Tag: Luis Lacalle Pou

• Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 19:31 UTC

  IMF: Uruguay's economy will fall 3% in 2020; Latin America's, 5.2%

  

  According to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Uruguayan economy will decrease by 3% this 2020. The “great closure” has been how the international body has defined, as the title of its World Economic Outlook, government measures against the global pandemic caused by the COVID-19.

• Thursday, March 19th 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Coronavirus: Mercosur members coordinate actions and frontier movements

  

  Mercosur country members agreed on Wednesday to share information and statistics on the coronavirus evolution as part of a common strategy destined to combat the pandemic, which included facilitating the return of ex-pats and ensuring the movement of goods among the block.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  Dispatch from Uruguay: “Democracy or Bureaucracy & Mediocrity”

  

  By David P. Michaels (*) - Luis-Alberto Lacalle Pou, Uruguay’s recently inaugurated President, faces one of the most significant challenges in Uruguay’s recent history.

• Saturday, March 14th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Uruguay confirms first four tested cases of coronavirus, all arrived from Italy

  

  Uruguay confirmed its first four tested cases of coronavirus on Friday, the Ministry of Health announced in a tweet. All four cases were people who had arrived to Uruguay from Milan, Italy between March 3 and March 6, the ministry said, adding that the patients are stable and at their homes.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Uruguay abandons Unasur and rejoins the TIAR reciprocal assistance treaty

  

  The Uruguayan government announced on Tuesday that it was withdrawing from the Union of South American Nations, Unasur and returning to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, TIAR.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Donald Trump talks to Uruguayan president Lacalle Pou

  

  Uruguayan president Luis Lacalle Pou had his first contact with US President Donald Trump last Saturday, reported White House, special advisor, Judd Deere in a tweet.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Uruguay: Interreligious prayer with Lacalle Pou on his first day as president

  

  Surrounded by security and stopped by some parishioners who asked for a photo, the new president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou and part of his cabinet walked this Monday in the middle aisle of Montevideo’s Cathedral, to an interfaith ceremony held to pray for the new government.

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 10:06 UTC

  Government rotation in democratic Uruguay: business as usual

  

  It was a March sunny Sunday in Montevideo, and for the solid democracy of Uruguay, business as usual. An outgoing center government was replaced by a center-right coalition that emerged victorious from the runoff last November. Despite fifteen years in office, three mandates, Luis Lacalle Pou, 46, is the new president for the next five years and for the first time with a woman vice president, notary Beatriz Argimón.

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  New Uruguayan president promises to crack down on crime and promote a true fiscal rule

  

  A center right president took office in Uruguay on Sunday, promising to crack down on crime and tighten government finances after a 15-year string of left-leaning governments. Luis Lacalle Pou, a 46-year-old surfing enthusiast and son of a former president, narrowly won the election in November, 37.000 votes, in his second try for the top office.

• Monday, March 2nd 2020 - 06:50 UTC

  Foreign Office official visits Argentina to address a long agenda including Falklands

  

  Wendy Morton, the foreign office minister of European Neighborhood and the Americas arrives this Monday to Buenos Aires to meet with members of the Kirchner government, who over the weekend announced a new more demanding and aggressive Argentine policy referred to the Falklands and South Atlantic Islands sovereignty claim.