Mujica expects a solution to pulp mill conflict with Argentina by next March

Tuesday, January 26th 2010 - 08:53 UTC

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Uruguay’s president-elect Jose Mujica said that the long standing conflict over the Botnia pulp mill, which has soured relations with neighbouring Argentina, will inevitably be solved but he will only be meeting with Argentine authorities and not with the pickets who are blocking bridges leading to Uruguay. Read full article

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No matter what The Hague may dictate about contamination levels or whatever, the main problem lies in that Uruguay planted this pulp-mill on one side of a co-owned river without the necessary previous acceptance of the other side. This enraged a great number of Argentinians who live on their side of the river who claim that their waters and beaches are ruined by chemical contamination and, unless the Botnia plant is relocalised ( something that seems rather impossible), it is my humble opinion that the conflict will not be solved and the roads won't be open to traffic in either direction. Presidents might well try to force blockers to leave the roads and bridges, even with the use of police and the military, but I'm afraid that such moves will prove innefective, they will create more tension and, perhaps, night raids to plant three-pronged nails on the tarmac, stone-throwing at windshields and a number of other guerilla-type hot retaliation. I other words, we innocent travelers are stuck between two solid walls built by the social blindness of a government that did and of another that did not.
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