Thursday, August 31, 2006

News stories about Uruguay

* In an op/ed piece from yesterday’s Miami Herald, the vice president of the Council of the Americas highlights Uruguay as underrated by Washington policymakers and that it would behoove the Bush administration to seek a free trade deal with that country.

* Larry Rohter in today’s New York Times shines a positive light on President Tabaré Vásquez by noting how he continues working in his original career as an oncologist in spite of his presidential duties. (Registration required).

* Uruguay’s trade deficit was over quarter billion dollars during first half of 2006, which is less than some of most of its Mercosur partners.

* Not happy with a recent International Court of Justice verdict in Uruguay’s favor, environmental activists from Argentina have traveled to Finland in the hope of halting mill construction near the Uruguay-Argentina border.

* Uruguayan officials are worried that neo-Nazis may purchase remnants of a Nazi World War II battleship being raised near Montevideo’s harbor.

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