Uruguay’s prime beach resort of Punta del Este. Thanks to a large testing and contact tracing program, most of Uruguay’s schools, restaurants and sports clubs have reopened after closing at the start of the pandemic. …
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Bienes raíces a medida
Bienes raíces a medida
Bienes raíces a medida
When some 250,000 students returned to classrooms in Montevideo at the end of June, Uruguay reached a post-COVID-19 normalization milestone that is still a distant aspiration for most of Latin America. While the virus still rages on throughout the Americas, Uruguay’s daily count of new cases had been in the single digit for most days…
Read More Uruguay is the smallest Spanish speaking country in South America with 3,5 million inhabitants and is sandwiched between its giant neighbours Brazil and Argentina. The country with its European heritage has traditionally been more affluent than other states in South America and is known for its advanced education and social security systems and…
Read More Uruguay makes positive international headlines again: The European Union has declared Uruguay the only country in the whole of Latin America to which it opens its borders from July with the reinstallation of some flights into the EU. This week sees the slow reopening of the air corridor to Europe with Iberia and Air Europe…
Read More This year marks a turning point for the wineries in Uruguay. According to the milling data recorded by the National Institute of Viticulture, 159 vineyards harvested 93.492.254 kilos of grapes, an almost 11 % increase from 2019. Experts say that the harvest was exceptional not only in quantity, but above all for its outstanding quality,…
Read More The government of President Lacalle Pou is cutting real estate investment requirement by a hooping 77% from 1st July. The degree will soon make Uruguay therefore even more welcoming to wealthy foreigners looking for a new home following a presidential decree that makes it cheaper to obtain tax residency in the South American country. Starting in…
Read More Uruguay and Chile are the two Latin American countries most capable of combating corruption according to the newly published Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index which placed Bolivia and Venezuela at the bottom of the list. Uruguay Scored 1.21 points above the next runner up, Chile, CCC index’s scale. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) The Index was…
Read More Peruvian writer and novelist (with Spanish nationality) Mario Vargas Llosa dedicated a column in the Spanish newspaper El País to Uruguay and its fight against the virus that caused a global pandemic. In his column, Vargas Llosa highlights Uruguay’s “efficient way” against COVID-19 and wonders why nothing has been published about it. In this…
Read More Latin America has become the new center of spread for the COVID-19 pandemic. Distressing images from Guayaquil and Manaus are met with riots in Santiago, Chile and the empty thoroughfares of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Today, most of the continent lives under strict quarantine. Uruguay is an exception, with the country seeing the shallowest decline in mobility in Latin America. Only weeks into office, President Lacalle…
Read More Stricken neighbours take note – Uruguay has not only contained the outbreak, it has done so without a lockdown, harsh quarantines or heavy-handed policing. As the novel coronavirus cyclones through Latin America, it has staggered almost every nation. So how to explain Uruguay? Its infection rate of 2.1 cases per million inhabitants is the second…
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