by Gabriela | Mar 20, 2017 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Trade Shows, Uruguay
Uruguay is a small country for South American standards, roughly the size of England and Wales combined. Compare its 176,215 km2 to Argentina’s 2,780,400 km2 and you’ll soon be wondering why Uruguay appears in so many agricultural world rankings. 93% of the country’s...
by Gabriela | Mar 13, 2017 | Uruguay
An article in national newspaper El País, highlighted recently the “eternal” failure of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Uruguay. The PPP law, approved by a consensus of political parties and destined to help solve the country’s infrastructure problems, has...
by Gabriela | Jan 15, 2017 | Uruguay
This month I celebrate four years since I returned to my home country, Uruguay, after 13 wonderful years in the UK. The reasons for the return were personal, but I can see how it made business sense, too. Since I’ve been back in Latin America, I’ve been able to offer...
by Gabriela | Dec 1, 2016 | Doing business, Uruguay
#LaBajada is proving again a powerful hashtag on Twitter here in Uruguay. This article is all about explaining what it means – and why it should matter to you as a UK exporter. We need some context first. In South America, particularly in the Southern Cone (I can...
by Gabriela | Oct 2, 2016 | Energy, mining & infrastructure, Uruguay
Uruguay is to invest up to USD 400m in infrastructure work, reported El País last week. Between 2016 and 2107, Uruguay’s “Transport and Public Works” Minister, Víctor Rossi, estimates that around 132 infrastructure projects will take place involving 5,857km of...
by Gabriela | Sep 26, 2016 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Trade Shows, Uruguay
It’s been a busy few weeks full of trade shows in Latin America. I’ve shared with you some notes and pictures from the rural shows in Argentina (also from a not-that-unrelated food processing show there) and Paraguay, and my native Uruguay couldn’t...
