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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Posted in Government, laws, initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, leisure activities, living and working in Uruguay OnUruguay’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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Posted in Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, Punta del Este OnWhen 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…
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Posted in Agri-Business, Business events, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, property related, Punta del Este, real estate, Tourist attraction OnUruguay 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…
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Posted in Agri-Business, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, real estate OnThe 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…
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Posted in Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay OnUruguay 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…
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Posted in Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay OnStricken 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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Posted in Government initiatives, Government, laws, initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, property related, vivir y trabajar en Uruguay OnUruguay now belongs to the elite of 42 countries on the global stage that appears to win the battle against the advance of the corona virus. That is the news coming out of the institute of scientific research in Cambridge Mass. USA. The current statistic tells us that Uruguay has had a total of…
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Posted in Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations OnUruguay will face crucial days for its future. Congress will decide whether the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC), which includes more than 501 articles, a major state reform, and a tightening of the criminal code, will be approved. Uruguayan President Lacalle Pou is definitely going against the South American status quo: the size of the…
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Posted in Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, Punta del Este, real estate OnUruguay enjoys one of the highest broadband penetration rates in Latin America, and the second highest fixed-line teledensity rate after Costa Rica. Mobile penetration is the second highest after Panama. In terms of computer penetration, Uruguay tops all other countries in the region by a considerable margin, and this has facilitated growth in fixed-line broadband…
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Posted in Investments in Uruguay, Laws and Regulations, living and working in Uruguay, Punta del Este OnUruguay is one of the most welcoming countries in Latin America. Its reputation stems from its amenability to accepting diversity and allowing it to thrive. Over here, you will find people freely expressing their identities and participating in local public events to engage with others. What makes the country all the more accessible to people…
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