Uruguay’s colorful president, José Mujica, was caught speaking making a candid, and decidedly undiplomatic observations by a hot mic, regarding Argentina’s president and her late husband, during a radio interview on April the 4th. Tensions between Argentina and Uruguay have been on the rise, due to protectionist rules put in place by Cristina Fernández, intended…
Uruguay is a tiny nation on the Atlantic sandwiched between a behemoth to the north (Brazil), and Argentina to the south. Argentina has twelve times the population of Uruguay, sitting on a land mass fifteen times larger. And so, the decision last Monday by the government of Cristina Fernández in Argentina to raise taxes on most tourism…
That Juan Peron was a fascist is debatable; that his policies were damaging to Argentina’s economy is not. Therefore, the decision to honor his wife on the country’s largest banknote may be surprising to observers, especially given recent inflation, and concerns about a stagnating economy. Sitting Argentine President Cristina Fernandez’s policies have been described as…
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