segunda-feira pela Corte Eleitoral, depois de apurados 100% dos votos.
Em: Folha Online

02.11.2004 Le socialiste Tabaré Vazquez, élu dimanche président de l'Uruguay, a proclamé la victoire historique de sa coalition de gauche et annoncé qu'il va commencer immédiatement à préparer son investiture, prévue pour début mars 2005.

02.11.2004 Uruguay's first leftwing president in its 170-year history yesterday celebrated his election victory, consolidating a political swing to the left across South America.

28.10.2004 Les uruguayiens avons tendance à croire que notre pays existe, mais le monde ne s'en rend pas compte. Les grands médias de communication, ceux qui ont une influence universelle, ne mentionnent jamais cette très petite nation, perdue au sud de la carte du monde.