Tickets to Pilsen Rock festival are being sold

This Thursday Tickets to the seventh edition of the Pilsen Rock started to be sold. This year the festival will be held in Montevideo, offering some shows in the Teatro de Verano and the Rural del Prado with the distinguished presence of the American band Pixies in the opening show, together with Buenos Muchachos.

On Saturday 16th October, the Rural del Prado will be the stage for a day of pure rock and roll. The Californian band Queens of the Stone Age will play in Uruguay for the first time together with Los Violadores, Andrés Calamaro, No Te Va Gustar and Hereford, among others.

Aside from the change of venue, there are other new incorporations this year such as an opening show on 7th October in the Teatro de Verano, which will have the presence of the American band Pixies and Buenos Muchachos.

Prices: General tickets for the Rural del Prado 16th October: $400 pesos until 10/09. After the 11/09 and until the 20/09 the price will be $500 and after the 21/9 the price will be $600

Tickets to the opening show in Teatro de Verano on 7th October will be $600 for seats at the top and $900 for seats at the bottom.

Those who want a seat in both shows have access to a special Price: $800 (tops seats in Teatro de Verano and general seats in Rural del Prado. Tickets are available in all the Abitab stores around the country.

 

Repercussions of Real Madrid-Peñarol

The Spanish media didn’t give the match between Peñarol and real Madrid much importance. While Marca said that “Uruguayans, faithful to their roots, managed to make football dirty”, As  considers that Uruguayans have “something when they dress up for football, something magical that connects them to their ancestors even if, in contrast with the classics, they are mortal souls that are easily forgettable”.

As considered that “Peñarol left Bernabeu with their dignity intact,” and concluded: “in general lines and in order to explain the match, we could say that Madrid didn’t have the competitive gene of the Uruguayans”.

Real Madrid’s coach, José Mourinho highlighted that “it had been a very real training” since in the Spanish League “many teams play like Peñarol: closed in the back and waiting for the right moment to come out with a counterattack and positive aggressiveness”.

Tomás Roncero, one of the Real Madrid specialists in As wrote an editorial that commented that his father had been disappointed since he had gone to the stadium with his mother and nephews in order to commemorate “those good old times” 50 years after the first Intercontinental Final.

“One day he told me that those first ten minutes against Peñarol with 125,000 spectators in the stadium had been the best moment ever. “Puskas scored two and Di Stefano another one. You couldn’t play better. I called him after the match and he explained “Tomás, this is like life. Accept what you get and look at the bright side: Madrid won the match, just like that time”. “

Finally Marcelo Sosa earned a paragraph of his own: “This Sosa is quite a character, yesterday he said he was going to mess Cristiano’s hairdo, and in the mid field he accomplished his prophecy”

 

Garbage recollection starts to get back on track.

Andrés Martirena, director of cleaning in the city hall, confirmed to Montevideo Portal that CAP workers will go back to a normal recollection of rubbish in the downtown area, cleaning the more “complicated” roads such as Ejido.

Rubbish was a relevant topic in Montevideo this week since a good part of the downtown and old city area had eviden recollection problems due to a union conflict in CAP, the company in charge of cleaning these areas.

CAP workers finally managed to reach an agreement with the company and finished syndical measures so the situation is starting to go back to normal in the city.

The situation went back to normal after the company “took back the employees they had fired” and decided to “pay for half of the days missed” with the strike, explained Oscar Granja, one of the workers.

The final agreement will be evaluated next Monday in a three party meeting in the headquarters of the Ministry of Work.

Granja told Montevideo Portal that activities would be resumed only on Thursday since additional strikes of COFE and ADEOM were being held, and a lot of CAP workers had decided to adhere to this strike too.

Martinena, however, assured Montevideo Portal that workers had already normalized the most critical situations as far as the amount of rubbish was concerned. He claimed that the area was “controlled” in the downtown and old city area that had experimented most of the problems. 

Martinena explained that the workers had made a “commitment to catch up with the cleaning between yesterday and today, and I think they’re doing a good job” although he did admit that he hadn’t been able to go to the area to prove for himself if it was clean.

 

Timerman and Almagro, in Montevideo and Buenos Aires

Argentine Minister of foreign affairs, Héctor Timerman said that before Monday he would announce the members of the Argentine scientific committee that will monitor UMP and Río Uruguay. Timmerman announced that he would visit Montevideo that day, to meet Luis Almagro his Uruguayan counterpart, although there might also be another meeting in Buenos Aires during the week.
 
“I’m travelling to MVD on Monday, before that we’ll announce the members of the Argentine Scientific Committee that will monitor Botnia and Río Uruguay,” was Timerman’s tweet, in what can be interpreted as a confirmation of the meeting which Almagro had announced the day before.

Almagro explained yesterday that his meeting with Timerman has the objective of following up on issues that were dealt with in Anchorena. In a radio interview Almagro clarified that his meeting would be “technical”.

“We have to define aspects of how we can resume the agenda we had of more than 20 issues” that were put forth in the first meeting that was held in the presidential farm together with Presidents Mujica and Fernandez.

Assembly members back on the route

José Pouler, Gualeguaychú assembly member explained that activists were protesting “without road blocks” in spite of what had been announced in the press after the assembly meeting on Wednesday.

“We’re only protesting, not blocking” said Pouler, who added that there was an “unsolved problem, the conflict is not over”.

 

President Mujica excluded articles 3 and 4 of the expiration law from the investigation of the physical disappearance of Julio Castro.

According to Alberto Breccia in the afternoon of the 18th of August president Mujica signed the decree which excludes the case of Julio Castro from the expiration law. The request had been made by family members in December of last year.

Julio Castro was a prominent teacher whose efforts were focused on rural education. He was also founder of weekly newspaper Marcha, led by journalist Carlos Quijano. Castro was arrested on 1st August in 1977.

Flavio Tavarez Freitas, a Brazilian journalist assured that he was arrested in the clandestine center “La Casona” together with Castro, and it is believed that Castro died on August 3rd in 1977 due to the wounds caused by torture.

"In my desperation as a wife with no news from my husband I’m writing to request, with all due respect, an interview. It has been 57 days since my husband’s disappearance, I haven’t received any communications and none of my communications with the authorities have been answered. My husband is Julio Castro, teacher in school Sanguinetti. I am sure you must remember him for his exceptional warmth just as Julio Castro always remembers you as the young school boy” says a letter sent by Zaira Gamundi in October 1977 to the Dictator Gregorio Alvarez , published by the website Red Latina Sin Fronteras.