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Welcome to Montevideo: Uruguay’s capital moves to its own beat

Welcome to Montevideo: Uruguay’s capital moves to its own beat

A Saturday afternoon in Montevideo’s old town feels like the first scene of post-apocalypse movie 28 Days Later. The rows of 19th-century townhouses look abandoned, with some of the windows concreted up and plants growing through the balconies. You peer down an empty...
Uruguay in Three Places: Tourism for Everybody

Uruguay in Three Places: Tourism for Everybody

Soccer, marihuana. These are some of the most-mentioned elements when you ask a tourist to name Uruguay’s most distinctive features over the past years. But when it comes to visiting the country in summertime, there are some bastions that have positioned Uruguay for...
Eight Startups That Have Made the Uruguayan Ecosystem Fashionable

Eight Startups That Have Made the Uruguayan Ecosystem Fashionable

Uruguay is an emerging technology and innovation center that is being watched with great interest throughout the region. The impulse of a growing number of entrepreneurs and government initiatives such as the National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII) have...
Startup Stories: Flokzu, A Cloud Solution to Automate Workflows

Startup Stories: Flokzu, A Cloud Solution to Automate Workflows

Our startup stories are this week focused on Flokzu, an Uruguayan startup that proposes solution on the cloud to automate collaborative workflows. In less than a year and half, over 4,000 organizations from all continents have subscribed to this startup. Its customers...
Uruguay – heaven for meat eaters, hell for vegetarians

Uruguay – heaven for meat eaters, hell for vegetarians

It is not easy being a vegetarian in Uruguay – one of the largest exporters of meat in the world. “In Uruguay, they laugh at vegetarians, they think we are weird,” says Laura Lacurcia, with a sigh. The South American country has a peculiar claim to fame – it has three...