Uruguay is the latest Latin American country to consider blocking the domains of internationally licensed online gambling operators.

This week, Fernando Serra, a tax advisor to Uruguay’s Ministry of Economy and Finance, told El Observador that the government was wrestling with how to tax new digital services like Netflix or Spotify. As part of that discussion, Serra said that the government was “beginning to study the possibility” of drafting legislation that would allow local authorities to block the “signals of the online game.”

Not for nothing, but Serra’s comments came just two weeks after National Party deputy Jorge Gandini publicly railed against a Uruguyan football team playing a match while wearing shirts emblazoned with online bookmaker Sportingbet’s logo. In case you hadn’t grasped this fact already, online gambling is illegal in Uruguay.

Uruguay’s increasing hostility toward international online gambling sites follows the recent announcement by Colombia’s Coljuegos gambling regulator that it had begun blocking some of the 325 domains on its online blacklist. Coljuegos president Juan Pérez Hidalgo said this week that up to 80 sites were now being given the digital heave-ho.