Mujica promises to “fight to the death” for the future of Mercosur
Uruguayan president Jose Mujica promised on Monday to ‘fight to the death’ for the future of Mercosur in spite of the fact that the group’s junior members Uruguay and Paraguay are suffering the most as Argentina and Brazil implement growing hurdles to trade.
“Our Mercosur has some contradictions, which we don’t respect much and criticize everyday, but heaven help us if it didn’t exist!” he said in a speech he gave at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Inter-American Development Bank in Montevideo.
“Who would we be selling these little cars we assemble to? We’d be selling them to Germany or the US,” he asked, in reference to the auto assembly lines set up in Uruguay with Chinese funds that dealt with their share of trouble last year due to the new Brazilian trading restrictions.
“What would I say to our biggest privately-owned corporation, (dairy company) Conaprole? ‘You have lost Brazil, your biggest market, because we’re now selling to the world’,” he added.
Mujica said “the big countries in Latin America must understand that they also need us, the small guys. And they have to accept it humbly. You can’t go around merrily playing with fiscal issues, and with inflation”.
“The Mercosur defects are our defects and we will fight them to the death without compromising and without giving up; nobody is going to give us prosperity, we have to fight for it,” he concluded.
The day before Economy minister Fernando Lorenzo warned that “protectionism is the important threat for sustained growth and for regional integration. The advance of trade protectionism in our main partners is very bad news for Uruguay”.
Mujica insisted that the Mercosur region has to fight its “pains and sorrows, while negotiating and fighting so its small industries can have a market” to do business.
The Uruguayan head of state also urged for an increase in multilateral collaboration with other member countries in areas such as energy, education and investigation.
President Mujica statements come in a time in which the Uruguayan opposition, as well as the country’s business leaders, has criticized his government for an alleged lack of response to the new trade blocks applied by Argentina and Brazil.
According to the latest stats from the Union of Exporters, Uruguay’s sales to Argentina plummeted 46.61% during February and 1.200 workers have been sent to unemployment insurance. Industries most affected are metal, clothing, printing, paper and pulp and plastic, plus vehicles and auto parts.
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Idiom
a) to engage in a battle that isn't finished until one opponent is dead.
b) to turn around and offer up your arse to your neighbour in order to be routinely sodomised, and love every minute of it.
I guess Mujica is going with definition two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyPC0SD0PGw
It is very easy to condemn Pepe for failing to cut the head off the Mad Bitch and for standing up to Brasil's trade rules (in response to the Mad Bitch), BUT I will ask you all just one question:
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
Considerations - 4.5M pop in Uruguay;
NO unique products of any sort that are rabidly in demand world-wide.
I look forward to your positive answers (no Conqueroresque ones please).
Just continue to do what your nation has experience in and aim to do it better than others in the region. Go for quality rather than quantity to attract premium prices.
Therein lies the problem.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117093/Secret-files-reveal-9-000-Nazi-war-criminals-fled-South-America-WWII.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
What's that got to do with ethnicity? furktard.
The books says like you...in reality ? ...I doubt on it ..
Ethnicity?..the discussion focus will be different if you are Jew,......
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9136145/War-criminal-Joseph-Lissa-wins-right-to-stay-in-Britain.html
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-britain-a-safe-haven-for-war-criminals-1936707.html
jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/2011/09/uk-now-safe-haven-for-war-criminals.html
www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/8132550/Secret-papers-reveal-Nazis-given-safe-haven-in-US.html
You are indeed a society of a bunch of Bastards and Execrables. :(
Do you have any independent sources and documents ?
The Soviet Union would have landed first on the moon if it wasn't for the good ol USA getting into bed with the Nazis. It should have been Swastika and not the stars and stripes there, would have only been fair.
So tobias, you're in Le Camping, so tell us... where did the $2.1 Billion go that Maximo's Hitler Youth were given to renew your airline fleet go?
Did it go on electoral fraud, like everyone is suggesting? or did it go into a numbered swiss bank account? or just down the sofa?
I'm just responding tit-for-tat, as I'm left with no other option. I'm not insulting anyone, I'm just posting links, if they are inconvenient or make some feel ackward that is not my problem. Maybe some just need to face history instead of romantic notions of chivalric nationalism.
They still don't admit they caused the war in 1982 and get horribly upset that someone even thought about sinking their ship.
You read la Nacion and it calls argentina sponsored international terrorists, the Condors, 'Protagonists'... the positivity of terror in their eyes.
You don't need to post links about nazis and criminals in the UK, we're perfectly capable of introspection here. We all know and admit what's furked up, unlike in Argentina where you can lose $2.1 Billion and no one bats an eyelid.
BTW, I don't see the British people taking blame for the 500,ooo dead in Iraq since the country was “preemtively invaded” (think about that concept, preemtive invasion, for a moment), to dispose of weapons that not only never existed, but a war justified with outright confabulated documents and dossiers.
2.1 billion?
edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.audit/
www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20070981-503543.html
And that is chump changed compared to numbers being tossed about regarding the Bush presidency bank bailout. Some say hundreds of billions are unnacounted for.
GreekYoghurt Yes, we cannot be all things to everyone. On your second response, do your really, really, think that ANY agreement with compensation from Argentina is EVER going to be honoured - what about the Paris Club?
yankeeboy Yes, I agree that we need to stop trading with Argentina. The missed opportunity about the banks was also astute. A very good point about the relationship with the USA however.
MANY THANKS TO THOSE WHO RESPONDED
Your grandfather to keep free Europe from Nazism ( correct grammer)
where front ? OR where back ?
Tell me to ask you anythings.....
( 26 )
Interesting that what a fast writing in 10 minutes mixed with searching these two links and writing this comment time ,if this is not planned before to compacting comment serials.
Are you searching your grandfather to ask where he had made war !
Get over it.
Argieland - Implosion in less than 5 years. Explosion if it thinks it can beat/cow Britain.
@9 Try this. Uruguay is recognised as being the most economically-advanced countries in South America. It has a high Human Development Index. It has low levels of corruption. If it didn't have a peasant president it could go far. Request British support. Be free!
@17 But you haven't, wog!
@20 A thought. Have you tried intelligence? Rationality? A brain?
@22 At least the UK and Us have better populations. Argies, all argies, are necrophiliac, genocidal, homosexual animals, thieves and murderers.
@24 Brain-dead necrophiliac, arse-licking, sh*tter. Suck it up!
@26 Strange! I don't see Iraqi casualties getting as far as 29,000. Is there a propaganda difference? Ever thought we'd be better if you were dead?
Mastica ...Mastica...
Inform me when your brain at work ( if you have it !) rather than
your belt open down..
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