As treaty meetings open, Big Tobacco’s bullying looms

"Success hinges on treaty financing, limiting industry interference"PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUGUAY: A weeklong treaty meetings commenced on 15 November 2010 as an industry prohibited from participating attempts to influence its outcomes from the outside looking in. Philip Morris...

FIFA World Cup 2010 (Dispatches From The Couch)

Ah, The World Cup... Every 4 years the world watches to see what country will step up and grab the FIFA Winner's Cup. It is a solid month of breath holding, grimace inducing, fist pumping, nail biting and in the...

Netherlands shoot down La Celeste in 5 goal World Cup Semi Final

Woof! That was tight at the end. Uruguay just about nicked a draw as the ref took four and a half minutes to play 3 minutes of injury time at the end. After Van Bronckhorsts screaming 41 yard goal opened the...

Human rights Chair & Mjr. Opitz congratulate Argentina in Toronto

Roger Nair, Esq. (left), HE Julio Miller, Mjr. Ted Opitz (Right) 25th May, TorontoSAHRA chair, & film maker Roger Nair, attended the 200th  Anniversary of the " First Independent Government in Buenos...

a curious roll cloud appears in the sky of Uruguay

Maldonado, Uruguay - A type of cloud has rarely appeared in the sky over the beach of Las Olas in early JanuaryIt was a roller-type arcus cloud or roll cloud, a phenomenon so rare that NASA has done while his picture of the day on its site internet.ca cloud, as its name...

"Ataque de Panico" - YouTube Video Leads to $30 million Contract

A short video that was posted on YouTube gained increadible recognition and earned its creater Fede Alvarez a $30 million Hollywood contract to produce a new Science Fiction movie.  The short film is under 5...

Uruguay Allows Same-Sex Adoption, First in Latin America

Same-sex couples in Uruguay will be able to adopt children as the bill was approved by the country's senate. This change means that Uruguay has become the first country in Latin America that allows same-sex couples to adopt children. For a long time, Uruguay has held a...

Uruguayan Writer Mario Benedetti Dies At 88

Famous Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti passed away from liver failure at the age of 88 on Sunday. Benedetti was know as one of Latin America’s most influential writers, having had authored numerous novels, poems, short stories and plays, among them “The Truce”, “Left...

Fork Required: Celebrate National Gnocchi Day in Your Home

John Travolta may have said it best in the movie, Pulp Fiction, “It’s the little differences…” One of the things that makes travel enlightening (whether it’s a trip from Charleston, SC to Asheville,...

China handles control of Satellite to Venezuela

Caracas, Venezuela, 10 January 2009. In an official ceremony at "El Sombrero" - Guarico state -, Chinese officials handled the full control of Simon Bolivar satelite to Venezuelan officials. The...

Brazilian Deputies approved Venezuelan Mercosur entry

Despite the massive approval of the Venezuelan entry at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, conservatives at the senate led by José Agripino Maia and Sergio Guerra have promised to block the approving...

Uruguay head vetoes abortion bill

Despite polls that suggested a majority of Uruguayans favoured easing their country's restrictions on abortion, President Tabare Vazquez vetoed a bill to decriminalise it in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Just few days ago, the Abortion Bill was approved...

Senate 'ends' Uruguay abortion ban

Abortion is now in the political agenda of Uruguay. As Congress approved - by a small margin- a bill to decriminalise it in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, President Tabare Vazquez has the last word. Some believe Vazquez might veto the new bill after receiving...

Jewel in the Crown of Southwest France? Domaine du Moulie Madiran

Jewel in the Crown of Southwest France Appellations is what Wine Online Ireland calls the Domaine du Moulie Madiran 2003. I bought the 2004 Vintage?Where is Madiran you might ask?Nearby Armagnac in the Gers.The grape is Tannat which has now become popular in Uruguay.It is...

Brazil gets nuke submarine through French connection

Brazilian longings for a nuclear sub has gone for decades. Now and with the assistance of France, it would be able to make such project true. Brasilia expects to sign a military...

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