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. …
Read MoreUruguay is warding off the coronavirus pandemic better than other Latin American nations. The country’s low population density and a robust health care system are big factors in its success. Latin America has been in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic for weeks. Along with the United States, the region forms the epicenter of the global…
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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 Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, living and working in Uruguay, Tourist attraction OnUruguay 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 MoreThis 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,…
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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 Literature & Arts OnPHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR and LATIN AMERICA PROFESSIONAL AWARD WINNER Pablo Albarenga, Uruguay © Pablo Albarenga, Uruguay, Photographer of the Year, Sony World Photography Awards 2020 Seeds of Resistance is a body of work that pairs photographs of landscapes and territories in danger from mining and agribusinesses with portraits of the activists fighting to conserve them. Pablo explores…
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Posted in Government initiatives, Investments in Uruguay, living and working in Uruguay OnPeruvian 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…
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