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News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: Uruguay to be miked for security reasons

News channel or source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/09/30/uruguay-to-be-miked-for-security-reasons

Published on: Friday 29 September 2023

Uruguay's Ministry of the Interior will deploy microphones in public places to capture loud sounds such as gunshots to help geolocate incidents, it was reported Friday in Montevideo. The agency has ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: USCGC Stone Arrives in Montevideo, Uruguay, for Scheduled Visit

News channel or source: https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/maritime-security/uscgc-stone-arrives-in-montevideo-uruguay-for-scheduled-visit/

Published on: Thursday 23 February 2023

USCGC Stone (WMSL 758) personnel launch a 25-foot over the horizon small boat during a drill in the Southern Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 7, 2023.Stone is on a scheduled multi-mission deployment in the South ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: Bullrich arrives in Uruguay criticising cannabis legalisation and calling for tougher security policy

News channel or source: https://en.mercopress.com/2026/04/23/bullrich-arrives-in-uruguay-criticising-cannabis-legalisation-and-calling-for-tougher-security-policy

Published on: Wednesday 22 April 2026

Argentine Senator Patricia Bullrich, former National Security Minister under President Javier Milei, will visit Montevideo this week to take part in the conference “Uruguay, future and youth: current ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: Deadly prison fire could boost efforts to resolve overcrowding, security in Uruguay

News channel or source: https://www.foxnews.com/world/deadly-prison-fire-could-boost-efforts-to-resolve-overcrowding-security-in-uruguay

Published on: Thursday 08 July 2010

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay – MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Twelve inmates burned to death in an overcrowded prison on Thursday, just as Uruguay's congress is debating a law to put the army in charge of prison ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: IAEA completes nuclear security mission in Uruguay

News channel or source: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/IAEA-completes-nuclear-security-mission-in-Uruguay

Published on: Sunday 24 November 2019

Uruguay has a well-established nuclear security regime that incorporates essential elements of the International Atomic Energy Agency's guidance of the fundamentals of nuclear security, an IAEA team ...

News Uruguay » Montevideo » Security: Uruguay president's ex-security boss jailed in passports for Russians scam

News channel or source: https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20230215-uruguay-president-s-ex-security-boss-jailed-in-passports-for-russians-scam

Published on: Wednesday 15 February 2023

Montevideo (AFP) – The former security chief to Uruguay's president was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison, the prosecutor's office announced, in a scandal involving the issuing of ...