Uruguay Integra, the OPP Program for Social and Territorial Cohesion, has signed 10 new agreements for the execution of projects of social interest in the country’s rural interior. Initiatives include health care, training programs for young and women job seekers, and the improvement of habitat and coexistence. The Uruguayan Government and the European Union (EU) [...]
On a visit to Uruguay, Enrique Iglesias, the current Secretary-General of the Ibero-AmericanCooperation Secretariat, said that Uruguay is seen internationally as a ‘serious and respected’ country, and he praised the ‘political maturity’ and the ‘productive revolution’ of recent years. Secretary-General Enrique Iglesias highlighted the ‘seriousness’ with which the Uruguayan economic and financial system is considered [...]
Uruguay will have a record presence at ANUGA 2013, the largest food fair in the world, to be held in October in Cologne, Germany. Uruguay confirmed it will have a record presence at ANUGA 2013, the largest food fair in the world. Uruguayan companies and exhibitors representing the different areas of the food and beverage [...]
A group of Uruguayan specialists designed a test that can determine the sex of a baby from the seventh week of gestation; pregnancy can be confirmed from the fourth week onwards. Sixty women have taken the test since it was introduced one month ago. When a woman learns that she is pregnant the first thing [...]
The experiment Another blow against prohibition AFTER more than a year’s public deliberation and a 14-hour parliamentary debate, on July 31st Uruguay took a big step to becoming the first country in the world to legalise marijuana (cannabis). The lower house of Congress voted on party lines, by 50 to 46, to approve a bill [...]
With 50 out of 96 votes, Uruguay’s lower chamber of parliament passed a law for the regulation, sale and control of marijuana, with debate on the law to be continued in the upper chamber. The executive branch also aims to regulate the consumption and distribution of alcohol. […]
Alongside the launch of the Project for the Competitiveness of the Beef Chain, an agreement was signed at the Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (Spanish acronym MGAP) aiming to strengthen Uruguay’s beef production chain by integrated use of beef production information (individual traceability and black boxes) and genomic selection tools. In the context [...]
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly is the creative force behind 432 Park Avenue, a slim, 1396-foot high, 96-floor building in the very heart of Manhattan, which on completion will be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. The luxury residential building will reach for the skies with the signature of Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, the [...]
Business development incentives attracting major international retail groups Uruguay has moved up the table in a global ranking of attractiveness for the retail sector, taking the third spot and pushing China down into fourth place. Business development incentives in the sector come in a context of foreign capital and brands arriving in the country, alongside [...]
An ecological social platform. That’s the dream behind Greentizen, a project to promote “green actions” spearheaded by business leaders and executives such as Nicolás Jodal (CEO of Artech), Pablo Brenner (CEO of Globant Uruguay), Gabriel Colla (Chairman of Infocorp), Sergio Fogel (founder of Uniotel), Sylvia Chebi, and Pablo Marqués (CEO of Punto Ogilvy). “These are [...]
It has height of 180 meters which equivalent to a 60 floor building and involved an investment of U.S. $ 5 million. This Tuesday was presented the largest crane with a maximum height of 180 meters which equivalent to a 60 floor building and has a capacity of 650 tons. The machine was acquired by [...]
He was selected from over 4,000 people around the world, along with 79 other people, to attend Singularity University. His goal: to have a positive impact on a billion people. Maximiliano Perez, 32, from Cerro Chato, Paysandu, departs today for the mecca of entrepreneurs and technological innovation – Silicon Valley. There he will face one [...]
