Spaniard actor Antonio de La Torre is part of the cast from the movie Memorias del calabozo (Dungeon Memories), directed by the Uruguayan Alvaro Brechner, and adapted from the same titled book wrote by Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro. The actor was in Uruguay and talked with Mujica, Henry Hengler and Fernández Huidobro among other former Tupamaros [...]
The Ballet Nacional Sodre (BNS) enchanted audiences and critics in his debut tour in Spain. This is the first time a South American ballet tours Spain. The tour includes 15 performances in the renowned Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and Teatros del Canal in Madrid. This is the first time that a South American [...]
La Scala counts a 14-minute ovation for restored Butterfly. Maria José Siri performance was praised by public and critic. The annual opera opening at the legendary La Scala has been pronounced a triumph. Riccardo Chailly version of Puccini’s original Madam Butterfly, was acclaimed both inside then opera house and outside by watchers on a giant [...]
His piece Thebas Land is a success in London. The play Thebas Land by Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco received two nominations in the Off West End Awards (also known as The Offies) in the categories Best New Play and Best Set Designer. The winners will be known in February at the award ceremony. The play [...]
The Uruguayan scientist Rafael Radi received the 2016 Mexico Science and Technology Award (Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología), one of the most important scientific awards in Ibero-America. This distinction granted by Mexico’s president is given since 1990 “to a person of recognized professional prestige who has made a significant contribution to universal scientific knowledge [...]
According to the 2016 Uruguayan Internet-User Profile, eight among ten Uruguayans are internet users and the digital divide is declining in the different segments of the population. Without smartphones, mobile internet or social networks. If you close your eyes and imagine you are in the beginning of the 2000 decade, you would find a world [...]
Óscar Washington Tabárez, coach of the Uruguayan national team is presently the first on the list of football coaches with most games that have managed one national team. With Uruguay’s last match against Chile on November 15 for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, he reaches the record hold by Sepp Herberger (167) and Morten [...]
Uruguayan foreign affairs minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa concluded a visit to South Korea, where he agreed with his counterpart Yun Byung-se to promote negotiations about a free-trade area agreement (FTA) between the Asian country and the Mercosur bloc. The South Korean chancellor asked Nin to “play a key role” at trying to promote a dialogue [...]
The new sectoral brand Logistic Uruguay was officially presented, which now joins the country brand Uruguay Natural, with the strength of a thriving sector and a strategic partner in the task of positioning our country in the world. The brand was promoted by Instituto Uruguay XXI in coordination with the National Institute of Logistics (INALOG). [...]
Accompanied by a large delegation of ministers, businessmen and union leaders Uruguayan president Tabaré Vázquez concluded an historic visit to China, which included diverse treaties and the study of a China-Uruguay free trade agreement. Uruguayan President Tabaré Vazquez made a twelve-day visit with ministers to several Chinese cities, which included meetings with Beijing leading officials [...]
A social study from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) entitled Social Pulse in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016: Realities & Perspectives, says that Uruguay is the country with the biggest middle class in the region and explains the reasons why. The IDB report about realities and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean, indicates [...]
A better performance in entrepreneurship human capital, cultural conditions and public policies explains the improvement. Uruguay is ranked in the fourth place at a regional level and 39 in a global level in the Systemic Conditions for Dynamic Entrepreneurship ranking, made by the Entrepreneur Development Program (Prodem) of the General Sarmiento University (Argentina). This report, [...]
